“Polarized Thinking about CAM is Downright Dangerous”
Polarized thinking about complementary, alternative and integrative care is negative, well, downright dangerous. It undermines the health care encounter and harms individuals and nations. This can be...
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Access to TM/CAM is a Human Right: WHO
In the future, we need to secure access to health care, which safely and effectively integrates traditional, complementary and alternative medicine (TM/CAM). It is a human right. So says the World...
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NGO: “Sweden Lagging Behind in Health and Food Field”
– Ignorance and fear lie at the heart of the resistance to our proposals. Sweden is at least ten years behind in the field of diet and health. Our politicians must be bold enough to allocate more...
View ArticleTouch Me, Heal Me… Now We Know Why
Softly stroking the skin at body temperature at the speed of five centimeters (roughly two inches) per second. That’s the recipe for an optimal caress according to research from Gothenburg University,...
View Article“Mindfulness Lost Its Soul”
Scientists are confused about the concept of mindfulness, and overlook its social and existential dimensions. Mindfulness has become commercialized mindlessness and lost its soul. So says Håkan Nilsson...
View ArticleSwedish Mistletoe Ruling Boon for Cancer Patients
– From a patient perspective, it is of course encouraging that a usage which has been made an exception for decades now will be accepted, Johanna Hök, pharmacist, PhD and I C researcher comments on...
View Article“Holy Health” Highlights Multiconfessional Sweden
Contemporary Sweden is a multicultural and multireligious society. Whether we like it or not. That is the message of the anthology “Holy Health”, writes Göran Ståhle, a senior lecturer in the...
View ArticleSwedish Health Minister Lambasts “Bogus” CAM
In reference to the recent articles in the Swedish tabloid newspaper Expressen criticizing certain CAM therapies, the Swedish Minister of Health Göran Hägglund emphasized the need for reliable...
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Integrative Care Cut Need for Pain Drugs in Half
After integrative care for pain at the anthroposophical hospital Vidarkliniken in Sweden, prescriptions for pain medications could be halved. Patients in conventional care however, purchased twice as...
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Global Focus on Consumer Education About TCAM
Participants in WHO Workshop on Consumer Education about TCAM OP/ED: Making choices between treatments or practitioners without solid comparative information. Using products of unknown quality, safety...
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