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HealthWorld Online Joins CyberCash Digital Newstand
HealthWorld Online is now the health provider for "Digital Newstand" a new service developed by pioneering cyber-transaction company, CyberCash. HealthWorld Online now offers selected premium services including Herbal and Nutritional Research Reviews as well as Real Audio files from our Natural Medicine Audio Clinic in the Digital Newstand. Using CyberCoin™ individuals can purchase a day pass or single issues for a variety of premium news and information services in the Digital Newstand without buying a subscription. HealthWorld Online also utilizes CyberCash's CyberCoin system for premium content in the Library of Health and Medicine.

Newsbreaks

Pesticides on Produce Leave Residue of Worry
Scientists increasingly suspect unknown environmental causes may explain the rise in certain types of cancer, and a 1993 report by the Environmental Working Group concluded that the average American child, by age 5, has accumulated 35 percent of the federally permitted lifetime exposure to captan and similar percentages of the allowed 70-year exposures to other carcinogenic pesticides. Federal regulators concede that current standards for amounts of pesticides on produce are out of date, and they are now working to revise them. Consumers, fearful of all the unknowns about pesticides, are driving a healthy $3.5 billion organic food industry.

News from the Village

Children's Health Update
Janet Zand, OMD, LAc provides an indepth exploration of both the conventional and alternative approaches to childhood allergies in Allergies excerpted from her critically acclaimed book, Smart Medicine for a Healthier Child. Dr. Zand covers dietary guidelines, nutritional supplements, herbs, homeopathic remedies, and acupressure for allergies as well as prevention, general guidelines and emergency treatment.

Women's Health Update
Stress is a significant component of many recurrent and chronic women's health problems, including fibroids and endometriosis. In her article Stress Reduction for Relief of Fibroids & Endometriosis, Susan Lark, MD explains how in women with fibroids and endometriosis, stress may negatively affect hormonal balance and lead to growth in the size of fibroid tumors. Dr. Lark offers a program of stress reducing techniques for women suffering from these conditions.

Men's Health Update
Dana Ullman, MPH, internationally recognized expert in homeopathy discusses the homeopathic approach to common men's health problems including sexually transmitted diseases, impotence, urethritis and bladder infections, prostate problems, and testicular problems in his article Men's Health Problems.

Nutrition Update: Interview with Nutritional Experts
Professor Eric Block, Ph.D. discusses research into the health benefits of garlic in this interview with Dr. Richard A. Passwater: The Chemistry of Garlic Health Benefits.

Tips from Our Cybrarian
Trying to separate the wheat from the chaff? In this month's Cybrarian Tips, learn the whys and whatnots of search engines. What are they? How do they affect what you find on the WEB? Micaela Sullivan-Fowler, HealthWorld Onlines's Cybrarian, helps you begin the journey toward the attainment of knowledge (not just information), with this first of a multi-part series on how to find what you really want on the Internet. Visit the Cybrarian Service.

Health Professional's Center
Dr. Melvyn Werbach’s Nutritional Influences on Illness now online!
The Online Edition of Nutritional Influences on Illness, the ultimate resource for nutritional research, is now available as a premium service in our Library of Health & Medicine. The online edition consists of over 3,000 pages of nutritional research drawn from leading medical journals. The bound edition of Nutritional Influences of Illness with which many are familiar has been greatly edited so as to contain only the highlights of the database now offered for the first time in its complete form. The chapters on individual diseases are accessible for a fee, payable in CyberCash.

University News
New Online Course in Our University! Expand Your Creativity Through Self-Mastery -- The Meta-Wellness Online Home Study Program, a complete program to enhance your well-being on all levels, is now available in HealthWorld. The Course was created by Dr. Theresa Dale, President of The Wellness Center for Research and Education, Inc., Malibu, CA.

Self-Care Central Update
Tom Ferguson, M.D., pioneer of medical self-care in the United States, author of Health Online, and coordinator of Self-Care Central, discusses how the new information technologies will help us reconnect self-care & self-help with professional medical care, in his article Online Health: Bringing the Patient into the Medical Information Loop .

New Releases in our Bookstore
For years, women thought they had only two choices for menopause: avoid taking synthetic hormones altogether and suffer the occasionally debilitating effects of menopause, ranging from bone loss to sleeplessness, or accept a prescription for Premarin and Provera and with it an increased risk of some cancers. But, as the groundbreaking new book, Natural Woman, Natural Menopause proves, there is a better, safer, more effective way. Authors Marcus Laux, N.D., a leading expert on natural medicine, and Christine Conrad, a patient herself who experienced the unpleasant side effects of synthetic hormones, cut through the confusion and misinformation and show women that they can take natural, plant-derived hormones, which match their own hormones exactly, without any known side effects or cancer risks, and which are readible available by doctor’s prescription in a pill or cream form.

Association Network
The Price-Pottenger Nutritional Foundation teaches the public and health professionals ancestral dietary and ecological wisdom that can heal and prevent diseases and save lives where modern medicine fails. Contact PPNF for our free Educational/Resource Catalog with a wealth of reliable and timely information and for links to environmentally and nutritionally- oriented health care professionals. Visit Price Pottenger Nutrition Foundation.

Global Health Calendar -- Hot Pick
"Questing Spirit: Paths of Healing, Paths of Wholeness," July 10-13, 1997, Palm Springs, CA -- presented by The Institute of Noetic Sciences. Featured speakers include: Marianne Williamson, Rachel Naomi Remen, Kenneth Pelletier...and many others. Institute of Noetic Sciences - 800-259-5419

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