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Entries from November 2009

Industrial Chemicals in our Blood

November 29th, 2007

There’s a new wave in testing people for a so-called “body burden” of industrial chemicals in their blood stream.  The results are shocking.  A family with two young children in Oakland, CA

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Tags: Aches & Pains · Aging · Articles · Healthy Diet · News & Info

Flu Shot Don’t Reduce Flu Deaths

November 24th, 2007

A new study published in the October 2007 Lancet (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science) by researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, concludes that influenza vaccinations in the US have prevented fewer deaths

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Tags: Aging · Articles · Cold & Flu · Head Space · Infection · News & Info · Respiratory

Doctors Attempt Consensus

November 22nd, 2007

When a panel of doctors was asked to vote on adding a new wing to their hospital, the Allergists voted to scratch it and the Dermatologists advised not to  make any rash moves.

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Tags: Funny Bones

New Scientific Focus on Ginseng

November 5th, 2007

New Research on Ginseng: Pharmacogenomics and the Yin/Yang actions of ginseng: anti-tumor, angiomodulating and steroid-like activities of ginsenosides.  Chinese Medicine 2007

 

Long known as a whole-body tonic (the root plant, precious for centuries in Asian countries, is shaped like a person)

 

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Tags: Acupuncture · Aging · Articles · Cancer · Chinese Medicine · Health Care · Herbs & Supplements · Men's Health · News & Info