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Societal attitudes toward homosexuality – Anti-homosexual attitudes

Conservatism Conservatism is a term broadly used for people who are inclined to traditional values and (typically) strong religious beliefs. Whilst conservatism includes people of many views, it has a significant proportion of adherents who consider homosexuals, and especially the efforts of homosexuals to achieve equal rights and recognition, to be a threat to valued [...]

Alexander technique – The technique

Basic premises The National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) defines the Alexander technique as an education/guidance practice to “improve posture and movement, and to use muscles efficiently.” The Alexander Technique is considered to be primarily an educational process to be practiced by the student, rather than a curative [...]

Bodymind – Interrelated concepts

The present day understanding of bodymind both in a psychological, therapeutic as well as in a medical sense is that: *The body, mind, emotions and spirit are dynamically interrelated. *Each time a change is introduced at one level, it has a ripple effect throughout the entire system. Bodymind therapy combines the strengths of “talk” therapy [...]

Issels treatment – Introduction

The Issels Treatment, or Issels Combination Therapy, refers to an alternative treatment for cancer based on the ideas of Josef Issels. The Issels Treatment is considered ineffective against cancer by the American Cancer Society, and is listed as a “Dubious Treatment” by the alternative medicine watchdog website, Quackwatch. Adapted from the Wikipedia article Issels treatment, [...]

Max Gerson – Introduction

Max Gerson (18 October 1881–8 March 1959) was a German physician who developed the Gerson Therapy, an alternative dietary therapy which he claimed could cure cancer and most chronic, degenerative diseases. Gerson described his approach in the book ”A Cancer Therapy: Results of 50 Cases”. However, when Gerson’s claims were independently evaluated by the National [...]

Coretta Scott King – Final days

Adapted from the Wikipedia article Coretta Scott King, under the G. N. U. Free Documentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

Magnet therapy – Introduction

Magnet therapy, magnetic therapy, or magnotherapy is an alternative medicine practice involving the use of static magnetic fields. Practitioners claim that subjecting certain parts of the body to magnetostatic fields produced by permanent magnets has beneficial health effects. Magnet therapy is considered pseudoscientific due to both physical and biological implausibility, as well as a lack [...]

Index of genetics articles – A

* Acentric chromosome * Achondroplasia * Active site * ”Adam’s Curse” * Adaptation * Adenine * Adenosine * Adenovirus * Adenosine diphosphate (ADP) * Ala * Alagille syndrome * Albino * Alcoholism * Alkylating agent * Allele * Allele frequency * Alleles * Allopolyploid * Allosteric protein * Allozyme * Alternative splicing * Altruism * [...]

ACE Centre – The ACE Centres’ brief

The ACE Centres provide a child centered, multidisciplinary, independent assessment, advice and training service to the parents and carers of children with complex disabilities who require assisted/augmented communication aids in order to communicate and to learn. To this end they influence the development of new products which meet the needs of children and young people [...]

Tocopherol – Other uses

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of visual impairment and blindness in the United States and the developed world among people 65 years and older. It has been shown that vitamin E alone does not attenuate the development or progression of AMD. However, studies focusing on efficacy of Vitamin [...]

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