Articles by Shari Barbanel
NUNM Offers Teach-out, Transfer Agreement for OCOM Students Following Closure Announcement
On May 15, trustees overseeing the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine (OCOM) voted to close the college after 41 years and enter into an agreement with the National University of Natural Medicine (NUNM) to teach OCOM’s third-year students for their final year of classes, offer first- and second-year students the option of a comprehensive credit transfer, ...
CRN Foundation and Members Create Prenatal Nutrition Center
CRN Foundation, the educational arm of the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), along with six member companies created a Prenatal Nutrition Center, which debuted at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) Annual Clinical and Scientific Meeting 2024 in San Francisco, CA. The participating member companies are Balchem, Church & Dwight Co., dsm-firmenich, Kemin ...
Floré Customized Probiotics Plays a Role in Netflix Gut Health Documentary
Netflix has just released a documentary, “Hack Your Health: The Secrets of Your Gut,” that answers some of the past decade’s hottest questions regarding gut health, like “why is eating so painful,” “why is it so hard for me to lose weight?” and “how do I still not know what’s right for my body?” To ...
Logan University Announces Opening of The Foot Levelers Women’s Health Clinic
Logan University (Chesterfield, MO) has opened the new Foot Levelers Women’s Health Clinic at the Montgomery Health Center on the university’s campus. Logan is the first university worldwide to house a women’s health clinic on its premises, showcasing Logan’s commitment to excellence in health, education and service, the university said. The clinic offers a comprehensive ...
OmniActive Partners With CRN To Raise Macular Carotenoids For Prenatal Nutrition Awareness
OmniActive Health Technologies (Bridgewater, NJ and Mumbai, India) is proud to announce its collaboration with the Council of Responsible Nutrition (CRN) to highlight the significance of lutein and zeaxanthin isomers for prenatal nutrition at The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology’s (ACOG) Annual Clinical & Scientific Meeting, which will take place from May 17-19, 2024, in San Francisco, CA. OmniActive is ...
Climb Stairs to Live Longer, Research Says
Climbing stairs is associated with a longer life, according to research presented at ESC Preventive Cardiology 2024, a scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). “If you have the choice of taking the stairs or the lift, go for the stairs as it will help your heart,” said study author Dr. Sophie Paddock ...
Jerry M. Kantor
Jerry M. Kantor is the author of The Emotional Roots of Chronic Illness, Homeopathy for Existential Stress; Sane Asylums, the Success of Homeopathy Before Psychiatry Lost Its Mind; Interpreting Chronic Illness, the Convergence of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Homeopathy and Biomedicine; The Toxic Relationship Cure, Curing Traumatic Damage from a boss, parent, lover or friend with ...
Sonoran University Announces Free Homeopathic Literature Collection
Sonoran University of Health Sciences has announced The Homeopathic Academy of Naturopathic Physicians Dimitriadis Literature Collection, a digital library comprised of more than 481 gigabytes of original source material, which translates to nearly 62,000 documents of original homeopathic literature. The collection is completely free for any individual to access at https://homeopathy.sonoran.edu. “Delivering this incredibly important digital library ...
Logan University Receives Transfer Opportunity Approval for Fontbonne Students
Logan University (Chesterfield, MO) has received approval to be a transfer university for students of Fontbonne University, which will be closing after summer 2025. Transferring to a designated transfer school comes with additional student benefits as opposed to traditional transfers to an institution, according to Logan University. Students in the following Fontbonne programs will likely ...
Microplastics Go From the Gut to Other Organs
It’s happening every day. From our water, our food and even the air we breathe, tiny plastic particles are finding their way into many parts of our body. But what happens once those particles are inside? What do they do to our digestive system? In a recent paper published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, University ...
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