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An Analysis of Four Government-Funded Reviews of Research on Homeopathic Medicine
Homeopathic medicine is a controversial system of medicine that has been used worldwide for over 200 years. Recently, several governments, in part, owing to government-funded reviews of research on homeopathic medicine, have stopped reimbursements for homeopathic medicines and have discouraged their use by medical professionals.
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Environment and health
A clean environment is essential for human health and well-being. At the same time, the local environment can also be a source of stressors - for example air pollution, noise, hazardous chemicals - that negatively affect health.
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How To Optimize Your Immune System & Fight Viruses with Dr Roger Seheult
Dr. Rangan Chatterjee’s recent podcast episode is all about the immune system and his guest is Dr Roger Seheult. He is a California based medical doctor, who practises as a critical care doctor also specialising in pulmonology and sleep.
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Trees and Offsetting your Carbon Footprint
Many entities, companies, and individuals acknowledge the environmental damage caused by the carbon dioxide released into the air around us by the services and products we use. Consequently, they are interested in offsetting the carbon footprint by taking actions that remove greenhouse gases from the air around us. One simple approach to offsetting the carbon footprint is to plant trees, which consume carbon dioxide through photosynthesis.
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NIH research projects on interoception to improve understanding of brain-body function
The interoception research effort is part of NIH’s Blueprint for Neuroscience Research, and the seven studies receiving grants are expected to advance researchers’ understanding of nervous system function and disorders and the role of interoception in human health.
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How Email Can Negatively Impact Your Mental Health (and What To Do About It)
Bad emailing habits are not just “inconvenient,” they can be fundamentally damaging for staff members’ mental health and productivity. This guide will show you how email can negatively affect mental health, along with steps employees and managers can take to reduce email-related stress.
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In a common genetic disorder, blood test reveals when benign tumors turn cancerous
Researchers from the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Center for Cancer Research, part of the National Institutes of Health, and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a blood test that, they believe, could one day offer a highly sensitive and inexpensive approach to detect cancer early in people with NF1. The blood test could also help doctors monitor how well patients are responding to treatment for their cancer.
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Nutritional Therapy Strategies for Long-COVID
It is still unclear as to why some people experience the virus more, or less, severely, and why prolonged symptoms linger in some but not in others. Inevitably there are still more questions than answers as the studies play catch-up with the reality of people living their lives blighted by persistent symptoms. Dubbed as ‘long-haulers’ these people are now seeking therapeutic strategies to alleviate and support long-COVID symptoms in a bid to get back to full health as quickly as possible.
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In Conversation: The neurocognitive impact of long COVID
For many people, long COVID has associations with serious neurological and neurocognitive impairments, a phenomenon sometimes known as neuro-COVID. Why does this happen, and who is most at risk?
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‘It’s a miracle crop’: the pioneers pushing the powers of seaweed
Kelp can clean New York’s polluted waters, tackle climate change and is sustainable – but growers need a law change first. Motoring out of Montauk Harbor aboard a research vessel, Sean Barrett waves hello to a commercial fishing boat, yelling “What up, Jay! Any slipper snails in there?”
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Concrete construction “offsets around one half” of emissions caused by cement industry says IPCC
Around half of the carbon emissions from cement production are reabsorbed by the material when used in buildings and infrastructure, according to the latest IPCC climate report.
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