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What Alternative Medicine Can Do For You

Posted Monday, December 3, 2007

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Not too long ago, alternative medicine -- acupuncture, herbs, and the like -- struggled for recognition and respectability. That's no longer the case. Science tells us alternative therapies really do help to cure what ails you, and more physicians are prescribing them to their patients. Monday morning at 9, we'll talk about alternative medicine, moving from the margins to the mainstream.

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Health, Children's Health, Aging/The Elderly, Community/Human Interest, Parenting/Child Care

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David Fresco, Ph.D Associate Professor of Psychology, Kent State University
Bradford Fenton, M.D. Ph.D., Medical Director, the Pelvic Pain Specialty Center, Summa Health System, Akron-Canton Hospitals
John Longhurst, M.D. Ph.D., Director, Susan Samueli Center for Integrative Medicine, University of California at Irvine

Additional Information

More on Dr. Fresco's meditation study
For the local information clearinghouse Mind-Body-Spirit Connected

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