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| 2005-03-17 | Healing harmony - MSU music therapy performers prepare for Friday recital
The blended sounds of flute, bassoon, piano and vocal harmonies filled the basement of the Music Practice Building on Wednesday morning as Michelle Knechtges guided a group of students through a song. |
| --The State News, US |
| 2005-03-10 | Meditation May Reduce Heart Disease Risk
Black adolescents with high normal blood pressure who practice transcendental meditation improve the ability of their blood vessels to relax and may reduce their risk of becoming adults with cardiovascular disease, researchers say.
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| --Science Daily, US |
| 2005-03-09 | Bill would decriminalize alternative health practices
A group of Republicans and alternative medicine providers came together Tuesday to introduce a bill to decriminalize alternative medicine in Ohio.
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| --Business Courier, US |
| 2005-03-09 | A Healing Touch
Healing Touch is a holistic therapy using touch to promote health and healing, according to its proponents.
"As a healer we work with the aura which is the energy that is around the body," said Dr. Dorothy Lawse of Mason City, an emergency medical physician and certified Healing Touch practitioner.
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| --Globe Gazette, US |
| 2005-02-15 | Charles's alternative health guide gets official backing
A patient's guide to alternative and complementary treatments published by Prince Charles has received Government approval. |
| --ThisisLondon, UK |
| 2004-04-08 | Buddha's way is best if you want to combat stress
In case more than 20 centuries of gruelling spiritual journeys towards harmony and balance have not persuaded you, scientists have now proved that Buddhist meditation relieves stress. |
| --Times Online, UK |
| 2004-04-08 | Path to health as clear as a crystal
Beautiful it may be, but crystal jewellery is about more than adornment. It's a way of wearing the Earth's curative, energetic properties - if ancient wisdom is anything to go by.
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| --Cape Argus |
| 2004-03-28 | Tai chi infection protection
A new study shows Tai Chi Chih -- a variant form of Tai Chi -- can boost seniors' immunity to the shingles virus. |
| --News 8, Austin, TX |
| 2004-03-26 | Vitamins: Boost for the brain
Increasingly, the kinds of memory problems that have long been seen as inevitable with age are now thought to be avoidableor at least postponable. The more scientists look at the way we age, the more they recognize the value of eating right and exercising regularly. |
| --Psychology Today |
| 2003-02-02 | Glucosamine May Ease Knee Pain
A small study has found that daily doses of glucosamine, a widely available nutritional supplement, reduce discomfort and improve mobility in people with chronic knee pain. |
| --Health Scout |
| 2003-02-02 | 'Good' Fatty Acid for Diabetics
An essential fatty acid called conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) may help people with diabetes reduce their weight and blood sugar. |
| --Health Scout |
| 2002-02-22 | Laughter eases hospital pain
The old adage "laughter is the best medicine" has proved its worth among children coping with pain, research suggests.
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| --BBC News |
| 2002-02-22 | Fish 'reduces premature birth risk'
Eating fish in pregnancy reduces the risk of having a premature birth, scientists have found.
Every year over 13 million babies are born prematurely across the world - many in developing countries.
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| --BBC News |
| 2001-12-24 | Vitamin E could halt Alzheimer's
A daily vitamin E supplement could protect the brain and prevent the onset of diseases such as Alzheimer's, a study suggests. Scientists in Japan discovered it is possible to reverse a degenerative brain disease simply by administering vitamin E.
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| --BBC News |
| 2001-12-24 | Study: Eating More Often Cuts Cholesterol
Eating more often appears to reduce cholesterol levels by five percent, according to a finding in the British Medical Journal. This is associated with reductions in coronary heart disease ranging from 10 percent to 21 percent, say researchers.
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| --BBC News |
| 2001-09-29 | Study: Lean diet may mean long life
It's never too late to cut back on the calories to prolong life, even in your later years, a study involving mice and low-calorie diets indicates.
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| --CNN.com |
| 2001-06-26 | Artist Emerges With Works in a 'Private Language'
Judith Scott, a woman with Down syndrome, who spent decades in institutions, has met some success as a fiber artist, though she does not speak, hear, read or write.
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| --New York Times |
| 2001-04-16 | Link Between REM Sleep and Depression
The search for the genetic roots of depression has led scientists to the bedroom, where they've discovered that people with a particular type of sleep pattern and a family history of depression are twice as likely to become depressed as relatives who don't sleep the same way. The link is true even in family members who have no history of the disease themselves and who feel absolutely fine.
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| --PsychPort |
| 2001-04-16 | The Power of Yoga
It's the exercise cum meditation for the new millennium, one that doesn't so much pump you up as bliss you out. Yoga now straddles the continent — from Hollywood, where $20 million-a-picture actors queue for a session with their guru du jour, to Washington, where, in the gym of the Supreme Court, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and 15 others faithfully take their class each Tuesday morning.
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| --Time, Inc. |
| 2001-04-07 | Specific Focus On "Science-Based Solutions" To Combat Obesity
A proposed national summit on nutrition should have a "narrow, specific, and precise" focus on science-based solutions to combat increasing rates of obesity across the United States, according to the Grocery Manufacturers of America.
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| --GMANews |
| 2001-03-30 | Chinese Herbal Medicine to be Industrialized
To shift the superiority of Chinese Traditional Medicine (CTM) in the cultural aspect into the economical one, the industrialization of the CTM and quickening its pace of technical progress has been listed as a project of key importance in the tenth Five-year Plan.
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| --People's Daily |
| 2001-03-18 | Legumes & Soybeans: Health Boosters!
Legumes play an important role in the traditional diets of many regions throughout the world. In contrast in Western countries beans tend to play only a minor dietary role despite the fact that they are low in fat and are excellent sources of protein, dietary fiber, and a variety of micronutrients and phytochemicals. Soybeans are unique among the legumes because they are a concentrated source of isoflavones. Isoflavones have weak estrogenic properties and the isoflavone genistein influences signal transduction. Soyfoods and isoflavones have received considerable attention for their potential role in preventing and treating cancer and osteoporosis.
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| --American Journal of Clinical Nutrition |
| 2001-03-18 | We Can Control Memory
Two American researchers at the University of Oregon say they have proof that people can influence the content of their memories.
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| --BBC News |
