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Stayin’ Alive : Picking a Health Care Provider
Stayin’ Alive:Tips on choosing your health care provider By Mariann G. Wizard / The Rag Blog / February 2, 2010 [Stayin’ Alive is a periodic column on Complementary and Alternative Medicine by Rag Blogger Mariann G. Wizard, a professional science … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative Health Care, CAM Medicine, Health Care, Mariann G. Wizard, Medicine
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Stayin’ Alive : Managing Osteoarthritis with Complementary and Alternative Medicine
“Skeleton Woman.” Prisma color pencil, watercolor, applique by Lucy MadelineStayin’ Alive:Hanging out in the joints with osteoarthritis By Mariann G. Wizard / The Rag Blog / January 19, 2010 [Stayin’ Alive is a new periodic column on Complementary and Alternative … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative Health Care, Alternative Medicine, CAM Medicine, Mariann G. Wizard
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Stayin’ Alive : Complementary and Alternative Medicine
“Tree of Life,” working design for Stoclet Frieze, Gustav Klimt, 1905/09.Stayin’ Alive:Towards a conscious self-health-care continuum No system of medicine is static, and none has a monopoly on beneficial knowledge or tactics. By Mariann G. Wizard / The Rag Blog … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative Health Care, Alternative Medicine, CAM Medicine, Mariann G. Wizard, Medicine
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American Health Care : Monster Run Amok
Cartoon by RS Janes / LTSaloon.Once the envy of the world…The American health care disgrace By Dr. Stephen R. Keister / The Rag Blog / November 7, 2009 Between 1910 and 1970 American medicine was the envy of the world. … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative Health Care, American History, Ethics, Health Insurance, Medicine
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Health Insurance : Does Baucus Bill Make Things Worse?
Cartoon by David Horsey / Seattle P.I.Public option a necessity:Baucus Bill protects insurance companies By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / October 19, 2009 There are two especially devious ways that private health insurers use to keep their own … Continue reading
Michael Pollan: What’s Really Wrong with Health Care in America – Corporate Agribusiness
Big Food vs. Big InsuranceBy Michael Pollan / September 9, 2009 TO listen to President Obama’s speech on Wednesday night, or to just about anyone else in the health care debate, you would think that the biggest problem with health … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, Alternative Health Care, Food Production, Health Care, Obama Administration
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Meditation Helps Veterans with PTSD
Dr. David Kearney, standing, a veterans-hospital physician, conducts a mindfulness-based stress-reduction class that uses meditation and yoga techniques to combat chronic pain, depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder. In front is Stephen Brakus. Photo: Courtney Blethen, Seattle Times.Seattle hospital teaches … Continue reading
Medical Marijuana Vs. Poison Pot (Shudder)
‘The mainstream media remains amazed and, oftimes, inappropriately amused, when yet another study demonstrates that, far from being the brain-and-body-wrecking “weed of the devil,” cannabis has wide-ranging health benefits.’By Mariann Wizard / The Rag Blog / November 24, 2008 Gentle … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative Health Care, Cannabis, Health, Marijuana, Medical Marijuana
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Marijuana a Winner in 2008 Elections
Voters say ‘Yes’ in Cannabis-related initiatives. By Mariann G. Wizard | The Rag Blog | November 9, 2008 Marijuana-related measures on various ballots around the country did fairly well in last Tuesday’s elections. In Michigan, a medical marijuana initiative passed … Continue reading
HEALTH CARE : Bone Density Drugs Can Do More Harm Than Good
Big Pharma Pushes Drugs That Cause Conditions They Are Supposed to PreventBy Martha Rosenberg / July 24, 2008. Yet again, women are the industry’s main targets. Like gastroesophageal reflux and bipolar disease, osteopenia began to inflict millions when a drug … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative Health Care, Medical Studies, Medicine, Pharmaceutical Companies, Pharmaceuticals
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HEALTH : Eat Your Veggies!
The reason the United States now ranks 40th in longevity in the world is our massive subsidies of junk food, according to Public health officials. Here’s what real food can do for health. Janet Gilles / The Rag Blog Study … Continue reading
U.S. Sadly Lags Behind in Human Development
The sad state of American health care was strikingly depicted by Michael Moore in “Sicko”.US slips down development indexAmericans live shorter lives than citizens of almost every other developed nation, according to a report from several US charities. The report … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative Health Care, Human Development, Poverty, Standard of Living
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