CAMLAW : Complementary And Alternative Medicine Law Blog

According to Sleep, many common oral non-prescription treatments for insomnia have no beneficial effect.

Add e-bullying to your list of existential anxieties.

Dr. Andrew Weil's comments on ozone-emitting air purifiers help update my 7th grade science fiction story "The Freon."

Detoxification information coming to you in North Carolina.

Updates from Arab Health include a healthcare industry congress, health law changes in Dubai, and a new smoking ban.

Yes to Life is a new nonprofit offering cancer alterantives.

Lose that schedule if you want to be healthier, happier, wiser and more productive.

A new Providence cancer center is offering CAM therapies.

And ad-inflated sugar highs, with Kellogs returning to its founder's original mission.

The death of privacy is here.

A Canadian survey suggests that half of Canadians have used alternative therapies.

But fortunately your robot is watching you.

Four easy steps: First become a Type I civilization.

Holistic health theories sometimes call attention to real links even if dismissed as conspiracy paranoia.

The BBC reports progress by UK scientists on use of stem cells to restore vision.

A study of integrative care in HMOs suggests success.

Complementary medicine hits Southern California with "Unconventional medical treatments gain in popularity: Many patients are now combining alternative therapies with traditional medicine for ‘the best of both worlds.'"

We probably have a World Day for every healing modality; here is World Tai Chi Day.

The Carolina Center for Integrative Medicine will discuss detoxification and colon therapy.

Qigong helped people cope with anxiety following the SARS outbreak, according to research in the April issue of the UK-based Journal of Clinical Nursing.

Reducing inflammation may help prevent cancer, say research studies from the Mayo Clinic.

Chimps are smarter than humans in some ways, reports the New York Times.

UCSF is offering its mini-medical school courses on a variety of topics including mind-body-spirit and wellness information.

A UC Davis study has found high arsenic levels in herbal kelp supplements.

Or at least the world's bees, which has an impact on the world food supply, since bees pollinate flowers (and of course have lives of their own).

Good news for tooth- and gum- conscious persons: a new portable saliva test could work in minutes to detect periodontal disease.

Anti-aging medicine is profiled and challenged in an analysis of its claims as a field.

Natural health advice for better sleeping includes herbal medicine and the usual things such as avoiding over stimulation prior to bedtime.

Watching I Robot on cable tonight reminded me of how real and non-futuristic the robot bartenders and conscious robot protagonist seemed.

The premise of Chasing Life is that a healthy lifestyle equals health extension, which suggests an integrative medicine approach of bringing together the best of conventional medicine and holistic health care.

If the human body were deliberately designed rather than produced by evolution, its natural perfection would be maintained and its flaws reduced, according to experts.

The anti-complementary medicine rhetoric of the late-19th century through circa 1998 returns with a new sweeping statement that CAM has no basis in scientific evidence.