Hello and welcome to the Wren. Approaching our 21st year, we are one of the longest established complementary health clinics in the City of London. Our practitioners are all highly trained, have generally been qualified and in practice for more than three years, and many of them are involved in coaching and teaching.
We hope that you will enjoy reading about the many therapies on offer, and spread the word to friends and colleagues.
The latest news in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)
- The Effects of Spirituality in Medical Treatment
The National Cancer Institute stated that in a large survey of cancer survivors, 61 percent reported using spirituality and prayer as a complementary treatment.
Spiritual healing includes intercessory prayer, also called distance healing and distance prayer. With intercessory prayer, the person praying asks a higher power to intervene to help a person, who may or may not be known by the prayer.
Read more: - Soy may improve cancer treatment
Dr. Victor Marchione has reported for the Doctors Health Press, “Healing Food Could Boost Cancer Treatment.” A new study has discovered that compounds in soy could improve the effects of cancer radiotherapy. The target was lung cancer, which is the most difficult of all cancers to cure. These researchers found that soybeans can help the therapy to be more effective, while preserving more healthy tissue.
There have been heated public debates and court battles over the years regarding the benefits of natural health care to orthodox treatments for cancer. Complementary medicine, which refers to use of alternative medicine together with conventional medicine, is often seen as offering the best hope for many cancer patients. People suffering from cancer in Syracuse who are being treated with orthodox interventions and who are seeking a better prognosis should therefore welcome news that soy may enhance the effects of cancer radiotherapy.
Read more: - Multiple medicines use very common: New snapshot of over-50s' medicine habits
The national survey of Australians aged 50 and over found that on the day the snapshot was taken:
•Medicines were used by the majority of Australians (87% of Australians aged 50 and over used at least one medicine)
•The use of multiple medicines was common with one third of 50-64 year olds, almost half of 65-74 year olds, and two thirds of people aged 75 and over taking five or more medicines on that day; and
•Women were more likely overall to be medicine users than men (90.3% versus 83.9%).
NPS CEO Dr Lynn Weekes says the study’s findings emphasise the importance of the availability of accurate information about medicines, and of health professionals speaking with their patients about the medicines they are taking.
Read more: - Global Traditional Medicine Market to Reach US$114 Billion by 2015
Consumer interest in alternative medicine (AM) is accelerating across the globe on account of rising healthcare costs associated with contemporary therapies. A growing number of individuals are falling prey to hypertension, depression, sleep disorders, and other lifestyle-related diseases, and are resorting to conventional medical treatments to cure or prevent the onset of such conditions. Complementary and alternative medicine currently provide healthcare to about 75 percent of the population in developing nations and over 50 percent of the population in the developed world for lifestyle-related diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. Health Insurance companies, such as those in the US, are increasingly offering patients coverage for more kinds of CAM and AM therapies.
- Hospitals are making room for alternative therapies
According to a recent survey by the American Hospital Assn. and the Samueli Institute, a nonprofit research group focusing on complementary medicine, 42% of the 714 hospitals that responded offered at least one such therapy in 2010; five years earlier, only 27% of hospitals offered such treatments.
Experts say hospitals are embracing these therapies for many reasons, including a growing recognition that some integrative therapies, as they’re also called, are very effective in certain instances.
