Alternative Medicine Used by 38 Percent of US Adults Reveals …
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- Alternative Medicine Used by 38 Percent of US Adults Reveals …
- FOXSexpert: 4 Common Drugs That Sabotage Your Sex Life
- Fla. Museum photo exhibit on Indian medicine traditions opens Thursday
- The Malaria Vaccine Explained
- Living to 100
- Many people choose alternative medicine
- Prepared for disaster? Georgia gets a passing grade

Alternative Medicine Used by 38 Percent of US Adults Reveals …
Natural News.com AZ 
Protecting your body with Mother Nature’s medicine is the most natural thing in the world. (Poisoning your body with chemotherapy on the other hand is unnatural and harmful. That’s why chemo patients don’t live very long. )The pharmaceutical approach to medicine is unnatural. It’s often barbaric (chemotherapy) and usually based on scientific fraud (off-label prescribing junk science studies bribery corruption etc.

FOXSexpert: 4 Common Drugs That Sabotage Your Sex Life
FOXNews 
While there are a number of offenders many people are surprised to learn that commonly used medication can result in sexual side-effects. After all nobody told you there was a sexual price to pay for better health and well-being. So are these pills in your medicine cabinet? If so let’s look at ways you can counter their influence. Cholesterol-Lowering Medications To love someone with all your heart can’t be taken literally when you’re on this type of medication. Cholesterol-lowering meds have impotence and decreased sexual desire as primary sexual side-effects. They can make it harder to make love.

Fla. Museum photo exhibit on Indian medicine traditions opens Thursday
Media Newswire (press release) NY 
— Immerse yourself in the tradition of the Florida Creek Indians at the Florida Museum of Natural History’s newest galleria exhibit “Women’s Medicine: Traditions of the Florida Creek Indians” Thursday through April 12 2009. The exhibit of 24 photographs from Margaret and Michael Bogan focuses on their search for the flowers leaves and plants of traditional Creek Indian medicine. Visitors also will learn about the relationship between animals and plants in natural medicine. “We often admire our native flora for its beauty” said Florida Museum exhibits director Darcie MacMahon. “But this exhibit adds a dimension to our appreciation — the longstanding traditional uses of native plants for medicines. “The photographers hope the exhibit will increase awareness about the state’s shrinking natural environments and spark interest in the native people places and cultural heritage of Florida. Margaret Bogan is an associate professor of science education at Florida Gulf Coast University in Ft.
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The Malaria Vaccine Explained
UN Dispatch 
UN Dispatch spoke with Dr. Daniel Carucci Vice President of Global Health for UN Foundation described what this breakthrough means for the global fight against malaria.

Living to 100
ABC7Chicago.com  USA 
com to see how long you’ll live. Perls is a physician and researcher in the study of aging at Boston University School of Medicine. He attended the University of Rochester School of Medicine and received his medical residency training at Harbor UCLA Medical Center. He graduated as a Geriatrics Medicine Fellow at Harvard Medical School where he also began the New England Centenarian Study. Now in its thirteenth year and funded by the National Institute on Aging the New England Centenarian Study is the largest genetic and social study of centenarians and their families in the world (www.

Many people choose alternative medicine
33 KDAF-TV TX 
“It dropped my pain dramatically I mean immediately” she said. A new survey says a large group of people are choosing non-traditional forms of treatment for what ails them. Of the 32000 Americans were surveyed last year  38% of adults and 12% of children are choosing some type of complementary or alternative medicine. Tena Scarber is a Plano acupuncturist.   “You’ll even have a patient who’s had a stroke and can’t speak start speaking on your acupuncture table so it’s just phenomenal” she said. The survey defined alternatives as:                Acupuncture               Dietary supplements               Herbal products               Deep breathing exercises               Meditation               Chiropractic therapy               Massage               YogaDoctor Steven Remer isn’t surprised by the study.   “I think many people in the medical field are realizing the importance of looking at overall lifestyle and nutrition and diet and exercise” he said.

Prepared for disaster? Georgia gets a passing grade
Atlanta Journal Constitution  USA 
If a pandemic natural disaster or a terrorist attack causes local medical supplies to run out stockpiled medicine is delivered within 12 hours of the request. Georgia is one of 10 states that have turned around the failing grade they received from the organization in 2007 for this category. To pass the states had to score at least a 69 or better. Georgia’s score was 73. Only New Mexico scored lower.

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