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Massage therapy licensure, certification, and national examination issues are canvassed in a piece questioning membership requirements.

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Electronic medical records were a novelty only a few years ago, but now are becoming increasingly standard.

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Robots are learning emotions from people, and they'll be reading this blog before long.

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A $4.1 million medical malpractice judgment was awarded for negligence by a Tennessee nursing home.

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Health freedom legislation has been proposed for Iowan CAM health care practitioners.

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We humans are not the only ones to beat our ploughshares into swords.

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Internet addiction is treated through electric shock in Chinese clinics, yet the so-called addicts are not using acupuncture and other modalities in which the region is rich with history.

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Twilight Brigade founder Dannion Brinkley will speak on compassion in dying.

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How do you know whether a specific CAM practice -- say, hypnotherapy -- is 'legal' or 'illegal' in a specific state?

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Complementary and Alternative Medicine use is rising in Ireland, according to a new survey.

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States are considering taxing plastic surgery and cosmetic (retail) medicine.

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InforSense Ltd., a leading provider of embedded enterprise analytics, delivers InforSense HealthSense to the healthcare market.

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A D.C. court has eased the ability of patients to obtain investigational new drugs.

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Following "robot phone home," the next prediction from the AAAS meeting is that, within a decade cars could start driving themselves on highways and in less than 25 years automakers may be producing vehicles "smart" enough to chauffeur passengers through city streets.

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Abraham Maslow explored the 'farther reaches of human nature' with a positive psychology of motivation; now, robot psychology is being used industrially to guide motivation of android helpmates.

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Virtual reality is being used to treat soldiers returning from Iraq with post-traumatic stress disorder.

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Robotic therapy is shown to help restore hand use after stroke.

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Who would have guessed that crushing garlic may be the best way to preserve the herb's healthy compounds during cooking?

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Harking to the Department of Pre-Crime in 'Minority Report,' scientists now say they can predict intention with some comfort.

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If the household cleaner smells noxious, it's probably toxic - so goes my philosophy.

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned about consumers getting the wrong (and sometimes dangerous) drugs through online orders.

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Science fiction once again becomes science fact as neural implants gain momentum, aiding those suffering from spinal cord injuries.

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Spiritual care at the end of life receives emphasis in a new report by a clinical oncologist.

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The federal food and drug administration (FDA) has put out an alert on certain brands of peanut butter.

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Strong religious beliefs can protect strokestroke patients from emotional distress, perhaps aiding recovery, according to a new study.

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Wired posts an interesting interview with the scientist who invented the notion of quantum computers with the aim of proving the existence of parallel universes.

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LearningAndLife.com has announced educational and informational online resources.

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The Chicago Accident Law Blog takes up the argument that Internet prescription drug overdoses are a threat to public health in the United States.

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Flowers, the emblem of essence, are often smothered with toxic chemicals, according to a new report.

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The SEC is beginning to craft rules to protect corporations, executives and accounting firms from investor fraud-related actions.

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Retail medicine are making inroads at walk-in health clinics, undercutting conventional care and bypassing hospital fees.

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The phrase comes from: (a) a Zen monk after hours of meditation; (b) Yoda; (c) a hospital executive.

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An alternative medicine article in Malaysia offers a comparative snapshot of legal and regulatory issues.

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The Medical Humanities Blog reported on a controversial ad showing a robot having serious mental health issues.

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The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) has urged doctors and healthcare practitioners to ask patients about their use of herbs in an effort to foster communication on the issue.

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The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research laboratory, or PEAR, will close, not because of controversy but because, its founder says, it is time.

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The New Yorker reports criticism of the popular show '24' as unreliastically using high-velocity narrative in repetivie 'ticking time bomb' scenarios.

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An ecotravel blog suggets Caribbean tourism needs to integrate with Caribbean nations' wider economies.

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Two new vitamin D studies using a sophisticated form of analysis called meta-analysis, have revealed new prescriptions for possibly preventing up to half of the cases of breast cancer and two-thirds of the cases of colorectal cancer in the United States.

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Remember when Michael J. Fox told his mom (in "Back to the Future"), "hey mom, you sure know how to hydrate a pizza!"

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Global warming isn't all in Al Gore's head. A picture is worth a thousand words.

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High responsibility and low power or control can lead to imabalance and thus disease, runs the accepted wisdom; so how do we ameliorate the current state of shrinkwrap purgatory?

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Telemedicine rules aside, a television appearance by a government official was viewed by someone knowledgeable, who fortunately called in a diagnostic warning.

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For the first time, a major cash prize is being offered to a researcher or practitioner working in the field of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in Canada.

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Remember the Star Trek episode where the computerized gizmo runs amuck trying to destroy 'carbon-based life-forms' on the Enterprise?

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And they are doing so in a very structured, scientific way.

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A new study, published in The Journal of Physiology, shows that acute oral intake of largely accepted antioxidants Vitamin C and E prior to a scuba dive can reduce alterations in cardiovascular function, particularly acute endothelial dysfunction, that are caused by a single field air dive.

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A Portland newspaper reports on use of Chinese medicine and other complementary therapies to ward off winter colds and flues.

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