With thanks to The Huffington Post and the article by John Weeks Publisher and Editor, ‘Integrator Blog News & Reports’ 09/27/2012 1:22 pm:

 From http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-weeks/complementary-integrative-medicine_b_1916514.html Even when research finds that complementary and integrative medicine (CIM) or approaches are effective, these still may be shunned by health care’s major stakeholders. Employers, private insurers and government agencies like Medicare that pay for services often block inclusion due to concerns about costs. 

The findings of an exhaustive, systematic review of cost studies on complementary and integrative medicine from 2001-2010, published in the British Medical Journal Open, begins to provide definitive guidance. The report, led by Patricia Herman, M.S., N.D., Ph.D., will not immediately please every integrative health advocate. Nor will it serve as marching orders for every health care benefits decision maker. Read the rest of this entry »

With thanks to Cordis 7.6.12:

Researchers in Germany and Austria have successfully demonstrated how micro-infections promote social vaccination in ant societies. Presented in the journal PLoS Biology, the study was supported in part by two EU-funded projects: SOCIALVACCINES and LATENTCAUSES.

Both SOCIALVACCINES (‘Social vaccination in ant colonies: from individual mechanisms to society effects’) and LATENTCAUSES (‘Modelling latent causes in molecular networks’) were funded under the European Research Council (ERC) of the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) to the tune of EUR 1.3 million and EUR 1.24 million, respectively. Read the rest of this entry »

Mercurius solubilis: actions on macrophages. de Oliveira SM, de Oliveira CC, Abud AP, Guimarães Fde S, Di Bernardi RP, Coletto EL, Buchi Dde F. Laboratório de Estudos de Células Inflamatórias e Neoplásicas, Departamento de Biologia Celular, SCB, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil. Homeopathy. 2011 Oct;100(4):228-36.

Abstract: BACKGROUND: Macrophages play central roles in homeostasis as well as host defence in innate and acquired immunity, auto-immunity and immunopathology. Our research group has demonstrated the effects of highly diluted toxic substances in macrophages.

AIM: To investigate if highly diluted Mercurius solubilis (Merc sol), can activate or modulate macrophage functions.

METHODS: We evaluated the effects of Merc sol in the 6, 12, 30 and 200centesimal high dilutions (CH) potencies on mice peritoneal macrophages (in vitro and in vivo). Merc sol was added to mice’s drinking water for 7days (in vivo treatment) and animals were euthanised and cells were collected. In vitro treatment was performed on macrophages and bone-marrow cell cultures.

RESULTS: Macrophages showed activated morphology, both when Merc sol was added directly to the cell culture and to drinking water. The in vitro experiments showed enhanced morphological activation, increased interferon (IFN)γ release in the supernatant at lower dilutions and interleukin (IL)-4 production at higher dilutions. Increase in nitric oxide and decrease in superoxide (O(2)(-)) and hydrogen peroxide (H(2)O(2)) were also observed. In vivo treatment caused a decrease in O(2)(-) and increase in H(2)O(2) production by macrophages.

DISCUSSION: Taken together, the results allow us to conclude that highly diluted Merc sol modulates reactive oxygen species (ROS), reactive nitrogen species (RNS) and cytokine secretion, which are central mediators of the immune system, wound healing and body homeostasis.

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With thanks to the Irish homeopaths:

Cuban medical researchers have successfully prevented the annual outbreak of Leptospirosis in Cuba among a population of 5 million people across two regions using homeopathy in both 2007 and 2008, a homeopathy conference in Havana Cuba heard recently.

Read the full report here.

See also http://avilian.co.uk/2012/11/good-medicine-homeopathy/

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The Age of Carnage

Well, the World is simply boiling by 1000 BCE.

If the last two millennia were the Age of Terror, then this millennia must be the Age of Carnage. The Age of Madness is yet to come! Read the rest of this entry »