Dan Nevins is a warrior on a mission to save others.
Eleven years ago, while serving in Iraq, an IED exploded under his Army vehicle. The blast destroyed both his legs. Nevins spent 18 months at Walter Reed Medical Center. With the help of the Wounded Warrior Project, he learned to climb mountains and play golf. […]
Lars Ole Bonde, PhD Aalborg University Music Therapy Expert talks about the history of Music Therapy; Music Therapy in Hospitals; the difference between Music Therapy and Music Medicine; and the relationship between Music Therapy, chronic Diseases, moments of hope and memory.
Music Therapy History
The history of music therapy begins at the dawn of civilization at […]
“Pain is our harm alarm and it does a really good job of getting our attention,” said Beth Darnall, a clinical associate professor at Stanford Health Care’s division of pain medicine. She says:
Virtual Reality is a psychological tool, like meditation, that can “calm the nervous system, and that dampens the pain processing.”
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Medical Students at the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine learn about the science and methodology behind the transcendental meditation (TM) technique in the first TM elective course offered at a major medical school in the United States. It is called “Physician Wellness through Transcendental Meditation”
Read Chicago Medicine January 2016 articles:Physician Heal Thyself: Strict School of Medicine Students Give New Meaning to the […]
New proposed strategy recently posted in the Hospitals and Health Networks (H&HN) as an article titled A Holistic Approach to Health Care Can Lower Costs and Improve Quality, authored by Alan Spiro, MD and the director of the Duke Leadership Program in Integrative Healthcare, Adam Perlman, MD, MPH
They suggest that alongside of two prevailing models of care – “biomedical” and “integrative” – a […]
NIM TV interviews Mikkel Anthonisen, MD Founder of Sailing Sclerosis Foundation and Iben Skyd, MS Crew Oceans of Hope. An intimate, inside-look and discussion with a doctor and a patient who work and live with Multiple Sclerosis (MS).
The Sailing Sclerosis project, Oceans of Hope (OOH), helps to change the perception of multiple sclerosis by […]
IKEA Way to Better Healthcare, a powerful post-humous video keynote for ECIM 2015 Global Summit in Greater Copenhagen presented by patient expert, Michael Hay, former Creative Director for IKEA Global Communications, who delivered important directives to city mayors and doctors:
In 30 years, 70% of the world’s population will live in cities, so in the future, city mayors […]
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Based on our collective commitment to reach the Sustainable Development Goals 2030 and a shared vision to improve human health and wellbeing for all, we aim to build a concerted, global movement to advance the integrative health & medicine approach, based on mutual respect, exchange, collaboration […]
According to Dr. Aseem Malhotra, a London-based cardiologist and adviser to the National Obesity Forum,
Nuts, olive oil and vegetables are the best heart medicine…It may be hard to believe but poor diet now contributes to more disease and death than physical inactivity, smoking and alcohol combined, according to The Lancet…The combined costs of type 2 […]
