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If your center provides conventional or integrative oncology care with medical oncologists on staff, or otherwise offers supportive cancer care services across a spectrum of interventions—i.e., nutritional support, exercise physiology, mindfulness-based stress reduction techniques, acupuncture and psychosocial counseling—you should attend at the Eighth International Conference of the Society for Integrative Oncology (SIO), November 10-12, 2011…
In the allopathic world, personalized medicine is all the buzz. Although a decade after decoding the human genome has not yet resulted in the panacea leading to new cures that was once thought, huge strides are being made in growing the knowledge base of genomics, as well as molecular immunology and biotechnology. Over 2000 molecular…
With the Environmental Working Group survey on the country’s water sources recently coming to light through solid reporting by the New York Times, it seemed like an appropriate time to discuss clean, potable water and its importance to our overall health. According to the Times reporting, 20% of the country’s water supply is polluted, affecting…
Although great strides continue to be made as we begin the second decade of the 21st century, modern science still has only a rudimentary understanding of how the human brain works in its entirety. The brain is one of the most complicated organs and arguably the least understood. It is my view that the brain…
In my last post I discussed the importance of making incremental lifestyle changes as you start your journey with a cancer diagnosis and begin to shape the best course of action to confront it. If you have successfully incorporated the first two steps I recommended—increasing your metabolism regularly with low impact exercise and switching…