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Older Americans Not Discussing Complementary and Alternative
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, January 18, 2007

In spite of the high use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) among people age 50 or older, 69 percent of those who use CAM do not talk to their doctors about it, according to a new survey conducted by AARP and the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)...
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   ...product cannot lawfully be labeled "organic", unless the farm has been inspected by an agency authorized by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the product meets precise standards. The USDA now owns the word "organic"...
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Bio-morphological rationale for laser stimulation of myofascial trigger points and acupuncture points.
by Alex Tatevian DA and Artem Grush MD, Foundation for Research in Acupuncture & Integrative Medicine; Department of Anesthesia, Harvard School of Medicine.
With various means of point stimulation granting comparable effect, the least invasive techniques appear most attractive. We investigated the effect of Low Energy Lasers (LEL) in MTrP and AP stimulation. LEL's are laser devices in which power densities and energy densities of laser beam are lowered to a point where no photo-thermal effects occur, but the photo-osmotic, photo-ionic, and photo-enzymatic effects are still operative. Penetration of a laser beam into tissues falls off at an exponential fashion...


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