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Bush Will Keep Clinton Rules on Medical Privacy
The Bush administration decided to retain far-reaching medical privacy rules drafted by President Clinton, a decision that won praise from privacy advocates but stunned and dismayed officials of hospitals and health insurance plans. The rules are aimed at making sure doctors and hospital staffers do not pass individual medical records to third parties, such as insurers or health product marketers, without a patient's consent.

Getting Children Outside More Is Important
Children simply don't experience enough sunlight, fresh air and activities that increase their heart rates. We used to compensate with vitamin D milk, but kids drink soda. Children spend too many hours indoors. It's ruining their health. Virtual activities are a main reason for obesity in children, a new increase of Type 2 diabetes and a resurgence of rickets, a softening of the bones as a result of a lack of vitamin D.

Alternative Medicine - Relaxing Improves the Health
Correct breathing serves to release hormones and minerals that benefit cardiovascular ability, equilibrium of muscular tone, loss of excess weight and a calm mind. Yoga is a discipline that focuses on breathing and a path towards physical, mental, and spiritual growth. It doesn’t calm any pain, but it looks for the elimination of its cause and action toward healing.

Dr. Galland's Integrated Medicine
Asthma, allergic rhinitis, chronic otitis media and sinusitis are increasing at frightening rates among children in the United States. There are several measures that parents can take to effectively reverse this trend, according to Leo Galland, M.D. in "Immune Power for Kids." These measures are supported by scientific research and have been very effective in his own clinical practice, including a nutritious diet, provision of a hygienic home environment, and regularity of rest and exercise.

Mind Body Health Newsletter
In spite of a growing body of research over the last decade documenting the economic burden of depression on individuals and on society, efforts to curb skyrocketing medical costs usually start with cuts in mental health services and benefits. Insurance coverage of mental health treatment in recent years has become more and more restrictive. Most health care reform proposals impose stricter limits on mental health care than on general medical services. One recent study - the first to look beyond the direct cost of treating depression to the use of medical services in general - suggests that in the long run these cuts may be costing the health-care system far more than they save, reports Dr. David Sobel in "Depression and Health Care: The High Cost of Saving."

Keeping Fit
Lifting weights is no longer limited to young athletes who want greater performance power. Strength training is for every person who needs more muscle and functional ability, and no one fits that description better than our senior population. In "Fitness Focus On Frail Elderly" Wayne Westcott outlines the fast emerging field of fitness for frail elderly and senior living center residents.

Echoes of Silence
Many business leaders are becoming concerned with establishing a new order of peace and harmony within their spheres of activity. As they seek a new vision, we seek a new order within themselves as the foundation for a new order of values, ethics, and purpose in their business lives. In "Leading From Within" Robert Rabbin points out that the basis for this transformation is an emerging spiritual awareness - a direct experience of our unity with all life.

"A Field Guide to Stress " With Kenneth R. Pelletier Ph.D.
Long term stress is what causes us difficulties; from family stress; emotional conflicts; money difficulties. In the interview "A Field Guide to Stress" with Tom Ferguson, M.D., Kenneth R. Pelletier Ph.D. explains how a prolonged biological stress pattern leads to disease. He details how to break this pattern with various stress management options, rather than illness.

Healthy Bookstore
In "The Circle of Healing: Deepening Our Connections with Self, Others and Nature" by Cathy Holt mind-body awareness practices, insightful personal stories of healing, learnings from nature and indigenous wisdom traditions create an engaging guide to a more fulfilling life. Learn to use imagination and breath to promote healing; access the deep wisdom of the inner self; communicate more kindly and skillfully with self and others; prepare for surgery; shift perceptions and judgments; let nature teach and heal;and create personal healing rituals.

Featured Center
HealthWorld Online's Health Conditions Center is the authoritative resource for information on alternative and conventional approaches to over 300 health conditions. Nationally known experts in a wide range of alternative health systems provide thousands of authoritative articles, columns and interviews, as well as Real-time audio messages on specific health conditions from nutritional, naturopathic and homeopathic perspectives.

Healthy Woman Update
Bladder infections are no fun, as any of you who have suffered from the burning pain and nonstop trips to the bathroom will agree. For those of you who have had more severe symptoms, such as incapacitating bladder and kidney pain or blood in your urine, it may have been a frightening experience. In "Bladder Infections: Rapid Relief" Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman N.D., M.S.W., DHANP covers how to know if you have a bladder infection, what causes them, and numerous natural approaches for treatment.

Find a Professional
The Professional Referral Network contains searchable directories for 20 leading professional associations in complementary and integrative health care, with over 16,000 professionals. Looking for a healthcare professional specializing in herbal medicine? The Herbalism section includes the American Herbalists Guild member database.

Healthy Recipes
Beets can really shine at the dinner table. They just need a bit of help. Our Fabulous Functional Foods Chef Oscar Umahro Cadogan of Denmark brings us the recipe "Beet and Nori Soup with a Touch of Licorice" where the heat of an oven helps mellow the taste of the beets, bringing out their natural sweetness and helps make them soft. A blender and some olive oil and the spices do the rest, letting the beets shine at the dinner table and providing your palate with a silky smooth sensation upon ingestion.

Association Network -- Hot Pick
The Holistic Dental Association (HDA) members are dentists committed to considering the ramifications of dental care on the entire person; dentists who will choose dental materials that are biocompatible to the patient's physiology, and who do not perform any service without the person's informed consent to that service.

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Global Health Calendar -- Hot Picks

Practical Introduction to Anthroposophical Medicine
For physicians and medical students
Spring Valley, NY USA
April 19-22, 2001
Contact: Physicians' Association for Anthroposophical
Medicine - 413-584-9990

Ottawa Health Show
Ottawa, Ontario CANADA
April 27-28, 2001
Contact: Canadian National Health Shows - 604-885-0960

Cancer As a Turning Point, From Surviving to Thriving
Free conference for anyone touched by cancer
Medford, OR USA
April 27-28, 2001
Contact: Healing Journeys - 800-423-9882

AHMA Annual Conference
The Marriage of Art and Science in Holistic Medicine
Miami, FL USA
May 2-5, 2001
Contact: American Holistic Medical Association - 703-556-9245

Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Alliance Conference
Safety Harbor, FL USA
May 4-7, 2001
Contact: Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Alliance - 800-345-1010

Fourth World Congress on Qigong
The Fourth American Qigong Association Conference
San Francisco, CA USA
May 4-7, 2001
Contact: East West Academy of Healing Arts - 415-788-2227

Healing Into Wholeness with Jacquelyn Small
Ten-Day Psycho-Spiritual Wellness Program
Jacksonville, FL USA
May 7-10, 2001
Contact: Eupsychia Institute - 800-546-2795

SupplySide East
International Trade Show and Conference
Secaucus, NJ USA
May 7-9, 2001
Contact: Virgo Publishing, Inc. - 480-990-1101

Yoga at the Leading Edge
Celebrate the grace of movement and all that is yoga today
Lenox, MA USA
May 17-20, 2001
Contact: Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health - 800-741-7353

Botanical Medicine in Modern Clinical Practice
New York, NY USA
May 21-25, 2001
Contact: Columbia University/Rosenthal Center for
Complementary & Alternative Medicine - 212-543-9542

2001 World Congress on Complementary Therapies in Medicine
Washington, DC USA
May 25-27, 21001
Contact: Mosby/Continuing Education & Training
- 800-826-1877