Methods We analyzed characteristics of and factors associated to t’ai chi practice among middle age and elder Chinese in Shanghai China utilizing baseline data from the Shanghai Women’s Health Study (n=74941, aged between 40-70 years) and Shanghai Men’s Health Study (n=...

Methods One hundred forty-nine adults ≥ 50 years were recruited from community and randomized into one of three groups: 1) wait-list observation (control), 2) meditation and 3) moderate intensity exercise. Cost associated with ARI incidence and severity was assessed by ...

Background: Gestures play an important role in medical communication. Methods: 94 homeopaths (Mean age 49.6 years, 20% male) completed a 20-item questionnaire on utilization and relevance of gestures in patients’ symptom description. Results: After excluding nine items ...

Methods This is an observational, before-after, 16-week study in which a convenience sample of 41 independent adults were recruited from a continuing care community retirement center “Regents Point”, located in Irvine, California. Subjects were competent adult volunteer...

Methods Single arm study performed between 10/15/2010 and 12/ 24/2010 at an academic medical center. A mass e-mail was sent to all nurses working in an inpatient psychiatric and an outpatient pain rehabilitation unit. The first 40 respondents were enrolled; two were exc...

Methods Confluent NCI-H292 cells were pretreated for 30 min in the presence of MMT and treated with ATP (200μM) or PMA (10ng/ml) or EGF (25ng/ml) or TNF-alpha (0.2nM) for 24 hours, to assess the effect of MMT both on ATPor PMAor EGFor TNF-alpha-induced MUC5AC mucin prod...

Purpose Elderly residents in long term care (LTC) settings experience a myriad of health complaints that may be amenable to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies. However, specialized training addressing the unique features of geriatric health care, par...

Results CHM, acupuncture+CHM and hormone therapy significantly decreased Kupperman score (p 0.05). The mean difference in the level of FSH between baseline and 2 months among the 3 groups was significantly different (p=0.02) with significantly better results for HT comp...

Methods This is a secondary database analysis of the Project RED dataset (N=623) identifying the sociodemographic characteristics as well as underserved patient factors associated with CAM use. We used descriptive statistics, bivariate, and multivariate logistic regress...