MASTERS IN INTEGRATIVE STUDIES OPENS POSSIBILITIES

California Institute for Integral Studies recently launched a new master’s degree program in Integrative Health Studies. The program prepares graduates to take leadership roles in the new field of integrative health, which bridges complementary and alternative healing traditions and Western science and medicine. Graduates work locally and globally in health care administration, health policy making and planning, and health education and research. Class meetings are designed for working professionals and are scheduled on weekends and evenings. Admissions deadline is July 1. Scholarships are available. Call 415.575.6153 for more information or visit www.ciis.edu/academics/ihl.html  

Public Citizen Exposes Frequent Financial Conflicts of Interest at FDA Advisory Committee Meetings
Conflicts of interest at drug advisory committee meetings for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are common and often of considerable monetary value, but rarely result in recusal, finds a study conducted by Public Citizen and published in The Journal of the American Medical Association. The study details financial conflicts of interest between drug advisory committee members and the companies producing the drugs they evaluated; it also examines conflicts with competing companies. The study exposes a weak but statistically significant relationship between certain conflicts and votes in favor of the drug under consideration.

Autism has High Costs to U.S. Society
Caring for all people with autism over their lifetimes costs an estimated $35 billion per year. Autism is a pervasive developmental disorder that involves severe deficits in a person's ability to communicate and interact with others. Since people with autism receive services from a wide variety of sources, researchers believe future research efforts should focus on identifying those sources and linking those costs to non-financial data about the burdens of autism.

Codex Alimentarius Urged to Support Diet, Nutrition, Prevention
Codex Alimentarius has been reluctant to fulfill its responsibilities of improving public health by nutrition and diet. The international agency passed potentially restrictive guidelines on food supplements in its 2005 plenary session but it has now been asked to move towards a more positive policy. In recently filed comments, South Africa has asked that the agency's previous equivocal stand should give way to a clear expression of support for the health of populations through nutrition as an important preventive tool to reflect the World Health Organization's Global strategy on diet, physical activity and health. It remains to be seen whether other countries will support these recommendations. This matter will be on the agendas for the May 2006 Codex Committee on Food Labelling session and the November 2006 Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses session.

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WANT MORE BALANCE, HEALTH & WELLBEING IN YOUR LIFE?

Rising healthcare costs and cuts to employee health benefits are driving us all to one conclusion - we must take a greater responsibility for maintaining our health & wellbeing. The Wellness Inventory helps you do just that. The online program helps you to focus on the areas of your life that you can make the greatest impact in creating a higher level of health and wellbeing, and supports you in making those changes. Bring more balance into your life! To learn more, go to www.mywellnesstest.com/HealthyUpdate.asp

Continuing Our 12-Stage Journey to Wellness
This week our journey focuses on the power of THINKING, the 7th of 12 keys to wellness drawn from the Wellness Inventory whole person assessment program. This stage of the journey relates thinking to physical and mental health, and offers some creative options for using thinking to improve your wellbeing.

Ask Dr. Orloff About Intuitive Healing
Our adjustment to the body is a spiritual issue that can lead to better psychological adjustment while we're here on earth. In "Step Two of Intuitive Healing: Be In Your Body" Judith Orloff, M.D. reminds us that intuitive healing is always body-interactive. Our physical self, our emotions, a healthy body or an organ with disease - our capacity to heal strengthens as we become one with it all.

PASSAGES FROM THE CELTIC MYSTICAL TRAVEL JOURNAL OF FINBARR ROSS AND THE BUTTERFLY TOURS

FRANCE: Well, it feels like I have come home each time I visit. France is a place where one is enveloped in the energies of this European culture with its ancient Celtic roots. This time Claire Heartsong was with us and we had such a magical and mystical time that was felt most strongly at the cave at St. Baume where Mary Magdalene is said to have passed her final years. As we entered the cave we all encountered a vortex of energy and experienced a beautiful state of bliss supercharged with the love of the Mother.

Next we traveled to Saintes Maries de La Mer, where we encountered the powerful presence of the legendary Black Madonna, Saint Sarah, historically revered by the gypsies of Europe and purported to be Mary Magdalene’s daughter. To view our sacred journeys to France this year click on: www.celticmysticaljourneys.com/france.htm

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Integrative Dentistry
Approximately 40 million Americans have some sort of on-going or chronic sleep disorder causing snoring, and another 20 to 30 million have various intermittent sleep apnea. In "Snoring And Sleep Apnea" Flora Parsa Stay, D.D.S. defines these conditions, how to recognize the problem, and non-invasive solutions.

Healthy Alternatives
In the main the problems that affect general health lie in the spinal and cranial regions, as do most of the areas of dysfunction dealt with by those osteopaths whose work is confined to the aches and pains of the musculo-skeletal system. In "Diagnosis" Leon Chaitow, N.D., D.O., M.R.O explains how the professional assesses changes in symmetry, estrictions in mobility and tissue texture changes.

Dr. Christine Horner's Natural Secrets for Breast Health
Eating proper amounts of certain types of fats called omega-3 fatty acid reduces your risk of breast cancer and if you have breast cancer, they will help you fight your disease. In "Supplement Your Diet with Omega-3 Fatty Acids" Christine Horner, M.D., F.A.C.S addresses the four main benefits: decrease the strength of estrogen in the breast tissue, quell the cancer-promoting fires of chronic inflammation, cause breast tumors to shrink in size and prevent them from metastasizing or spreading.

Healthy Man Update
In "Chinese Medicine and Assisted Reproductive Technology for the Modern Couple" Roger C. Hirsh, O.M.D., L.Ac. presents a general introduction to Traditional Chinese Medicine, then offers specific techniques for raising your fertility quotient with TCM treatment.

Find an Alternative Healthcare Professional
The Professional Referral Network contains searchable directories for 20 leading professional associations in complementary and integrative health care, with over 17,000 professionals. Looking for a healthcare professional specializing in progressive treatment of the eyes? The Vision Care/Vision Training section includes the Optometric Extension Program member database.

Healthy Bookstore - Spa Medicine

"Spa Medicine: Your Gateway to the Ageless Zone" by Graham Simpson, M.D., Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., and Jorge Suarez-Menendez, M.D. introduces an exciting new model of health based on integrated medicine, holistic health (diet, exercise, and nutritional supplements), select hormones and controlling inflammation to gain an edge on the process of aging. There is information on detoxification, nutrition, exercise, and mind-body health, as well an alphabetical guide to what vitamins are found in certain foods.

Nutrition Tips
Seeds are the potential for new life that are grown as part of a plant and in some way reach the earth to carry on their species. In "Seeds" Elson M. Haas, M.D. selects three seeds (pumpkin, sesame, and sunflower) and shows how these are high-protein foods, with even more protein than grains. He outlines the nutritional value of seeds, plus cooking and storage tips.

There's a Yogi in the Kitchen!
To most Westerners, curry or "curried" refers to anything that is made with curry powder. In "Lessons in Curry" Siri-Veda Kaur Khalsa teaches us that curry is actually a special dish, while what we call "curry" is really just the normal way of preparing vegetables in India. Learn what spices to use, along with how to buy, prepare and store these spices to have on hand for other curry recipes.

HEALING DRUM KIT - CHRISTINE STEVENS

With a venerable history as a healing art, it’s no surprise that scientists are now finding measurable positive immune system changes following one-hour drumming sessions. With The Healing Drum Kit, internationally acclaimed music therapist Christine Stevens shows you how to use the art of drumming to ignite your creativity, release tension and anxiety, exercise the body, and communicate with a power beyond words.

The Healing Drum Kit includes: 10" Remo frame drum, 2 drumming CDs (2.5 hours), 78-page guidebook, 24 Rhythm cards.

Whether relaxing to the gentle lub-dub of a heartbeat, exploring sacred rhythms from around the globe, or simply drumming away stress, people of all ages will experience and enjoy the full spectrum of this ancient art, with The Healing Drum Kit.

The Healer Within
The presence of special breathing practices in ancient cultures has always been a mystery to people in the Western world. In "Breathing Practices" Roger Jahnke explains numerous beneficial physiological mechanisms that are triggered when we turn our attention to the breath and then increase it's volume. The act of relaxed, full breathing moves the function of the autonomic nervous system towards balance or homeostasis.

Wholistic Spiritual Healing
How does the body take on the mind's problems? In "The Body (Part 3)" Daniel J. Benor, M.D. offers answers, focusing on psychological and bioenergetic connections with the body. If you repeat a word or phrase to yourself, or if it is said to you by an authority figure, it may become imprinted in your unconscious mind.

DRINK, SHOWER, BATHE - LIVE IN PURE, HEALTHY WATER!

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GLOBAL HEALTH CALENDAR

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AOMAlliance 13th Annual Conference and Expo
Keystone, CO USA
May 3-10, 2006
Contact: Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Alliance - 253-851-6896

Eliminating Interference Patterns of DNA - with Margaret Ruby
Los Angeles, CA USA
May 6-7, 2006
Contact: Possibilitiies DNA -888-711-9962

2006 NHWPC - National Health Wellness and Prevention Congress
San Francisco, CA USA
May 8-10, 2006
Contact: Transmarx, LLC - 804-266-8122

2006 CDHCC - Consumer Directed Health Care Conference
San Francisco, CA USA
May 8-10, 2006 
Contact: Transmarx, LLC - 804-266-7422

Holism in Action: Building Integrated Health Care
2006 AHMA AHNA Annual Conference
St. Paul, MN USA
June 7-10, 2006
Contact: American Holistic Medical Association & American Holistic Nurses Association - 505-292-7788

Food as Medicine
Baltimore, MD USA
June 10-16, 2006
Contact: Center for Mind-Body Medicine - 202-966-7338

The Cutting Edge of Subtle Energies & Energy Medicine
ISSSEEM 16th Annual International Conference
Boulder, CO USA
June 22-28, 2006
Contact: International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies & Energy Medicine - 303-425-4625

NNFA 2006
Las Vegas, NV USA
July 14-16, 2006
Contact: National Nutritional Foods Association - 714-460-7732

31st Annual National Wellness Conference
The Power of Supportive Relationships
Stevens Point, WI USA
July 15, 20, 2006
Contact: National Wellness Institute, Inc. - 800-243-8694

For more leading health events visit www.healthcalendar.com

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