Tag Archives: CAM

Being Mindful of World Health Day

Posted on April 10, 2013 by

This article first appeared on Australia’s national forum, Online Opinion. There’ll be a functional cure for AIDs; your brain waves will be able to be manipulated to jog memory or scratch bad recollections; and, bandages will indicate how healing is … Continue reading →

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A Mandate for Future Healthcare

Posted on August 31, 2012 by

This article was published on ON LINE Opinion, Australia’s e-journal of social and political debate, as Melbourne Integrative Medicine Conference Points to Holistic Future for Healthcare. It was fun when the researcher from Sydney University Medical School used the Myers-Briggs personality indicators … Continue reading →

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A New Mainstream Health Care?

Posted on May 4, 2012 by

My Guest Writer today is Media Manager, Christian Science healer and teacher, Russ Gerber, who shares his thoughts about worldwide health movements on the Huffington Post. For the past few years I’ve been tracking media coverage of health care on just about every continent … Continue reading →

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Genetics Expert Provides Insight Into Mind-Body Connection

Posted on March 19, 2012 by

Are we really stuck with a hard-wired genetic makeup? Did you know our genes can change over our lifetime? This guest post by Eric Nelson, media spokesperson for Christian Science in Northern California, brings to light some VERY interesting scientific … Continue reading →

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An alternative to too many meds

Posted on March 5, 2012 by

My guest post today by Eric Nelson, media spokesperson for Christian Science in Northern California appeared first on Blog Critics. It’s called polypharmacy. Put simply, it’s when someone uses more medication than they actually need. And it can be risky. … Continue reading →

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Dialogue about science, culture and faith is crucial to human progress

Posted on February 29, 2012 by

Medical ethicist Robert Veatch has suggested that there is no “single entity called medicine”. Instead, there may be as many different medicines as there are world views. Might I suggest that there may just be as many different individual spiritualities … Continue reading →

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Spirituality rides back into the HEALTH arena

Posted on February 27, 2012 by

We are hearing more and more in the media about the beneficial impact of spirituality on health. Keith Wommack‘s re-post today sheds a little more light on the historical links between religious thought and healthcare. Keith is the  media spokesperson for … Continue reading →

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CAM includes the Medicine of Love

Posted on February 10, 2012 by

First published on ON LINE Opinion, Australia’s e-journal of social and political debate. There is a ferocious debate occurring in the health field at the moment in Australia, as the Friends of Science in Medicine lobby group pressures universities to … Continue reading →

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Study shows dementia not an inevitable part of ageing

Posted on January 11, 2012 by

The number of Australians suffering dementia is currently 280,000, a number expected to increase more than four-fold in the next 40 years, sparking calls for the federal government to devote more funds to addressing the looming aged care issue. This … Continue reading →

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Exploring effective pain relief options

Posted on January 9, 2012 by

It is time for Australians to become informed on this very significant health issue. My guest post today by Bill Scott, media spokesperson for Christian Science in Washington State USA, uncovers some convincing statistics on the use of pain killers in developed … Continue reading →

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Health Story of the Year

Posted on December 30, 2011 by

The ‘Health Story of the Year’ hasn’t made it into the mainstream media much at all, suggests online moderator of Croakey, Melissa Sweet. “It is the impact of social media upon health and health care”, she states, backing this up … Continue reading →

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Study Shows Spirituality Protects Youth Mental Health

Posted on November 23, 2011 by

My free local newspaper, Highfields Herald-Crow’s Nest Advertiser published an article today about a report on Stress and Well Being in Australia in 2011: A state of the nation survey. When I accessed the linked website I was intrigued to … Continue reading →

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Complementary? Alternative? Where does Christian Science fit in?

Posted on May 23, 2011 by

Ever heard of CAM? Roger Whiteway, my colleague in Virginia, USA shares his findings below. Moving the Needle In my blog post of April 28th, I discussed The Cure Within, a book by Harvard professor Anne Harrington about the history … Continue reading →

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