Health News Round up

Why Leading Cancer Hospitals Are Turning to Acupuncture
"MD Anderson is one of the top ranking oncology centers in the United States.  Excelling in cutting edge scientific research to find cures and answers for a wide range of cancers. Yet, MD Anderson's Integrative Medicine Center looks at a treatment method 3,000 years in the making... ACUPUNCTURE" Click here to listen to the podcast

Cleveland Clinic’s New Medicine: At one Ohio hospital, patients get herbs as well as drugs
"Though herbal therapy has been practiced in China for centuries, it is still an afterthought in the U.S., in part because pharmaceutical remedies are usually easier to obtain. Now that’s beginning to change: in January, the Cleveland Clinic opened a Chinese herbal-therapy ward." Click here to read more

The Most Powerful Food Combinations
"Who came up with the idea that we are supposed to drink orange juice at breakfast? And why, if oatmeal is so good for us, do we eat that only in the morning as well? Apologies to the Palinites, but nutritionists are starting to realize that you and I like our oatmeal and OJ before we start the day because we evolved to like it that way—because enjoying the two together is healthier than eating each of them alone." Click here to read more

Anglo-Saxon remedy kills hospital superbug MRSA
"The medieval medics might have been on to something. A modern-day recreation of this remedy seems to alleviate infections caused by the bacteria that are usually responsible for styes. The work might ultimately help create drugs for hard-to-treat skin infections." Click here to read more