Articles by Shari Barbanel
UA Health Sciences Receives $1 Million Gift to Support Integrative Medicine
Chicago, IL-area philanthropist Jolita Leonas-Arzbaecher has made a $1 million gift to advance the work of the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona (UA) Health Sciences. Andrew Weil, MD, is director of the UA Center for Integrative Medicine, where he also holds the Lovell-Jones Endowed Chair in Integrative Rheumatology and is a ...
Vitamin B Levels During Pregnancy Linked to Eczema Risk in Child
Infants whose mothers had a higher level of a particular type of vitamin B during pregnancy have a lower risk of eczema at age 12 months; a new Southampton study has shown. The study from the Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, U.K., is the first to link maternal serum levels of ...
Alcat Test Receives 2016 Frost & Sullivan Award
Frost & Sullivan has awarded Cell Science Systems Corporation (CSS, Deerfield, FL) the 2016 North American Company of the Year Award, based on Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis of the food intolerance testing market. “CSS has conducted ongoing research for more than 20 years to perfect its flagship Alcat Test, a cellular test for foods, ...
Emerson Ecologics’ IGNITE Conference Releases Full 2016 Program Line Up
After a successful inaugural conference dedicated to providing integrative health care practitioners with the business knowledge needed to run a thriving practice, the Emerson Ecologics (Manchester NH) team is excited to announce the full, robust program for their 2016 IGNITE Conference. The event will provide actionable business insights from industry experts and most importantly, the ...
Evidence Suggests Vitamin D May Help Reduce Asthma Attacks
A new review, published in the Cochrane Library, has found evidence from randomized trials, that taking an oral vitamin D supplement in addition to standard asthma medication is likely to reduce severe asthma attacks. Low blood levels of vitamin D have been linked to increased risk of asthma attacks in children and adults with asthma. ...
New Gallup-Palmer College of Chiropractic Survey: Three in Four Patients Describe Chiropractic Care as ‘Very Effective’
Low-back pain is the single leading cause of physical disability worldwide, according to the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013. A Gallup-Palmer College of Chiropractic (Davenport, IA) study recently released about Americans’ perceptions of chiropractic found that nearly two-thirds of U.S. adults (65 percent) report having had neck or back pain significant enough that they ...
Study: Drinking Green Tea to Prevent Artery Explosion
Japan’s favorite beverage might be offering more than just a relaxing tea break. According to new research, green tea could prevent a deadly condition in the body’s main artery. A Kyoto University team has found that abdominal aortic aneurysm—a condition in which the main artery becomes overstretched and bloated—developed less frequently in rats that drank ...
Body-mind Meditation Can Boost Attention and Health, Lower Stress
Meditation has long been promoted as a way to feel more at peace. But research from a Texas Tech University faculty member shows it can significantly improve attention, working memory, creativity, immune function, emotional regulation, self-control, cognitive and school performance and healthy habits while reducing stress. Yi-Yuan Tang, the presidential endowed chair in neuroscience and ...
Music Demonstrated to Alleviate Cancer Patients’ Symptoms
We’ve all heard of laughter being the best medicine, but what about music? A systematic review published by the Cochrane Library found that there is significant evidence that music interventions help alleviate symptoms of anxiety, pain and fatigue in cancer patients, while also boosting their quality of life. Led by Joke Bradt, PhD, associate professor ...
NIH Awards $7 Million to UA College of Medicine
About 25 million people in the United States—seven million of them children—suffer from asthma. A five-year, $7 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant awarded recently to Monica Kraft, MD, an internationally renowned physician-scientist who specializes in translational asthma research at the University of Arizona (UA) College of Medicine – Tucson and the UA Health ...
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