HealthWorld Announces E-Commerce Partnership With AllHerb.Com
HealthWorld Online has created a strategic e-commerce partnership with pioneer e-retailer AllHerb.com that will bring an enhanced shopping experience to our users. AllHerb.com has been a pioneer in bringing quality to the online shopping experience via superior, committed customer service, quality products, expert content, generous discounts and free shipping. AllHerb.com founder and CEO Ken Hakuta has taken a very creative and innovative approach to creating an e-commerce experience that resulted in high customer satisfaction and retention, says HealthWorld President and co-founder Jim Strohecker. We look forward to offering AllHerb.com's excellent service to our users.

Pilates Method For Those Looking For Controlled Form Of Exercise
Dancers do it. But they're not the only ones - not anymore. The Pilates Method comprises low-impact, controlled movements that engage body and mind in creating more flexibility, better balance and greater strength. Pilates'(pronounced puh-LAH-teez) movements stretch and strengthen muscles to promote complete body conditioning and balance. Emphasis is on concentration; smooth, controlled movements; correct body alignment; and proper breathing.

Alternative Health Care Freedom Of Access Coming To Minnesota
Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura has just signed the Complementary and Alternative Health Care Bill HF-3839 into law effective July 1, 2001. The bill offers freedom to practice for a wide range of unlicensed alternative health practitioners who are willing to follow the rules and guidelines set forth in the new law. This bill is seen as an important breakthrough in the struggle for health freedom.

Scientist Says Your Chi Is Key To Optimum Health
The work of Russian physicist Yury Kronn is the link that binds science with the mysticism of the energy force the Chinese call chi. He is combining this philosophy of chi with quantum physics principles and translating these laws into the language of modern science.

Vitamin Deficiency May Cause Depression
Just in case you weren't convinced, doctors now have new evidence that vitamins are good preventative medicine. A recent study of women aged 65 years and older showed a correlation between low vitamin B12 levels and depression.

AMA Seeks To Sway Seven GOP Senators On Patients' Rights Bill
A House-Senate conference committee is putting the final touches on legislation that protects the medical rights of patients in disagreements with their health plans. The American Medical Association has launched an advertising campaign in major newspapers to urge legislative support of this bill.

Dr. Galland's Integrated Medicine
Dr. Leo Galland, author of "Power Healing," combines his personal research and an analysis of recent developments in medical research to enable you to learn how to heal yourself, and preventing or reversing chronic illness with the techniques of Integrated Medicine. In the column "What is Integrated Medicine?" Dr. Galland addresses conventional western medicine, alternative medical systems, and the importance of including dietary, environmental or social conditions.

The Healer Within
The traditional systems of medicine from the Asian cultures have always had some type of massage stimulation to the ears. When you work on your ears you will notice that within 4-5 minutes of vigorous massage your ears get hot - caused by the increase of blood flow to that area. The Chinese say, "When the blood is increased to an area the Energy (Qi) is increased to that area as well." Because the ears are heavily enervated, the combination of the presence of the nerves, the effect of the pressure and the heightened circulation causes stimulation to the reflexes of the Microsystems of the ear, notes Dr. Roger Jahnke in the column, "Self-Applied Massage of the Ears." Through this reflex Microsystems all parts of the body can be influenced through pressure massage to the ear.

Mind Over Matter
While some people tend to live in the past, others seem to consume every waking moment worrying about the future. Rarely do we live fully in the present. In the column "The Carpenter's Lesson: building your future with pride" Barry Bittman, M.D. shares a story that offers a simple yet important inspirational perspective for rethinking our lives.

Natural Medicine Research
Does exercise have a deleterious effect on joint cartilage or spinal disks? Several epidemiological studies have shown that certain athletic activities such as gymnastics, weightlifting, and soccer may lead to acceleration of spine degeneration. In this column, "Exercise and Disk Degeneration," Dr. Ray Sahelian questions whether non-athletes who exercise recreationally also risk cartilage or disk degeneration. Researchers from Finland investigated the effects of endurance exercise and power sports on disk degeneration in monozygotic male twins with contrasting lifetime exercise histories found that recreational exercise does not seem to pose any problems in relation to disk degeneration.

Understanding Homeopathy
It is sometimes difficult, literally and figuratively, to stomach gas, heartburn, and indigestion pains. Although we may want to curse at our digestive tract, the fact of the matter is that our digestive symptoms are actually defenses of the body in its best efforts to defend and heal ourselves. In the column "Homeopathic Medicines For Indigestion, Gas, And Heartburn: Natural Remedies You Can Stomach" Dana Ullman, M.P.H. outlines common symptoms, what they indicate, and which specific homeopathic remedies are appropriate to consider.

"Intuitively Perceiving The Human Energy Field&Quot; With Dr. Carolyn Myss, Ph.D.
Carolyn Myss is a recognized pioneer in the field of energy medicine and documnted medical intuitive. As Russell DiCarlo interviews Dr. Myss, she shares her view of the human energy field as an information center and broadens our understanding of its relationship to intuition.

Healthy Recipes
Sometimes, it's the simplest things in life that bring the most pleasure. Danish chef Oscar Umahro Cadogan brings us one of them. "Super Oatmeal" takes very little time to make and nourishes body, soul, and the tastebuds. The sesame and flax seed bring extra richness to the oatmeal and provide essential fatty acids with an almost 1 to 1 ratio of omega-3's and omega-6's.

Healthy Travel
As the planet's tropical forests are degraded or chopped into fragments at an increasing rate, one of the greatest challenges facing reserve managers is calculating whether a given fragment is viable. You can be part of a scientific research expedition counting the numbers and species of a group of organisms to indicate the viability of a given forest fragment in Brazil's Atlantic forest. July 2-11 join "Bees And Orchids Of Brazil" with entomologists Drs. Athayde Tonhasca and Gilberto Albuquerque in Brazil as they test whether the stingless male euglossine bees that pollinate the roughly 650 orchid species and other plants that live here provide a reliable measure of forest fragment health.

Healthy Child Update
A fever can be caused by a wide variety of things, including dehydration, overexertion, mosquito bites, bee stings, an allergic or toxic reaction, or a viral or bacterial infection. In the column "Fever" Janet Zand, L.Ac., O.M.D. presents parents guidelines for assessing their child's condition, plus explanations of the treatment options offered by conventional and alternative medicine.

Healthy Woman Update
Women have special needs to love and be loved, to create, to express their feelings, and to express their being. In the column "Nutritional Program for Adult Women" Elson M. Haas, M.D. addresses women's unique nutritional needs related to the various stages of their life cycle and offers recommendations for appropriate diet choices.

Professional Referral Network
The Professional Referral Network contains searchable directories from 20 leading professional associations in complementary and integrative health care, with over 10,000 professionals. Looking for a healthcare professional offering acupuncture? The Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine section of this Referral Network includes the member databases for the Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Alliance (AOMA) and the American Association of Oriental Medicine (AAOM).

Medical Cybrarian Research Service
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The Cybrarian offers you personalized research service, searching the Internet, books, MEDLINE and other databases, to find EXACTLY the information you require. The Cybrarian can custom design research for individual patients or healthcare professionals, as well as healthcare industry business people, including information on diseases, treatments, products, market research or statistics for alternative, complementary and conventional medicine. For reasonable fees, the Cybrarian carefully gathers and selects the information or points you to useful web sites and other sources, with the speed and searching techniques acquired from many years of professional research.

Participate in our Online Community--Join our Discussion Forums
The "Mind-Body-Spirit Health" Forum is currently exploring distance healing. You can add your thoughts or check out what others have discovered. Join in the ongoing discussion in our "Health Freedom," "The Vaccination Question," "Genetically Modified Foods," "Issues in Integrated Health Care," "Mind-Body-Spirit Health," and "Qigong and Taiji" forums.

Association Network -- Hot Pick
The American Holistic Health Association (AHHA) is a national clearing house to connect you with resources you can use to improve your health and well-being. Wherever you are on the path of creating wellness, AHHA assists you to become informed about the many options available in the health care arena today.

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Global Health Calendar -- Hot Picks

American Holistic Medical Association 23rd Annual Conference
Integration and Holistic Medicine: Healthcare in the Third Millennium
Tucson, AZ USA
May 31-June 3, 2000
Contact: American Holistic Medical Association - 703-556-9245

Comprehensive Cancer Care
Integrating Complementary and Alternative Therapies
Arlington, VA USA
June 8-12, 2000
Contact: Center for Mind Body Medicine - 202-966-7338

Aromatherapy Tour and Retreat
Heartland of France - St. Remy, Avignon, Fontveille, Orange
Drome Valley, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur FRANCE
June 18-26, 2000
Contact: HealthyTravel.net - 888-888-0717

Journey to Machu Picchu, Apukuna, Andes & Amazon Incan Odyssey
Machu Picchu, Cusco PERU
July 12-26, 2000
Contact: HealthyTravel.net - 888-888-0717

25th Anniversary National Wellness Conference
Pathways To Wellness: Experience the Journey!
Stevens Point, WI USA
July 15-21, 2000
Contact: National Wellness institute, Inc. - 715-342-2969

Nutracon 2000
The Event for Nuraceuticals
Las Vegas, NV USA
July 17-19, 2000
Nutracon - 800-868-7188

Healing Waters Conference and Exhibition
Spa and Health Tourism in the New Millennium
Rotorua, Waikato NEW ZEALAND
July 18-21, 2000
Contact: Waiariki Institute of Technology - 647-346-8656

Marketplace 2000
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Las Vegas, NV USA
July 26-29, 2000
Contact: National Nutritional Foods Association - 949-622-6272

Treating Depression with Interactive Guided Imagery
Bellevue, WA USA
July 30, 2000
Contact: Academy for Guided Imagery - 415-389-9325