Are family holidays just for kids? From Edubourse.com (Communiqués de presse) Best product for travel sickness Sea-Band is the travel sickness remedy choice of one-third of survey respondents. Nausea is reduced within five minutes after applying Sea-Band wristbands and they may be used before or after the onset of nausea. Notes to editors: Borrowing from the ancient Chinese principle of acupuncture, Sea-Band works by exerting a constant, gentle pressure on a point on the inner wrist called the Pericardium 6 (P6) acupressure point, long known to relieve feelings of...

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Email Story From WJFWTV Crandon - You know the saying, "beauty is only skin deep?" But Noah says he started seeing the good in life and himself when he met his tattoo artist, Cole Kincaid. Noah says, "In blue ink, we're gonna have what I feel are great spirits- people, family I've lost, people I've looked up to like Albert Einstein, Ghandi, Martin Luther King, spread through all of it."

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Fibromyalgia ads stir conflict: Is it a disease? From MLive.com Recent ads touting the release of Pfizer's Lyrica, the first drug approved for treatment of fibromyalgia, has again stirred up the controversy over whether it is actually a disease. Dr. Sultana Mustafa of the Fibromyalgia & Fatigue Centers Inc., in Troy scoffs at the controversy, saying she has been treating patients for years. Although many doctors will treat the disease, the Troy center is the only private office in the state dealing purely with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue, she said....

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Natural health care and headaches From wholehealthamerica.wordpress.com The acupuncture group also had a decreased number of doctors' visits (by 25%), had 15% fewer sick days and took 15% less medication than the control group. Two of the subjects receiving the acupuncture dropped out of the study, while 18 of the subjects receiving the drug therapy dropped out of the study; In the group receiving the acupuncture, 61% had 50% or fewer migraine attacks. During a follow-up 12 weeks after the study, 70% of the acupuncture patients assessed themselves as being...

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Pain relief is the point From Edmonton Sun After all, he is as mainstream as the specialist, but completely open to the notion that often traditional medicine doesn't go far enough. But Calgary's The Hoffman Centre is one real, and Canadian, example of how mainstream medicine is able to adjust to the notion of treating the whole patient. Things have come a long way since 1997, when a group of forward-looking physicians tried to form a Complementary Medicine Section of the Ontario Medical Association (OMA) and were turned down....

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