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Should I . . .?

The most common question I get this time of year is “should I get the flu vaccine?” To answer this question we really need to first look at the efficacy of the vaccine. The influenza A and B viruses for which people are being vaccinated against the account for less than 15% of all flu-like …

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Size Does Matter

Over the last several years there has been numerous studies published in medical journals and lay magazines of the benefits of wine. This has led many people to believe that it is good to drink wine so they will consume 1-2 glasses of wine at dinner time. However, one study that took PET scans of …

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Wanted

I have known Louise for 5-6 years now. She is the type of person that spends a lot of time worrying about her family which consists a daughter and son and recently widowed father. So when she comes in for a routine acupuncture treatment or for just feeling under the weather, we spend a couple …

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Macbeth Effect

A little water clears us of our deeds! Study results published in Science suggest that hand washing “cleanses” the mind of unethical behavior, a result the researchers call the “Macbeth effect.” They asked 170 undergraduate students to focus on their conduct throughout the day. Those who remembered a misdeed were more likely to feel dirty …

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Unsafe Body Parts

If you have to choose between Victor Frankenstein or a safety-breaching donor service, you may be safer with the former. New Scientist reported that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) shut down a firm that supplied body parts for surgery. According to FDA investigators, the firm harvested body parts and tissue from corpses in …

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How homeopathy can help your teenage acne.

Troublesome Acne

We tend to think of acne as a problem with just teenagers. However, it is not uncommon to have adults in the 20’s and 30’s come in with chronic acne that just does not respond to the typical antibiotics and topical creams that dermatologist prescribe. Julie, who is in her lat 20’s, has had acne …

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