Contrary to what many of our mothers believed (and passed down to us), for most areas of the house, vacuuming and wiping down surfaces with warm soapy water is plenty.

Physicians at various MME centers have seen patients make complete recoveries from incapacitating seizures and crippling pain brought on by accidents.

According to a study published earlier this year in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, almost 50 percent of physicians surveyed admitted to prescribing placebos to their patients.

Hair mineral analysis tests check for between 30 and 50 minerals, and the total cost is almost always less than $75.

No sooner had Wyeth and the FDA launched their campaign to restrict our access to bio-identical hormones, a new study came out, once again extolling the supposed "virtues" of synthetic versions.

Head sweating is one of the symptoms of rickets, a severe vitamin D deficiency disease that usually occurs in childhood.

Apparently, a professor from UCLA has invented an all-natural lollipop than can fight cavities.

In addition to its numerous other benefits, fish oil can also help ease bipolar disorder.

A recent study measured astaxanthin's effects on fighting fat, not free radicals or vision loss.

My first suggestion to all osteoarthritis sufferers is to eliminate nightshade vegetables from the diet.

HIFU, high-intensity focused ultrasound, promises to treat prostate cancer while preserving the patients' sexual function and urinary continence.

Cod liver oil (or any other fish oil) is a very effective natural alternative to Coumadin. It works by making blood platelets so slippery that they can't stick together to form a clot.

The FDA continues to make life miserable for other manufacturers using stevia in their products.

While there's no surefire cure, lithium (in relatively high doses) can significantly reduce both the severity and frequency of cluster headaches.

Apparently, hiding inside olives may just be the key to preventing age-related macular degeneration.

The answer is often as simple as using retinoic acid, which can significantly decrease skin cancer recurrences or stop them altogether.

A recent study from Duke University Medical Center suggested coffee may be a major culprit behind elevated blood sugar levels, making diabetes much harder to control.

Over several generations, attention to health care politics has fallen by the wayside for many people.

Circadian rhythms are an intrinsic part of many body systems and processes — even ones that don't seem to have anything to do with sleep.

There is a good reason that so many physicians skilled and knowledgeable in nutritional and natural medicine won't process insurance claims: It's because the doctor doesn't want to risk going to jail.

To get a better sense of statins' effectiveness you have to look beyond the percentages the drug ads are always spouting out.

The first step for any woman battling fibrocystic breast disease is to eliminate any and all sources of caffeine from your diet.

MSRA is a type of staph infection that starts in the skin but can travel quickly throughout the body causing pneumonia or infections in the blood or bone.

The FDA has "approved" countless patent medications that have later turned out to be hazardous — even deadly — to the very people they were supposed to help.

Apparently mainstream medicine is starting to come around to the idea that the sun may not be such a deadly enemy after all.