My guest is Ninu-Alexandri Quirk, MD who transformed her ordinary medical practice into empathic Holistic Medicine. She offers eye-popping insights into the current practice of medicine and describes the latest holistic medical approaches to physical and psychological problems. – Podcast: Play in new window | Download (12.6MB) | Embed
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SOME clinical trials for breast cancer treatments are being “spun” by scientists anxious to show them in a positive light, according to a new report.An examination of research findings revealed almost a third of trials examined failed to find a statistically significant benefit for the treatment, yet still focused …
Some of the world’s leading social critics and political critics have used pen names. As Tyler Durden of Zero Hedge points out (edited slightly for readability): Though often maligned (typically by those frustrated by an inability to engage in ad hominem attacks), anonymous speech has a long and storied …
American public education has been in trouble for a lot longer than many people believe, according to the author of the following post. He is Marion Brady, a classroom teacher for years who has written history and world culture textbooks (Prentice-Hall), professional books, numerous nationally distributed columns (many are available …
If you pay attention to the upcoming Senate Banking Committee confirmation hearings for President Obama’s nominee to head the Securities and Exchange Commission, Mary Jo White, you probably will not hear the term “regulatory capture” (aka the catch-all term for industries controlling the parts of government that are supposed …
Making solar cells with a process similar to spray-painting could significantly lower their cost and make them available to people in developing countries. The method spray-coats a photovoltaic active layer by an air based process—similar to spraying regular paint from a can—to develop a cheaper technique which can …
Of the thousands of “Avatar” screenings held during the film’s record global release wave, none tethered the animated allegory to reality like a rainy day matinee in Quito, Ecuador. It was late January 2010 when a non-governmental organization bused Indian chiefs from the Ecuadorean Amazon to …
This past week has been a strangely clarifying political moment. It was caused by two related events: the leak of the Justice Department’s “white paper” justifying Obama’s claimed power to execute Americans without charges, followed by John Brennan’salarming confirmation hearing (as Charles Pierce wrote: “the man whom the administration has put up …
Hillary Clinton has completed her four-year tenure as Secretary of State to the accolades of both Democratic and Republican Congressional champions of the budget-busting “military-industrial complex,” that President Eisenhower warned about in his farewell address. Behind the public relations sheen, the photo-opportunities with groups of poor people in the …
Back in 2008, at the onset of the derivatives and credit collapse, I wrote several economic editorials discussing what I saw as the single most vital trend in the global fiscal system, and how it would cause a disastrous upheaval that would leave the U.S. and the dollar financially …
Update: Jean-Claude Duvalier did not appear in court as planed on February 7, 2013. He was represented by his lawyer who read a letter in which Duvalier explained his absence. His audition was reported for the 4th time and will be held on February 21, 2013. Duvalier could face arrest if he …
Thousands of Ethiopians are being driven off ancestral lands that the government’s selling to foreign investors buying vast swathes of farmland, a U.S. watchdog reports. Amid a new rash of land grabs in Africa by foreign governments or business groups seeking to produce food for export, the Oakland …
On February 11, Pyongyang informed Washington and China of its intentions. February 12 headlines explained. They said North Korea conducted its third nuclear test. Russia’s Defense Ministry estimated a blast exceeding seven kilotons. The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) measured the yield at …
Obama’s annual State of the Union addresses reflect beginning-to-end doublespeak duplicity. Empty rhetoric signals business as usual. Policy prioritizes corporate empowerment, rewarding rich elites, letting popular needs go begging, funding America’s war machine, and cracking down hard on non-believers. Obama does what his …
For the first time, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has publicly released a draft plan on how the department’s programmes will adapt to global warming, in a move that could lay additional groundwork for important new emissions rulemaking the agency may announce in coming months. The EPA …