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60The Power of Belief: The Power of Placebo
Just think- 40 years ago, the notion that our mind may influence our body was considered a ridiculous notion. Our body was a machine, an object that we could only influence from the outside, not the inside. ...
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60Vibrational Medicine
The type of medicine practiced by the western world in the 19th and 20th centuries is physical medicine. If a foot or some other body part became infected or dysfunctional it would be surgically removed by...
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52Doctors Often Prescribe Placebo Treatments
American doctors regularly prescribe placebo pills that are intended to have a psychological effect, a new survey finds. However, the placebos reported by the 679 physicians in the survey often aren't...
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60What is the problem with Placebo Medicine?
I was amazed to see Homeopathy on the cover of US News and World Report. Even if in the article homeopathy was cited as the poster child of "woo-woo" medicine. Then there was Barrie Cassileth, chief of the...
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54placebo
Placebo is an alternative rock band formed in London in 1994. The band currently is comprised of Brian Molko and Stefan Olsdal. The band formed when Molko and Olsdal, who went to the same school but...
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35Can surgery cure migraines?
A new study claims that surgery — plastic surgery, no less — has the potential to cure migraines. Of 49 patients who underwent the new treatment (similar to a traditional forehead lift), more than half...
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51Hormone Replacement Therapy [HRT] - What is menopause?
Menopause is the time in a woman's life when menstruation ends; It is part of a biological process that begins, for most women, in their mid-thirties. During this time, the ovaries gradually produce lower...
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