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Crunch, crunch, pow!

Cancer cells resistant to chemotherapy have met their match in broccoli and brussels sprouts.

Winter eczema

Q: I am dreading winter. My son suffers from eczema and he scratches until his skin bleeds. Is there anything to stop the cycle?

Fighting in your sleep

I'll admit it: I always thought that telling someone who's under the weather to "get some rest" was just a polite way to end the conversation.

Good intentions, bad results

Sulfur of any sort is metabolized in the body into a harmless compound called sulfate by the enzyme sulfite oxidase.

All Juiced Up

Cranberry juice is the go-to juice for most bacterial urinary tract infections, but it won’t be of much help in stopping kidney stones.

Start your engines

Q: After suffering for months with exhaustion, my sister-in-law was diagnosed with hypo-adrenalism. What can help her?

I'll have the chicken, please

Two separate studies focusing on pancreatic cancer prevention have uncovered simple dietary modifications that can make a big difference in determining who is more likely to acquire the disease.

Prevention is key

Q: I heard over-the-counter pain relievers can be harmful. What natural remedies are there for migraines?

Outer space and inner bone

It never ceases to amaze me how the best treatments we’ve come up with over the years for cancer are, in many cases, worse than the disease itself.

Getting the O.K.

Q: I’d like to start taking vitamin K, but I don’t have a natural food store close by and none of the pharmacies near me carry it. Can I get it from food sources instead?

Drink up

Diabetics who shy away from pomegranate juice because of the drink’s high sugar content may be doing themselves a disservice.

What is…bipolar disorder?

Bipolar disorder (also known as manic depression) is a mental illness characterized by extreme mood swings.

Warts n' all

There are several alternative treatments to battle herpes. Diet plays an important role in outbreaks, so start by eliminating junk foods, refined sugar, and white flour

Pass the cranberries

If you want the greatest health benefit from your cranberries this Thanksgiving, choose either whole cranberry products or juice that has not been highly diluted, a recent study suggests.

Everything old is new again

University of Edinburgh researchers have taken the healing properties of mint oil and created a cooling compound for chronic pain sufferers.

Flu Shortage Scare

Remember the flu vaccine shortage that happened a couple of years ago, and what a big fuss government health officials and the media made over it?

Magnetic Therapy

Q: I’ve read a couple of your articles on MME therapy and I would be interested in trying it for my neuropathy. But I’m on a fixed income and am not sure I can afford it.

It's tea time

Is drinking tea really better for you than drinking water? After studying the positive effects of tea, one British researcher thinks so.

A burning desire for help

Q: I have been having pain in my throat for three months. I was just diagnosed with GERD, but I don't want to take any drugs for it. Any suggestions?

Mandarin oranges may prevent liver cancer

Good things do come in small packages. Recent studies have found that eating mandarin oranges offers protection against certain diseases, including liver cancer.

Ringing in Ears

Q: Do you have any advice on how to eliminate constant ringing in my ears?

WAR on holistic medicine – Public protector or public enemy? It’s so hard to tell these days…

For six months, I’ve been sounding the alarm on the Washington State Department of Health’s persecution of holistic practitioners. You’ve read multiple examples of their twisting and bending the law to suit their own purposes, and of how trustworthy and legitimate doctors have been penalized because the Washington State Department of Health doesn’t agree with their “brand” of medicine.

Clinical Tip 138: How a yellow IV could shorten your hospital stay

If there’s ever a time your body and mind are under stress, it’s when you’re lying in a hospital bed, chained to an IV. But if that IV needle that’s sending a solution directly into your veins is clear or colorless, it isn’t doing as much as it could to help you fight the stress that could prolong your recovery-and your hospital stay. I know it may sound strange, but the color of your IV should probably be yellow.

Herbal secrets for quieting a colicky baby

It’s enough to make any mother want to hold up the white flag when her newborn baby just won’t stop crying. And it’s not the “I’m hungry” or “My diaper is wet” cry. There’s no apparent reason for it, and it lasts for hours and hours day after day.

Politics and prostate cancer: Is bureaucratic red tape limiting your treatment options?

High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is a “new” and highly promising non-invasive prostate cancer treatment that presents a safer, more effective option to the standard treatments, chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Chemotherapy is known to have severe adverse side effects-not the least of which includes suppressing your immune system. And radiation therapy is known to damage the tissues surrounding the prostate.