Posted in Alzheimer's, Environmental Health, Exercise, Holism, Informed Consent, Mental Health, Recommended Reading, Stress, Vaccinations, Wellness, cancer, nutrition, tagged nutrition, relaxation, Mental Health, toxins, Exercise, hpv vaccine, Gardasil, Alzheimer's disease, noise, cell phones, mobile phones, pain, granite, radon on August 1, 2008 | No Comments »
HPV Vaccine Adverse Events Worrisome Says Key Investigator (MedScape Today)
Concerns about serious health risks - including neurologic and autoimmune complications - from the use of Gardasil and other human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines are being raised by Diane Harper, MD, at Dartmouth Medical School. Once a principal investigator in HPV vaccine clinical trials for Merck and [...]
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Posted in Drugs, Environmental Health, Food, Holism, Mental Health, Recommended Reading, Wellness, homeopathy, nutrition, tagged Activia, children, depression, emf radiation, homeopathy, multitasking, nutraceuticals, probiotics, Prozac, SSRIs on July 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Live Safely and Thrive in the Wireless Age (Central Sierra Health Resource Guide)
An excellent overview of the health risks of Electro Magnetic Frequency (EMF) radiation from mobile phones, computers, microwaves and other technological conveniences - along with tips and resources for minimizing your exposure. To access the article, follow the above link and scroll to [...]
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Posted in Drugs, Food, Industrial Medicine, Mental Health, Stress, Wellness, nutrition, orthodontics, tagged big pharma, braces, brain health, children's nutrition, FDA, junk food, nutrition, orthodontics, Stress, yoga on July 14, 2008 | No Comments »
Survey: Most Effective Dental Braces Are Least Attractive (Physorg)
FDA Slowing New Medicine Pipeline (WSJ via azcentral.com)
100 Californians Injured by Hospitals Each Month (MedHeadlines)
Mother’s Junk Food “Harms Child” (BBC)
Early Life Nutrition May Be Associated with Adult Intellectual Functioning (Science Daily)
Scientists Learn How Food Affects the Brain: Omega 3 Especially Important (Science Daily)
Meditation, Yoga Might Switch Off [...]
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Posted in Drugs, Environmental Health, Holism, Industrial Medicine, Mental Health, Recommended Reading, Stress, Wellness, tagged Holism, Drugs, Wellness, relaxation, Mental Health, Environmental Health, Industrial Medicine, Recommended Reading, walking, Stress on June 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Why Bother? (NY Times)
Global warming is real and happening, with so many causes that it seems there’s nothing we can do as individuals to help our environment heal. Apathy is the easy choice - until you read Michael Pollan’s encouraging essay on why our choices matter - environmentally and just plain mentally - even choosing [...]
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Posted in Environmental Health, Holism, Informed Consent, Mental Health, Recommended Reading, Video, Wellness, nutrition, tagged bipolar children, bliss, brain imaging, raw milk, stroke, toxins on June 13, 2008 | No Comments »
The Bipolar Child Strikes Again (Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry)
You may have read the recent set of Newsweek articles on bipolar children (here, here and here). But the fact that even diagnosing such a condition in children - sometimes as young as 2 - is problematic (to put it mildly) seems to have been lost on [...]
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Two notable articles touching on matters of wellness recently ran in the New York Times - in the Business section, of all places. Both are brief, pointed and worth checking out.
The first is Why Leisure Matters in a Busy World, a short interview with Alison Link on the need for leisure and its role in [...]
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