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This will surprise most of us. An Australian study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society finds that adults over 70 who are overweight but not obese are less likely to die in a 10-year period than those with “normal” weight. This may lead to new guidelines on Body Mass Index (BMI) for [...]

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New research adds to the growing body of data indicating that exercise is good for the mind as well as the body. Exercise appears to help prevent and improve mild cognitive impairment, two new studies show.Researchers found that people who did moderate physical activity in midlife or later had a reduced risk of mild cognitive impairment [...]

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A large survey of medical students finds that three quarters of them favor greater integration of complementary and alternative approaches into conventional medicine. In the largest national survey of its kind, researchers from UCLA and UC San Diego measured medical students’ attitudes and beliefs about complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and found that three-quarters of [...]

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The evidence continues to mount that a whole foods diet is a necessary part of health and health care. From Medscape: A traditional or whole diet characterized by vegetables, fruit, whole grains, and high-quality meat and fish may help prevent mental illness — specifically, depression and anxiety. Conversely, a Western diet high in refined or [...]

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A World Health Organization survey confirms that this is a world-wide phenomenon, and not an encouraging one.  The WHO’s use of the word “epidemic” to describe the situation conveys a serious concern that this procedure, life-saving for mother and/or baby when necessary, is drastically overutilized. The boom in unnecessary surgeries is jeopardizing women’s health, the [...]

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A new study from the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, published in The Journal of Clinical Oncology, adds to the growing body of evidence supporting the valiue of acupuncture. A new study provides more evidence that acupuncture can help ease hot flashes in women with breast cancer who are being treated with the “anti-estrogen” drug tamoxifen. Acupuncture, [...]

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New York is a clear national trendsetter on public health issues. Salt, whose damaging effects on high blood perssure have been well-known for decades, is the newest target of Mayor Bloomberg’s health department. Kudos to them! On Monday, the Bloomberg administration plans to unveil a broad new health initiative aimed at encouraging food manufacturers and [...]

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From Germany, a new approach to an old condition — tinnitus, or ringing in the ears. The researchers allowed patients to choose their favorite music, which was then “notched” — a one-octave frequency band, centered on the frequency of the ringing experienced by the subject, was filtered out. The subjects listened to the music on [...]

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Integrative health care pioneer and Huffington Post health editor Dean Ornish has a quick rundown of what he judges to be the top 10 health breakthroughs of the past decade.  Here’s the tenth on the list, angiogenesis: Last year marked the death of Dr. Judah Folkman, whose life’s work transformed our understanding of cancer and [...]

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It’s been said before by many of us. Yet it’s a pleasure to see it said again by someone with a large megaphone. AOL co-founder Steve Case, founder of Revolution Health, in today’s Washington Post: They say in medicine that the real challenge is to get the diagnosis right. If there’s too much focus on [...]

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