| More researchers embrace mind-body connection
Tagging along with winter come ailments that challenge most Western doctors: stress, back and joint pain, head colds, heart attacks, anxiety, depression, upset stomachs and insomnia.Is it time to try acupuncture, hypnosis, meditation, guided imagery and massage?
Surprisingly, even the most conservative mainstream research hospitals now answer "yes!"Twenty years ago, the mind-body connection was largely dismissed by U.S. doctors as a wacky concept in healing. Today it's a staple of integrative medicine, the discipline that blends complementary and alternative medicine, or CAM, with conventional treatments and places more emphasis on treating the whole person.About 75 percent of medical schools have CAM courses in the curriculum, and the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine includes 39 academic health centers, including Mayo Clinic as well as Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, Duke and Yale universities.To help doctors catch up on the growing body of evidence-based research on CAM therapies, the University of Chicago's Tang Center for Herbal Medi-cine Research and the Mayo Clinic co-hosted the annual Conference on Complementary and Alternative Medicine."The encouraging thing is that CAM treatments require self-care," said Brent Bauer, director of the Complementary and Integrative Medicine Program at the Mayo Clinic.
Cambridge Who's Who Recognizes Dr. Serena M. Bordes For Excellence In ...
Serena M. Bordes, doctor of naturopathy, licensed acupuncturist and diplomate in acupuncture, has been recognized by Cambridge Who's Who for excellence in the practice of naturopathy and Oriental medicine. Bordes, an esteemed V.I.P. member of Cambridge Who's Who, is now organizing local seminars to enlighten community members about the many benefits of naturopathic treatment.
Bordes launched her career in holistic health after helping to correctly diagnose her daughter after she fell ill with a pituitary adenoma. This life-changing diagnosis marked the beginning of a holistic career spanning 30 years. Eight years ago, Bordes started a private practice, where she integrates acupuncture, homeopathic treatments, laser therapy and alternative health resources to treat patients.
Staph-Killing Properties of Clay Investigated by UB Researchers
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- What makes some clays such powerful antimicrobial agents capable of killing MRSA and other virulent bacteria? It's a question that University at Buffalo researchers have been studying for several years. With funding from the National Institutes of Health-National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, the UB geologists are studying the surface characteristics of naturally occurring antimicrobial clays, including some clays from France, to determine why they are such effective killers of bacteria. Researchers from Arizona State University's School of Earth and Space Exploration, to whom the UB researchers are under subcontract on that grant, have recently shown that French clays can destroy Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus, also called MRSA.
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