Vitex agnus-castus is a perfect example of a modern medicinal plant, with important clinical applications, validated by modern science, and known and used by the ancient Greeks. From the writings of three of the best-known herbalists and healers of...
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The application of walking exercise to special populations may serve as one of the best reasons yet to start on a
Why is it that so many physicians seem to think that birth is a surgical solution to a nine-month disease? Although good medical care is so important for the health of the mother and infant in high risk situations, physicians intervene too often in...
Today there seems to be an endless array of fitness programs and equipment for persons to use to enhance fitness. However, the emerging component of exercise and fitness program is health enhancement. In pregnancy, every task performed during the...
Otitis media has become the commonest pediatric diagnosis made by physicians who care for children in the United States, [note 1] with an annual budget topping $2 billion in 1982, [note 2] and no relief in sight. After decades of punishing warfare...
We all know that caring for a child's health begins before birth. Prenatal health care has become standard protocol in the field of preventive medicine. Some experts and advocacy groups, however, are saying that the mother--and father--need to pay...
In at least 80% of children with developmental delays, including attention deficits and autism, there is a history of traumatic birth. In each diagnosis there are manifestations of various aspects of cerebral dysfunction,which in simple terms mean...
Pregnancy is a special time for both mother and baby. This relationship is so close that almost everything the mother consumes, be it drugs, alcohol or food, is shared with baby across the placental barrier. Nursing babies receive these same...
Very soon after my first course in Osteopathy in the Cranial was fired with enthusiasm to examine newborn babies. Over the next eight years I examined over fifteen hundred babies at a local hospital. All were examined within the first five days of...
The Many Phases of Fertility ;It is possible to be perfectly fertile and not be able t
Christopher Hobbs LAc AHG
Eric P. Durak MSc
Dana Ullman MPH