Future doctors expect to sit medicine School courses focused on anatomy and biochemistry. But at many schools, they can also learn about unconventional treatment options like acupuncture, hypnosis, and herbal remedies in courses often categorized as integrative medicine.It is important for future medical students To understand what integrative medicine is, why it’s controversial and how its proponents challenge the standards of the medical profession, some experts say.Integrative medicine combines conventional treatments such as surgery and prescription medications with complementary and alternative medicines such as biofeedback, homeopathy, naturopathy and mindfulness. “I find that most people in any given household, at least…
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WATCH: Michelle Obama through the years michelle obama it’s about once again staying realistic when it comes to taking care of yourself as a woman in today’s world. During a candid question-and-answer session at the 25th anniversary of the Essence Festival in New Orleans On Saturday, the former first lady spoke about how difficult it was for women, including herself, to put yourself first. “Many of us struggle to place ourselves on our own priority list, much less at the top of the list,” she said. “And that’s what happens when it comes to our health as women. We’re so…
While talking about schoolchildren’s mental health issues on “The View,” Dr. Phil abruptly moved from smartphones to protesting Covid shutdowns. The panel on View didn’t seem quite prepared for Dr. Phil sudden and passionate comments on Covid closures, which he considered extremely harmful to schoolchildren, with Sunny accommodation retorting that “they were trying to save their lives.” It started relatively calmly as Dr. Phil and the panel discussed the increase in mental health issues facing school-aged children, like depression and anxiety. He argued that it started around 2008 with the proliferation of smartphones and the advent of social media. Getty/Instagram…
What comes to mind when you think of spring dinner ideas? Maybe a simple and fresh appetizer spring vegetables with bagna cauda? A spring pea pasta recipe with a certain glazed shallots and crusty bread for the main event? Carrot cake for dessert? Whatever your desire, whatever the dish, we imagine it draws on spring produce, because why not? It’s the best, especially after months and months of root vegetables.The main dishes you’ll find below do what we all want, which is to say they contain fresh herbs, asparagus, snow peas, artichokes, leeks, spinach, watercress… It’s almost a shame, the…
A PROUD debate has ignited over the ethics of prescribing alternative therapies that may lack an evidence base. Writing in the “Opposing Opinions” section of MJAProfessor John Dwyer, emeritus professor of medicine at the University of New South Wales, said many alternative therapies are not based in science and it is unethical for doctors to prescribe them in most situations. (1) Consumers are increasingly exposed to “a plethora of absurd (unscientific) claims that waste their money, distract them from effective care strategies, and often cause harm,” he writes. Presenting the opposing view, Dr Marie Pirotta, from the University of Melbourne’s…
Self-care should never be an afterthought, even though modern life offers plenty of excuses to let it fall down our list of priorities. When life gets busy, it’s even more important to prioritize self-care. Holistic life coach and new TCM contributor, Maytal Phillips, shares how self-care isn’t a waste of time, but rather a way to become a more productive, present human being. Find out how this working mom makes room for some much-needed self-love…If you’re like me, you’re obsessed with everything in the holistic/self-improvement/health and wellness space. Self-care has recently become a hot topic discussed as living a better…
The National Medical Commission (NMC) has taken a step forward to combat rising mental health issues among medical students in the country. The NMC has constituted a national task force to understand the factors leading to unfortunate suicides and recommend measures to improve the current situation. According to the press release published on February 21, “Mental health The situation of medical students has been a cause of concern in the recent past, leading to depression and suicide among medical students. To resolve this issue, a national task force has been constituted by the anti-shredding committee of the National Medical Commission…
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Often called “the window to the soul,” the eyes express joy, sadness and fear. The iris is the most obvious element of the external eye, its color being a major factor in ethnic and family identity. In fact, eye color has been the subject of numerous studies by researchers, including geneticist Gregor Mendel. In recent years, naturopaths have renewed their interest in a method of disease recognition based on detailed characteristics of the human iris. Iridology represents the study of carefully mapped sections of the iris and the assigned organ systems represented by these areas.1 Background Iridology, also known as…
As a teenager, I saw many of my peers struggle with mental health issues.A recently released CDC report shows how youth suicide has skyrocketed over the past decade. THE University of Michigan Future Monitoring Project explains how teenage girls are less likely to have physical interactions in the world, given the ease of access to smartphones.”I generally recommend that patients who feel isolated, especially adolescents, choose an activity they can do with a family member as an ongoing ritual,” says Neha Chaudhary, a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and at Harvard Medical School. “It could be eating…