Alternative Medicine: Expanding Medical Horizons. A Report to the National Institutes of Health on Alternative Medical Systems and Practices in the United StatesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1994 - 372 pages |
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... literature dem- onstrates , can have a powerful positive effect in a wide variety of physical illnesses , from heart disease to cancer , from asthma to strokes . Indeed , one study found that women with breast cancer who took part in a ...
... literature dem- onstrates , can have a powerful positive effect in a wide variety of physical illnesses , from heart disease to cancer , from asthma to strokes . Indeed , one study found that women with breast cancer who took part in a ...
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... literature and Western psychological literature . Published studies have documented reductions in cardio- vascular disease risk factors , including blood pressure , cholesterol , and reaction to stress , in individuals who practice ...
... literature and Western psychological literature . Published studies have documented reductions in cardio- vascular disease risk factors , including blood pressure , cholesterol , and reaction to stress , in individuals who practice ...
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... literature exists analyzing AA . Sev- eral models attempt to explain its success . One popular psychometric model interprets AA as a " cult " and the achievement of sobriety as a " con- version experience . " Another model , however ...
... literature exists analyzing AA . Sev- eral models attempt to explain its success . One popular psychometric model interprets AA as a " cult " and the achievement of sobriety as a " con- version experience . " Another model , however ...
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... literature on the subject and related subjects . Having a central source of information means investiga- tors can go directly to the best and most current research on a topic instead of trying to collect data from disparate sources ...
... literature on the subject and related subjects . Having a central source of information means investiga- tors can go directly to the best and most current research on a topic instead of trying to collect data from disparate sources ...
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... literature on traditional Chinese medicine and Ayurvedic medicine . Research Methodologies No alternative medical system or method should be recommended for inclusion in the medical health system until it has been adequately tested ...
... literature on traditional Chinese medicine and Ayurvedic medicine . Research Methodologies No alternative medical system or method should be recommended for inclusion in the medical health system until it has been adequately tested ...
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Page 130 - As used in this subsection and subsection (e), the term "substantial evidence" means evidence consisting of adequate and well-controlled investigations, including clinical investigations, by experts qualified by scientific training and experience to evaluate the effectiveness of the drug involved, on the basis of which it could fairly and responsibly be, concluded by such experts that the drug will have the effect it purports or is represented to have under the conditions of use prescribed, recommended,...
Page xxxvii - The Constitution of this Republic should make special provision for Medical Freedom as well as Religious Freedom.... To restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are unAmerican and despotic. They are fragments of monarchy and have no place in a Republic.
Page 226 - Nutrition intervention trials in Linxian, China: Supplementation with specific vitamin/mineral combinations, cancer incidence, and disease-specific mortality in the general population.
Page 197 - Relationship between substances in diets low in fat and high in fruits and vegetables and cancer risk. ( 1 ) Cancer is a constellation of more than 100 different diseases, each characterized by the uncontrolled growth and spread of abnormal cells. Cancer has many causes and stages in its development. Both genetic and environmental risk factors may affect the risk of cancer. Risk factors include a family history of a specific type of cancer, cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption, overweight and obesity,...
Page xxxv - Walter Reed Army Institute of Research Walter Reed Army Medical Center Washington, DC 20012 1 Director Walter Reed Army Institute of Res.
Page 238 - Knowledge, attitudes, and behavior related to obesity and dieting in Mexican Americans and Anglos. The San Antonio Heart Study.
Page 230 - Folate, methionine, and alcohol intake and risk of colorectal adenoma, J. Natl. Cancer Inst., 85 (11), 875-884, 1993.
Page 295 - Herbal medicines may contain excipients in addition to the active ingredients. Medicines containing plant material combined with chemically defined active substances, including chemically defined, isolated constituents of plants, are not considered to be herbal medicines.
Page 215 - The goals of the programs are to provide needy persons with access to a more nutritious diet, to improve the eating habits of the Nation's children, and to help America's farmers by providing an outlet for distributing foods purchased under farmer assistance authorities.
Page 33 - RJ, 1990, Marked rapid alterations in nocturnal pineal serotonin metabolism in mice and rats exposed to weak intermittent magnetic fields, Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun., 169:102-104. Lerchl, A., Nonaka, KD, and Reiter, RJ, 1991, Pineal gland "magnetosensitivity" to static magnetic fields is a consequence of induced electric currents (eddy currents), J.