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The Intriguing Health Benefits of Qigong

The Intriguing Health Benefits of Qigong
The Claim: Qigong, a Chinese health practice based on gentle movements, meditation and breathing, has wide-ranging benefits, including improving balance, lowering blood pressure and even easing depression. The Verdict: … Natural Standard Research …… Continue reading

Daily Planner: September 3

Daily Planner: September 3
Anorexia Nervosa, Associated Eating Disorders: 7-8:30 p.m. Information, support, sharing. Woodoak Condominiums Complex recreation room, 555 Vallombrosa. 343-4891. Weekly. Narcotics Anonymous: 7 p.m., 1341 W. Fourth St.. Life on Life's Terms of NA. Read more on… Continue reading

Rehab Centers Struggle to Keep Drugs Out

Rehab centers struggle to keep drugs out
Drug rehabs can take concrete steps to keep drugs out and must anticipate the risks addicts will take to feed their addictions, said Ben Levenson, CEO of Origins Recovery Centers, which has two… Continue reading

Medbox Focuses on Newly Emerging Medical and Recreational Marijuana States

Medbox Focuses on Newly Emerging Medical and Recreational Marijuana States
Medbox has offices throughout the world, including New York, Arizona, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Florida, Tokyo, London and Toronto, and has their corporate headquarters in Los Angeles. Medbox provides their patented systems,… Continue reading

Dual Life Kept Navy Yard Suspect Below Radar

Dual Life Kept Navy Yard Suspect Below Radar
The Aaron Alexis known to friends and neighbors was by many accounts a personable guy, occasionally intense, but rarely angry. The Aaron Alexis as viewed through an official paper trail that followed… Continue reading

Plan to Expand Mental Health Courts Clears State House Committee

Plan to expand mental health courts clears state House committee
A state House panel unanimously approved the bill Thursday. People diagnosed with conditions like severe depression and schizophrenia can avoid jail time and have certain charges erased from public records… Continue reading

Touchscreen Toddlers and Instagram Teens

Touchscreen Toddlers and Instagram Teens
Ms. Steiner-Adair says that "recent reports on emerging patterns of depression and loneliness among heavy tech users suggest some teens spend upward of half the day—eleven hours—tending their Facebook profiles." Families, too, suffer from "relational …… Continue reading

Enterotoxigenic Escherichia Coli (ETEC) Cause of Travellers' Diarrhoea

Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) cause of travellers' diarrhoea
Your doctor may prescribe you with: painkillers or non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) to help with the pain, a steroid injection into a joint to reduce pain, antidepressants to help with the pain,… Continue reading

WCUI Subsidiary CNS-Wellness Enters Into a Partnership With Nationally

WCUI Subsidiary CNS-Wellness Enters Into a Partnership With Nationally
Caron Treatment Centers is a nationally recognized non-profit provider of alcohol and drug addiction treatment. With more than 50 years in the field, Caron Renaissance (Caron) is one of the… Continue reading

Crisis Centers Turn to Texting to Help Teens

Crisis Centers Turn to Texting to Help Teens
A few national help lines are training staff and volunteers in the art of counseling via text message or online chat. The added anonymity of digital communication means people seeking help talk… Continue reading