CAMLAW: Complementary and Alternative Medicine Law Blog : Complementary, Alternative, & Integrative Medicine Law, Regulation, Ethics & Policy (Alternative and Complementary Medicine, Medical Spa Information, Holistic Health Attorney, and Legal Resources)

Medical use of nanotechnology and robotic surgery is accelerating, bringing futurist technology to the fore of conventional health care.

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Sharjah International Holistic Health Centre was inagurated in the United Arab Emirates.

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Cleveland Clinic's Preventive Cardiology team and the Canyon Ranch Institute are hosting a national conference highlighting the integration of conventional, complementary and alternative medicine and its impact on heart health.

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Australia will invest $5 million to test alternative medicine, focusing particularly on herbal therapies.

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Complementary medicine champion Penny George was profiled for her philanthropic support of research into and awareness regarding use of complementary and alternative therapies for cancer and other diseases.

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Yoga, in addition to its physical and mental benefits for everyone else, is said to be helping youths at a juvenile justice center.

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Holistic health care for pets is growing, according to a San Francisco report.

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Use of tiny balloons and metal stents for heart attack patients has been questioned by a major study.

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Health care laywer Jayne Juvan will air Juvan's health law podcast.

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The National Center for Health Marketing at the Centers for Disease Control delivers health information through a health marketing blog.

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The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has begun promoting health in the digital world through appearance in Second Life as a female avatar named Philo Hygeia (lover of health).

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An unanswered ethical question facing AI (artificial intelligence) is whether robots should be allowed to carry weapons.

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That's spear phishing, not fishing; also known as targeted spam.

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Is it really so far-out to assume that information can be mediated through the human energy field, even though we are as yet unable to determine or measure the mechanism?

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Anti-aging medicine researcher Aubrey de Grey discusses radical life extension therapies in a blog about becoming immortal.

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Actually, dolpins have been taught to sing the theme from Batman.

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Information age maven Ray Kurzweil has predicted that computers will continue to exceed human capabilities in many arenas, including the medical.

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Insurance company Aetna was sued by a New Jersey couple for refusing to cover their daughter's care for anorexia.

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A Chinese professor who has questioned the value Chinese traditional medicine finds himself "denounced as a traitor and subjected to scornful attacks by the Chinese government."

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The Textbook of Integrative Mental Health Care by James Lake, MD has just been released by Thieme Press.

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Physician assistants have licensing authority to write prescriptions in forty-nine states plus the District of Columbia.

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The National Health Services in the United Kingdom proposes to implement genetic screening, based on Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD), originally developed in the late 1980s to identify genetic defects and chromosomal abnormalities in embryos before they are transferred to the womb.

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The Center for Devices and Radiological Health within the federal Food and Drug Administration is taking steps to increase its ability to identify, analyze, and act on postmarket information in order to improve the safety and effectiveness of medical devices and radiation-emitting products.

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After much wrangling among candidates, the World Health Organization member countries approved Margaret Chan, a Chinese infectious-diseases expert, as the United Nations agency's new chief.

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Juvan's Health Law Update features the Complementary and Alternative Medicine Law Blog and the Institute for Integrative and Energy Medicine.

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Tom Cruise spends a lot of time in the film, "Minority Report," using his eyes to open locked doors, trigger police scanners, and incite talking advertisements.

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The nutritional value of most foods in one chain of grocery stores was ranked and most scored almost zero.

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While the ethics and legality of stem cell practices are being debated worldwide, law firms are launching stem cell technology practice to capitalize on business opportunities.

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Medical humanities is linked to complementary and alternative medicine law, ethics, regulation, and health care policy in more ways than a backlink.

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With urban violence rapidly becoming a major public health threat, a peace initiative to quell local gang violence is making an impact.

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Health courts are receiving support as a means to enhance patient safety, the notion being that health courts will function like other specialized courts (i.e., tax, bankruptcy, admiralty, etc.), with an eye to cultivate "a culture of transparency regarding medical errors and the creation of mechanisms to gather and analyze data on medical injuries."

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Recombinant DNA was to the 1970s what animal-human hybrids are to this age, argues one Australian source.

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Health care law attorney Jayne E. Juvan, Esq. is writing a health law blog (Juvan's Health Law Update) with wings.

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In Greek mythology, the Minotaur was a hybrid monster: half-man, half-bull; now, UK scientists have applied for a license to create hybrid embryos using human cells and animal eggs for stem cell research to develop new disease treatments.

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Casino Royale, the new James Bond film, premieres soon, and MI-6 "agents" (extras) are gathering in the Bahamas for a viewing.

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The Institute for Integrative and Energy Medicine, also known as the Institute for Health, Ethics, Law, Policy & Society, is reaching critical mass toward sustaining its mission.

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National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Director Stephen E. Straus, M.D. leaves the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine after many years of service.

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Cruise ships are offering tai chi and mind-body therapies among their exercise menus.

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According to an online poll conducted on CancerCompass.com, an online cancer community, only 30 percent of cancer patients are offered nutritional guidance.

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Health Canada is advising consumers not to use four unauthorized natural health products that are promoted to treat serious health conditions.

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Therapy dogs, fresh flowers, and a healing environment reduce bacteria, study of one observer shows.

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Chronic fatigue syndrome affects millions of Americans, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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A wanderer searching for and sharing creativity and inspiration, who regularly comments on massage governance, on the teaching and practice of massage, on the pursuit of science and mathematics, and on family and community, offer this.

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"Catch A Fire," the latest movie about South Africa, resonates with clarity, authenticity and truth.

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Though climate change is serious, the language of fear and chaos is creating a self-fulfilling prophecy, generating needless fear for the sake of controlling political agendas.

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A court ordered 16-year-old Abraham Cherrix to undergo integrative cancer treatment, which integrates conventional medicine and alternative therapies to treat cancer.

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The air in Portland is particularly filled with deadly benzene particles, making breathing problematic.

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This was a famous facetious tag-line in the popular book (and film), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Now it appears to be true.

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The Pew Internet and American Life Project's August survey found that many people go online for health-related information, but few verify the information they receive.

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Massage may help agitation and depression among dementia patients, according to a review in the Cochrane Library.

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A study published in the November 2006 issue of Arthritis & Rheumatism examined the use of acupuncture as an extension of routine medical care and whether the effects of treatment last after therapy is discontinued.

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If a holistic practitioner advertised that antimatter cures cancer on his or her website, legal sanctions (such as an action for fraud) would probably apply.

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Web research for graduate work, government reports, or even medical or legal research goes far deeper than either Google or Wikipedia.

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Glossolalia, otherwise referred to as "speaking in tongues," may be a religious practice, but is also the subject of new medical research on the brain.

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In Elephants Recognize Selves in Mirror, Study Says, National Geographic reports on a new study showing that elephants have self-awareness.

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Spirituality is missing in psychotherapy, according to Whole Life Times in The Soulful Shrinks: Exploring the Spiritual in Psychotherapy.

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