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Brain Hardwired for Spirituality

NODE SMITH, ND More than 80 percent of people around the world consider themselves to be religious or spiritual. But research on the neuroscience of spirituality and religiosity has been sparse. Previous studies have used functional neuroimaging, in which an...

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Memory Helps Us Make ‘In the Moment’ Decisions

NODE SMITH, ND Scientists have long known the brain's hippocampus is crucial for long-term memory. Now a new Northwestern Medicine study has found the hippocampus also plays a role in short-term memory and helps guide decision-making. The findings shed light on how...

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Giving C-Section Babies Healthy Bacteria

NODE SMITH, ND Babies born by cesarean section don't have the same healthy bacteria as those born vaginally, but a Rutgers-led study for the first time finds that these natural bacteria can be restored. The study appears in the journal Med. The human microbiota...

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New Paradigms for Aging Well

New Paradigms for Aging Well

Naturopathic Perspective Pamela Sky Jeanne, ND Aging is a process most people deny until it is right up front, presenting at times as an illness or physical disability. The joke is on us when we wake up one morning and realize it has actually happened. Today I am 70;...

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Demystifying Professional Formation

David J. Schleich, PhD Although in use for many years in the higher education literature about professions such as medicine, law, architecture, dentistry, and so on, the term “professional formation” continues to befuddle those who encounter it. Our own naturopathic...

A Ball of Fire

Joseph Kellerstein, DC, ND Franklin, a 47-year-old male, had called the college clinic quite a number of times. Desperation is hard to watch. Rachel at the front desk patiently encouraged him to give homeopathy a try. “It won’t hurt,” she would patiently repeat....

Food Introduction Controversies

Michelle Gerber, ND, CPM Early parenthood is filled with difficult decisions, one of the most potentially fraught being that of food — how to introduce it, when to introduce it, and what to introduce. And few things seem more fundamental to naturopathic medicine than...

Early Onset Bipolar Disorder: A Case Study

Tara Skye Goldin, ND Early onset bipolar disorder is being diagnosed at an alarming rate. When I first started out in practice nearly 20 years ago, the thinking was that bipolar disorder was a disease that had its typical onset in late adolescence and early adulthood...

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Hydrotherapy- Part 2

Hydrotherapy- Part 2

JAMES SENSENIG, ND LETITIA DICK-KRONENBERG, ND, VNMI   This column is transcribed from a weekly live conversation produced by the Naturopathic Medical Institute (NMI). The goal of NMI is to preserve and promote the principles of naturopathic philosophy...

Holographic Camera Can See Inside Skull?

Holographic Camera Can See Inside Skull?

Edited By NODE SMITH, ND From Northwestern University-- Northwestern University researchers have invented a new high-resolution camera that can see the unseen -- including around corners and through scattering media, such as skin, fog or potentially even the human...

Coronavirus: France deaths at city 14,400 ahead Macron lockdown

Struggling to sell one multi-million dollar home currently on the market won’t stop actress and singer Jennifer Lopez from expanding her property collection. Lopez has reportedly added to her real estate holdings an eight-plus acre estate in Bel-Air anchored by a...

What Happens to Info on Facebook when Someone Dies?

Node Smith, ND New analysis by academics from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) predicts the dead may outnumber the living on Facebook within fifty years, a trend that will have grave implications for how we treat our digital heritage in the future. Analysis...

New Research on Anti-Cancer Botanicals

Node Smith, ND A team of NUS researchers has recently discovered that the Bandicoot Berry (Leea indica), South African leaf (Vernonia amygdalina) and Simpleleaf Chastetree (Vitex trifolia), which are favorite nectaring plants of butterflies, do more than attract...

Graphene Flakes Show Promising Effects on Neurons

Node Smith, ND Like in a science fiction novel, miniscule spacecrafts able to reach a specific site of the brain and influence the operation of specific types of neurons or drug delivery: graphene flakes, the subject matter of the new study of the group of SISSA...

Link Between Mitochondrial Damage and Osteoporosis

Node Smith, ND New research from the School of Veterinary Medicine provides a possible mechanism by which alcohol, cigarette smoke, and exposure to certain medications and toxins can weaken bone. Researchers haven’t gained a firm picture of how exposures are linked...

40% of Antibiotic Prescriptions May be Inappropriately Prescribed

Node Smith, ND Outpatient healthcare providers inappropriately prescribed antibiotics to 40 percent of patients in a major Veterans Affairs healthcare system, a higher figure than in previous studies examining outpatient antibiotic use, according to a new study...

Study Looks at Differences in Measles Transmission Risks

Node Smith, ND Research that may come to affect contact tracing and infection control measures in future measles outbreaks has now been presented. A study of an outbreak of measles in Gothenburg, Sweden, a year ago shows large differences in the risk of transmission...

The Damage Done by Snoring

Node Smith, ND The recurrent vibrations caused by snoring can lead to injuries in the upper airways of people who snore heavily. This in turn, can cause swallowing dysfunction and render individuals more vulnerable for developing the severe condition obstructive sleep...

Link Between Mitochondrial Damage and Osteoporosis

Node Smith, ND New research from the School of Veterinary Medicine provides a possible mechanism by which alcohol, cigarette smoke, and exposure to certain medications and toxins can weaken bone. Researchers haven’t gained a firm picture of how exposures are linked...

40% of Antibiotic Prescriptions May be Inappropriately Prescribed

Node Smith, ND Outpatient healthcare providers inappropriately prescribed antibiotics to 40 percent of patients in a major Veterans Affairs healthcare system, a higher figure than in previous studies examining outpatient antibiotic use, according to a new study...

Study Looks at Differences in Measles Transmission Risks

Node Smith, ND Research that may come to affect contact tracing and infection control measures in future measles outbreaks has now been presented. A study of an outbreak of measles in Gothenburg, Sweden, a year ago shows large differences in the risk of transmission...

The Damage Done by Snoring

Node Smith, ND The recurrent vibrations caused by snoring can lead to injuries in the upper airways of people who snore heavily. This in turn, can cause swallowing dysfunction and render individuals more vulnerable for developing the severe condition obstructive sleep...

Graphene May be the Next Big Thing in Water Purification

Node Smith, ND For those who are unfamiliar with graphene, it is the world’s strongest man-made material, and occupies a space that is only one atom thick. Oh, and its transparent, which may be redundant, since its only one atom thick. It was developed in 2004, and...

VIATREXX ANNOUNCES LAUNCH OF INJECTABLE PRODUCTS

(Newark, DE – June 1, 2019) Viatrexx has concluded the steps required to start producing and manufacturing its' line of sterile injectable products and will begin launching June 1st. Since the sterile injectables are manufactured, they can be acquired as Rx office...

American BioDental Center

American BioDental Center has been the leading biological dentistry clinic in Tijuana, Mexico for over 20 years. Our facility is the only one to have attached dental lab, medical, and corrective chiropractic clinics onsite, specializing in combining world class...

Ginkgo Seed Extract for Bacterial Skin Infections

Node Smith, ND Extracts from the seeds of the Ginkgo biloba tree show antibacterial activity on pathogens that can cause skin infections such as acne, psoriasis, dermatitis and eczema, a study at Emory University finds. Frontiers in Microbiology is publishing the...

Philanthropy & Naturopathic Medicine: What Gives?

Education David J. Schleich, PhD Because the healthcare and higher-education sectors are in turmoil and many are worried, the role of philanthropy to keep it all going is important to understand. As enrollments in the education sector contract for a while, the value...

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