September 19, 2019 -- The American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP) has selected DaVinci Laboratories as the recipient of the “Corporation of the Year” award for outstanding service to the naturopathic medical profession. A provider of high-quality...
Node Smith, ND A recent report by the New Jersey Poison Control Center at Rutgers University showed a rise in suicide attempts by pre-teens over the past 18 months; a trend that has been seen across the nation. Rise in suicide attempts by pre-teens over the past 18...
Node Smith, ND It turns out creating tiny injuries on your face with needles actually helps decrease the appearance of acne scars. Microneedling helps rejuvenation and decreases inflammation and scarring Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM)...
Node Smith, ND There is nothing to be gained by operating on a patient with a so-called displaced fracture of the shoulder. Three weeks with the arm in a sling so that the shoulder is kept inactive yields the same results. This is documented by a new study with...
Node Smith, ND Researchers found that people who ate high levels of vitamin A were 17 percent less likely to get the second-most-common type of skin cancer years later. A healthy diet rich in vitamin A may reduce risk for getting the second-most-common type of skin...
Daniel Chong, ND Joel Kahn, MD, FACC Heart failure (HF) is a syndrome of cardiac dysfunction in which the heart can no longer pump enough blood around the body to support its organs and systems. Identified risk factors for HF include conditions that damage the heart,...
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Student Scholarship – Honorable Mention Case Study ASPEN PERCIVAL ALICIA BIGELOW, ND Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States.1 In the year 2010, approximately 200 000 Americans...
Naturopathic News SARAH LOBISCO, ND, IFMCP July 9-11, 2020 was blocked out in my calendar to attend the annual American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP) convention. This year it would be a virtual experience; however, the event still provided...
Naturopathic News BARON GLASSGOW, IOM, CAE The mission of the Arizona Naturopathic Medical Association (AzNMA) is to promote naturopathic medicine and create opportunities for naturopathic physicians to thrive....
ALYSSA DIRIENZO, ND Stress and anxiety are ubiquitous these days. Especially now – with the copious stressors associated with this pandemic, such as job loss, working from home, home-schooling, and now racial injustice as...
According to a study out of the University of California – Los Angeles published in the International Journal of Obesity, relying on body mass index (BMI), a numerical measure of a person’s height and weight, as a proxy for health incorrectly labels more than 54...
A new study published in the International Journal of Obesity links antibiotic use to childhood body mass index trajectory. The study was comprised of children aged 3-18 and the researchers used mixed effects linear regression to model associations of antibiotic...
According to a new study by the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, researchers discuss their findings on the effects of antenatal exposure to a high fructose diet on the offspring’s development of metabolic syndrome-like phenotype and cardiovascular disease later in...
According to research from the Andersen lab at the Buck Institute, published online in The Journal of Neuroscience, there is a link between excess iron and Parkinson’s Disease. The study shows that the damage the excess iron found in the brains of patients with...
A study out of South Africa looked at the interaction between different essential oils to determine the validity of the combination of the oils in the treatment of ailments, especially Lavandula angustifolia. Essential oils, which form part of naturopathic therapy,...
According to researchers out of the University of Edinburgh, reducing the meat consumption from one of the world’s biggest beef producing regions might not lower greenhouse gas emissions. The study that was published in the journal Nature Climate Change, evaluated the...
In a study out of Brazil, researchers evaluated the relationship between the functioning of the hypothalamaic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and major depressive episodes in the remote postpartum period. The participants were women between 23 and 33 years old about six...
In a paper published in the Annuls of Internal Medicine by the American College of Physicians (ACP), the authors in combination with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention give advice to physicians on prescribing antibiotics for acute respiratory tract...
In a study headed up by the Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, researchers found that breastmilk from obese mothers has pro-inflammatory properties and decreased neuroprotective factors. In a notably-small sample size of...
February 11, 2016 Update #1 (please read first posting here) Paul Herscu, ND, MPH Herscu Laboratory My intention with this post is to continue to lay a foundation and build scaffolding so that when you see data or hear the news or learn of novel discoveries, you will...
According to researchers out of the University of Edinburgh, reducing the meat consumption from one of the world’s biggest beef producing regions might not lower greenhouse gas emissions. The study that was published in the journal Nature Climate Change, evaluated the...
In a study out of Brazil, researchers evaluated the relationship between the functioning of the hypothalamaic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and major depressive episodes in the remote postpartum period. The participants were women between 23 and 33 years old about six...
In a paper published in the Annuls of Internal Medicine by the American College of Physicians (ACP), the authors in combination with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention give advice to physicians on prescribing antibiotics for acute respiratory tract...
In a study headed up by the Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, researchers found that breastmilk from obese mothers has pro-inflammatory properties and decreased neuroprotective factors. In a notably-small sample size of...
February 11, 2016 Update #1 (please read first posting here) Paul Herscu, ND, MPH Herscu Laboratory My intention with this post is to continue to lay a foundation and build scaffolding so that when you see data or hear the news or learn of novel discoveries, you will...
We are deeply saddened to report that Dr. Bruce Shelton of Phoenix, Arizona passed away on February 12th. Dr. Shelton was a holistic medical doctor and champion of homeopathic medicine, with a successful integrative practice. This news was reported by the Arizona...
In a study conducted by Loma Linda University, published by the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers found a possible link between a decreased risk of prostate cancer and vegan diets in men. Researchers looked at a variety of diets including...
According to AZCentral.com, Representative Jay Lawrence out of Scottsdale, pulled his bill that would have banned naturopaths and homeopaths from writing prescriptions for marijuana. The bill would also require patients to renew cards every six months and punish those...
Shawn Peters, Naturopathic Medical Student Dr. Bernard Jensen was a truly historical figure within in the realm of nutrition and naturopathic medicine. Dr. Jensen was born in the early 1900’s and was primarily both a chiropractor (D.C.) and a Nutritionist. He...
In a study published by the Harvard Review of Psychiatry, there could be a link between post-natal depression and the hormone Oxytocin. It is very difficult for mothers suffering from post-natal depression to be there for their children and researchers think hormone...
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Node Smith, ND Researchers with the Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases at the Cumming School of Medicine (CSM) have discovered which gut bacteria help our immune system battle cancerous tumors and how they do it. The discovery may provide a new understanding of why...
Node Smith, ND Our mouths may be home to a newly discovered set of multi-tasking taste cells that -- unlike most known taste cells, which detect individual tastes -- are capable of detecting sour, sweet, bitter and umami stimuli. A research team led by Kathryn Medler...
