StopGettingSick TeamConsidering Complementary and Alternative Medicine Therapies? What is Complementary and Alternative Medicine? How Can I Find More Information about Complementary and Alternative Medical Practices? How Can I Find a...
Considering CAM?
Approaching Complementary and Alternative Therapies Assess the Safety and Effectiveness of the Therapy Examine the Practitioner’s Expertise Consider the Service Delivery Consider the Costs Consult Your Healthcare...
An FDA Guide to Choosing Medical Treatments
by Isadora B. Stehlin FDA Consumer Medical treatments come in many shapes and sizes. There are “home remedies” shared among families and friends. There are prescription medicines, available only from a...
How to Approach Alternative Therapies
The NIH Office of Alternative Medicine recommends the following before getting involved in any alternative therapy: Obtain objective information about the therapy. Besides talking with the person promoting the approach...
NIH Funds Botanical Center in Iowa to Study Health Effects of Echinacea and St. John’s Wort
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS), components of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today announced a 5-year, $6 million grant for the...
Some Turning to Hindu Breathing Technique
By BETH DUFF-BROWN Associated Press Writer (AP) NEW DELHI It seemed odd to me that one would need lessons in how to breathe. Yet people worldwide are turning to the intensive Art of Living course on lowering stress and...
Electroacupuncture Trial is NCCAM’s First Intramural Study
June 12, 2002 The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) has launched a clinical trial of electroacupuncture to determine if it reduces the delayed nausea experienced by cancer patients...
Garlic Supplements Can Impede HIV Medication
Researchers have found garlic supplements can cause a potentially harmful side effect when combined with a type of medication used to treat HIV/AIDS. Investigators from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) observed...
Meditation Helping Arthritis Patients
By ALEX DOMINGUEZ Associated Press Writer (AP) BALTIMORE Dalia Isicoff knows pain. A lifelong sufferer of rheumatoid arthritis, she has had seven hip replacement surgeries. Since leaving the hospital in February...
Norwegian Fish Medicine Works Miracles on Humans
You May Never Be Sick Again– By RALPH WALLACE, Contributing Writer Tromsø — It has given hope where no hope was thought possible. People with almost every known health problem seem to benefit from it. Even...
Vaccines
What exactly is a vaccination and how does it work? Find everything you need to know about vaccinations and how they fight diseases in adults and children. Vaccine-Preventable Childhood Diseases We have record or near...
Diseases of the Immune System
Read about HIV infection, AIDS, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases. AIDS and the Immune System STATEMENT OF JOHN Y. KILLEN, M.D. DIRECTOR DIVISION OF ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME...
Tips
Find out what you can do every day to make your Immune System as strong as it can be! Boosting the Immune System Question: As a biology teacher at Hoffman Estates High School I asked my junior and senior students to...
Boost Your Immunity
Nutrition is one of the best ways to enhance active immunity to keep your body healthy and strong. Read about certain immune-boosting foods, vitamins and supplements that increase your odds of staying healthy. Feed Your...
AIDS Related News
Testing Yourself for HIV-1, the Virus that Causes AIDS February 23, 2004 AIDS is a serious disease that can be fatal. You can determine if you are infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus-1 (HIV-1), the virus that...
Immune System Series
Introduction The immune system is a complex network of specialized cells and organs that has evolved to defend the body against attacks by “foreign” invaders. When functioning properly it fights off...
Protection Against Microbes
The body has an arsenal of defenses that it uses to ward off foreign invaders. Healthy immune systems recognize as foreign many things that are not self. Most of the foreign invaders that confront the human immune...
