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Node Smith, ND Japanese study finds convincing evidence that hearing loss in older people is associated with restriction of outdoor activities, anxiety, and memory loss. Hearing loss is the world's fourth-leading cause of years lived with disability The condition may...
Node Smith, ND The 18-year life expectancy gap between people with mental illness and the general population can only be bridged by protecting patients' physical and mental health, according to a new study. Bridging the gap: protecting patients' physical and mental...
Node Smith, ND New research raises questions as to whether too many infants are getting tongue-tie and lip tether surgery (also called frenulectomy) to help improve breastfeeding, despite limited medical evidence supporting the procedure. Are too many infants getting...
Node Smith, ND For the better part of a century, life expectancy in industrialized countries like the United States steadily improved. But during the past three decades, and particularly since 2010, the trend has slowed or, in some places, reversed for non-Hispanic...
Node Smith, ND Atypical eating behaviors may be a sign a child should be screened for autism, according to a new study from Penn State College of Medicine. Atypical eating behaviors were present in 70 percent of children with autism Research by Susan Mayes, professor...
Erica Peirson, ND Every specialty of medicine needs to understand the role that thyroid hormone plays on the organ system in which they specialize. Neurology is just 1 example. This is due to the fact that thyroid hormone, unlike any other hormone in the body, affects...
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Node Smith, ND The study, by the University of the West of England and the Greenpeace Research Laboratories at the University of Exeter, presents the hypothesis that disease risks are "ultimately interlinked" with biodiversity and natural processes such as the water...
Node Smith, ND The brain has a high energy demand and reacts very sensitively to oxygen deficiency. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich neurobiologists have now succeeded for the first time in directly correlating oxygen consumption with the activity of...
Node Smith, ND After only a few days caring for critically ill COVID-19 patients at the start of the outbreak in New York City, Aakriti Gupta, MD, realized that this was much more than a respiratory disease. "On the front lines right from the beginning..." "I was on...
Node Smith, ND We humans may not always see eye to eye on politics, religion, sports and other matters of debate. But at least we can agree on the location and size of objects in our physical surroundings. Or can we? Can we really see eye-to-eye? Not according to new...
Jillian Stansbury, ND In addition to genetic predisposition to androgenic alopecia and poor circulatory health, stress may exacerbate the process. Acute stress causes hair loss in animals and humans. One investigation of serum cortisol levels and glucocorticoid...
Anne Williams, ND, LAc Though mechanisms have been provided for interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome (IC/BPS), a clear pathoetiology has evaded this diagnosis. Excess mast-cell activation, presence of antiproliferative factor (APF),1 and glycosaminoglycan...
Rebeccah Shalev, ND Honorable Mention Research Review Conventional treatments for PCOS generally focus on controlling symptoms related to the anovulation, insulin resistance, and/or hyperandrogenism common to the syndrome. Different medications – none without side...
Vanessa Ferreira, ND Student Scholarship – 2nd Place Case Study Herpes zoster, or shingles, is a viral infection caused by the reactivation of the varicella-zoster virus (VZV). This virus, which lays dormant in the dorsal root ganglia after a primary infection of...
EILEEN PARK, IBCLC, ND Breastfeeding is a biological norm, and the risks of not breastfeeding are well known by the public and well accepted in medicine. As a result, a recent national survey showed that over 90% of mothers in Canada initiate breastfeeding.1 However,...
Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine have many uses when it comes to our health. New research is exploring its use with various dermatologic conditions. A meta-analysis compiled studies that looked at acupuncture treatment for atopic dermatitis, urticarial,...
You have an extensive background as a CEO in a diverse number of industries, what will your experience bring to the Boucher Institute of Naturopathic Medicine? Running a business has to do with having a vision and a strong desire to execute on that. That desire comes...
A recent study examined the association between prenatal smoking and the affects on pubertal development and hormones. Lutenizing hormone (LH) and inhibin B hormones were monitored to see the affects of both environmental tobacco smoke and prenatal smoking in girls...
California: A case-control study conducted from the California Cancer Registry was done in order to examine the effects of air toxins and cancer risk. All cases of medulloblastoma, central nervous system primitive neuroectodermal tumors (PNET), and astrocytomas before...
In a study by the Department of Pediatrics at the Ewha Womans University School of Medicine in Seoul, South Korea, researchers looked at the metabolic effects of PCOS in children. Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome is one of the common endocrine disorders amongst women of...
Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine have many uses when it comes to our health. New research is exploring its use with various dermatologic conditions. A meta-analysis compiled studies that looked at acupuncture treatment for atopic dermatitis, urticarial,...
You have an extensive background as a CEO in a diverse number of industries, what will your experience bring to the Boucher Institute of Naturopathic Medicine? Running a business has to do with having a vision and a strong desire to execute on that. That desire comes...
A recent study examined the association between prenatal smoking and the affects on pubertal development and hormones. Lutenizing hormone (LH) and inhibin B hormones were monitored to see the affects of both environmental tobacco smoke and prenatal smoking in girls...
California: A case-control study conducted from the California Cancer Registry was done in order to examine the effects of air toxins and cancer risk. All cases of medulloblastoma, central nervous system primitive neuroectodermal tumors (PNET), and astrocytomas before...
In a study by the Department of Pediatrics at the Ewha Womans University School of Medicine in Seoul, South Korea, researchers looked at the metabolic effects of PCOS in children. Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome is one of the common endocrine disorders amongst women of...
Ministers in the UK are now considering banning homeopathy treatments after recent pressure from the “Good Thinking Society.” The Good Thinking Society is a nonprofit organization promoting scientific skepticism. They recently have made a case against homeopathy,...
A recent study out of the UCLA is now suggesting that memory loss can be reversed. A small study involving 10 participants were all given individualized programs to reverse memory loss due to Alzheimer’s. Nine of the participants in the study showed subjective or...
Seattle- A newly released study is showing that vitamin D status could be linked to carpal tunnel syndrome for woman under 50. Women who were undergoing carpal tunnel release surgery were tested for vitamin D status and it was discovered that they had significantly...
ATLANTA –Responding to the billions of advertising dollars being spent to promote prescription products, physicians at the Interim Meeting of the American Medical Association (AMA) today adopted a new policy aimed at driving solutions to make prescription drugs more...
Research can now show through the use of computerized tomography (CT) scans with phase contrast imaging that there is differences seen at acupuncture point locations. When CT scans were analyzed it showed that there are definite areas of distinction related to point...
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Node Smith, ND When it fires, a neuron consumes significantly more energy than an equivalent computer operation. And yet, a network of coupled neurons can continuously learn, sense and perform complex tasks at energy levels that are currently unattainable for even...
Node Smith, ND Sometimes cancer stays put, but often it metastasizes, spreading to new locations in the body. It has long been suspected that genetic mutations arising inside tumor cells drive this potentially devastating turn of events. Researchers have shown for the...
