Thoughts from the student clinic: Needling

I will be posting here thoughts and suggestions for student acupuncture interns based on my experiences at Bastyr's Clinic For Natural Health. The goal is to help any student intern with any patient no matter the specific style of practice of their teachers and supervisors. All posts will be under the "Student Clinic" category. Please …

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The mind-body in medicine

From MedlinePlus (a website of the National Library of Medicine): "We know that it is common for individuals with autism to have a more intense reaction to stress, and some of these patients seem to experience frequent constipation, abdominal pain or other gastrointestinal issues," Beversdorf said in a university news release. "To better understand why, …

How much $$$ is your MD receiving from drug companies?

From the government website OpenPaymentsData.CMS.org: Sometimes, doctors and hospitals have financial relationships with health care manufacturing companies. Open Payments is the federally run transparency program that collects information about these financial relationships and makes it available to you. These relationships can involve money for research activities, gifts, speaking fees, meals, or travel. One of the …

Socioeconomics and Health

From the National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine: Black Americans who live in poor neighborhoods are at higher risk for heart disease and stroke than those who live in wealthier areas, a new study finds... Every decrease on a scale of socioeconomic status was associated with a 25 percent rise in heart disease …

Dangers of heartburn medications

Below is an example of a quick-fix solution just causing more problems (while only superficially addressing the main complaint). Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), such as Prilosec, Prevacid and Nexium, as well as H2 blockers, such as Zantac, Pepcid and Tagamet, when taken very occasionally are no worse for you than a fast-food hamburger. If taken …

Who is that driving your life?

How well do you know the person behind the driving wheel of your life?

Coming Soon!…

... blog posts way more interesting than this one. Finally I have a portal from which to spout all the great things Chinese medicine has to say about living life as awesomely as you can. Diet and exercise, mind and mood, habits and patterns underlying all the things we think, say, and do - so …

High quality modern research on acupuncture

High quality modern research on acupuncture.