Integrative Medicine Alert – November 1, 2008
November 1, 2008
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The Effect of Lifestyle and Diet on Fertility: Fertility-Enhancing Lifestyle Modifications
More than 7% of married couples (2.1 million) in the united States are infertile. Defined as the failure to conceive after one year of regular unprotected sexual intercourse, infertility is a chronic health problem for young adults. -
Aristolochic Acid and Renal Toxicity
Early in 1992, two women in their 40s were treated for renal failure in a hospital in Brussels, Belgium. Both had been healthy and not recently taking any medications, although one had previously used a beta-agonist asthma inhaler for 8 years. -
Clinical Briefs With Comments from Russell H. Greenfield, MD.
Goal: To assess the effect of Tai Chi Chuan (TCC) training on risk factors for coronary artery disease (CAD) in people with dyslipidemia. -
News Brief: Enrollment Halted in Trial Studying Chelation Therapy for Treatment of CAD
Enrollment into the Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy (TACT), a five-year, $30-million National Institutes of Health-funded clinical study, has been stopped, according to Heartwire, a professional news service of WebMD.