AARP : "Fringe Therapies go Mainstream" - 04-24-2010 02:23 PM
That was the provocative blurb on the cover of April AARP Bulletin under bold red: Cancer Relief
I'd link to the article but that would be hypocritical since I often bust posters who ignore Brian's plain, simple and reasonable request for this forum [quote]No linking to other sites from this forum please [/quote]
The article itself though cited things I never considered "fringe" (or I am more alternative than I realized) such as
Meditation, Acupuncture, self-hypnosis, massage, Yoga and Reiki.
It summarized research by the NIH's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. But it also balanced it out with warnings by the chief of Integrative Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering: [quote]We spend half of our time working against quackery. It's really a bad situation. What patients see on the Internet is extremely seductive[/quote]
It ended up on the note that due to the placebo effect: doing something, anything, may have healing powers of its own.
Just thought I share. If you want to read it, you can type in the title: Battling Cancer in the search box on the AARP web site's Health page which otherwise reproduces most of the MD Anderson clinic series of articles on cancer in general.
Hmmn, I'll have to join on line and post a commentary about OCF as a resource.
charm
I'd link to the article but that would be hypocritical since I often bust posters who ignore Brian's plain, simple and reasonable request for this forum [quote]No linking to other sites from this forum please [/quote]
The article itself though cited things I never considered "fringe" (or I am more alternative than I realized) such as
Meditation, Acupuncture, self-hypnosis, massage, Yoga and Reiki.
It summarized research by the NIH's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. But it also balanced it out with warnings by the chief of Integrative Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering: [quote]We spend half of our time working against quackery. It's really a bad situation. What patients see on the Internet is extremely seductive[/quote]
It ended up on the note that due to the placebo effect: doing something, anything, may have healing powers of its own.
Just thought I share. If you want to read it, you can type in the title: Battling Cancer in the search box on the AARP web site's Health page which otherwise reproduces most of the MD Anderson clinic series of articles on cancer in general.
Hmmn, I'll have to join on line and post a commentary about OCF as a resource.
charm