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	<title>Religion News Blog &#187; Alternative Healing</title>
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		<title>Ayurvedic medicines often contaminated by toxic metals, study says</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22265/ayurvedic-medicines-alternative-healing</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22265/"><img src="http://www.religionnewsblog.com/graphicspics/ayurvedic-medicines.jpg" alt="Alternative healing" width="90" height="90" border="0" style="float:left;padding-right:5px;" title="Book review of Trick or Treatment"></a> A fifth of the nearly 200 concoctions tested contained levels of the toxic metals that, if taken at the maximum recommended doses, would surpass California's safety guidelines.<br /><br />Also: a review of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393066614/ref=nosim/buytoday-20">Trick or Treatment</a>, in which Simon Singh and Dr. Edzard Ernst report the results of hundreds of studies on the purported benefits of various alternative-medicine treatments.]]></description>
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		<title>Alternative medicine must face scientific scrutiny, conference hears</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[More than 600 practitioners and scientists from 19 countries are meeting in Edmonton to talk about how to assess the benefits and risks of alternative therapies.
Complementary medical treatments such as acupuncture, massage or herbal remedies are often dismissed by conventional health experts, but that hasn&#8217;t deterred people from seeking the remedies.
An estimated 70 per cent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alternative Medicine Provider Is Sentenced</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/14214/alternative-medicine-provider-is-sentenced</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Golden, Colo. (AP) &#8212; An alternative medicine practitioner was sentenced Monday to 13 years in prison in the death of a 19-year-old cancer victim who underwent a procedure in which his blood was exposed to ultraviolet light.
Brian O&#8217;Connell pleaded guilty last month to criminally negligent homicide in the death of Sean Flanagan. He also pleaded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A groundbreaking experiment &#8230; or a sensationalised TV stunt?</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/14111/a-groundbreaking-experiment-or-a-sensationalised-tv-stunt</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A major BBC series claimed to show new evidence of the power of alternative medicine. Now scientists who worked on it say it was flawed and hyped
The BBC series Alternative Medicine was widely regarded as a great success: its first episode, broadcast in January, attracted 3.8 million viewers, making it BBC2&#8217;s second most watched programme [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science accuses BBC of medical quackery</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/14094/science-accuses-bbc-of-medical-quackery</link>
		<comments>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/14094/science-accuses-bbc-of-medical-quackery#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of Britain’s leading scientists have accused the BBC of “quackery” by misleading viewers in an attempt to exaggerate the power of alternative medicine.
The criticisms centre on Alternative Medicine, a series broadcast on BBC2 in January, in which some of the most memorable scenes included open-heart surgery apparently carried out using acupuncture as an anaesthetic.
In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mind Medicine: What Proof?</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/14060/mind-medicine-what-proof</link>
		<comments>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/14060/mind-medicine-what-proof#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A research review published in 2002 in an Australian medical journal linked transcendental meditation (TM) to decreased hypertension. The authors concluded that the technique was promising for prevention and treatment of heart disease.
A similar review published last year in the Journal of Hypertension found insufficient evidence to conclude whether TM lowers blood pressure.
Inconsistent results like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alternative treatment—even when fake—as effective as medical drugs</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/14112/alternative-treatmenteven-when-fakeas-effective-as-medical-drugs</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Acupuncture shown to relieve migraines
LONDON - Acupuncture, one of the most popular complementary treatments, works as well as standard drugs for migraines, German researchers said on Thursday.
They compared the effects of real and fake acupuncture with drug treatments for migraine and found all equally effective.
“The main finding is that Chinese acupuncture is as effective as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May the force be with you</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/12690/may-the-force-be-with-you</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The family room in Rita Oldani&#8217;s south St. Louis County basement was perfect for unblocking some chakras one rainy evening.
Several massage tables were lined up on one side of the room, harp music and incense permeated the air and candles twinkled from every nook and corner.
Oldani, 42, of St. Louis, is a reiki master. She [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alternative medicine prescribed a bitter pill</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/12171/alternative-medicine-prescribed-a-bitter-pill</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The world may be beating a path to the doors of homeopathic practitioners as an alternative to conventional medicines, but a study has concluded they may just as well be taking nothing.
The study, published in yesterday&#8217;s edition of the medical journal The Lancet, is likely to anger the growing number of followers of alternative therapies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fatal mumbo-jumbo</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/12092/fatal-mumbo-jumbo</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The government is dealing in deceit when it allows public money to be wasted on alternative remedies
According to his supporters, our next sovereign and his first wife couldn&#8217;t have been a greater mismatch. Prince Charles was the upholder of the old values of restraint and sober thinking. He may have been buttoned-up, but his dullness [...]]]></description>
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