The Al & Malka Green Artists’ Health Centre (AHC) at Toronto Western Hopsital is an integrative clinic addressing the unique health care needs of Toronto’s artistic community. Learn how this one-of-a-kind facility, which recently celebrated its 10th anniversary, helps artists to keep creating art.
The Ottawa Integrative Cancer Centre, the first integrative cancer care and research centre in Eastern Canada, and a regional centre of the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine, recently celebrated its official Grand Opening with a ribbon cutting ceremony. The Centre is committed to bridging the gap between conventional and complementary cancer care and research.
Go Green Inside (R) recently attended the Canadian Health Food Association’s largest conference and trade show for the natural health and organics industry, CHFA East 2012. Just in time to celebrate Natural Health Products Week, here are our top picks from among the new natural health products and foods that were launched at the show.
The combination of a high quality multi-vitamin/mineral and a few other select supplements can be an excellent foundation from which to assure a baseline level of good health for yourself and your family. Here’s what you should consider when thinking about supplementation to enhance the level of nutrition you already receive from a healthy diet.
Findings of a new research study demonstrate that the placebo effect can be activated outside of conscious awareness, and provide an explanation for how patients can show clinical improvement even when they receive treatments devoid of active ingredients or of known therapeutic effect.
With health care costs skyrocketing due to the increased incidence of chronic diseases, aging populations and the reliance on expensive technologies and pharmaceuticals, health care reform in its present form is doomed to failure. True health care reform requires the creation of a system of health promotion and illness prevention, as well as the use of effective alternatives to expensive, invasive therapies where appropriate. This system of medicine already exists in the form of Integrative Medicine, healing-oriented medicine that takes into account the whole person, including lifestyle; emphasizes the therapeutic relationship; and makes use of both conventional and complementary & alternative therapies. Integrative physician Dr. Esther Konigsberg shares her experiences practising Integrative Medicine, and explains its potential for healing your health, and the health care system.
Lyme disease has been in the headlines recently, with warmer-than-usual temperatures early this spring resulting in a proliferation of black ticks, the bearers of Lyme disease, throughout the eastern US and Canada. Here’s what you need to know and do to protect yourself and your family this summer.
Our earlier-than-usual spring, combined with dry weather conditions predicted for the summer, has experts suggesting there will be a higher incidence of allergies and a longer allergy season this year. Here are some strategies for managing allergies naturally…
A whole system of medicine that is more than 250 years old, homeopathy is as loved by patients as it is maligned by skeptics. What is it and why does it endure? And how might it help your acute or chronic health problems?
Both obesity and inflammation have been shown to be related to several types of cancer. In a recently published study, postmenopausal women who were overweight and lost at least 5 percent of their body weight had a measurable reduction in inflammation.
