Alternative Medicine News

PHILADELPHIA – Highlights from this year’s American College of Physicians Internal Medicine Meeting included “practice-changing” information related to gastroenterology, infectious diseases, medical marijuana, allergies, rheumatology and arthritis, according to Healio Primary Care Today board member Alan Dow, MD, MSHA.

LOS ANGELES — Other than taking calcium and vitamin D simultaneously, there is a paucity of evidence to support consuming vitamins and minerals for bone health and fracture prevention, a speaker at the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists Annual Scientific and Clinical Congress said.

PHILADELPHIA — The prevention or treatment of some medical conditions, such as cancer-related fatigue, heart disease, infertility and osteoporosis may be complemented with herbs and supplements, according to a speaker at the American College of Physicians Internal Medicine Meeting.

PHILADELPHIA — More than 150 years after the first medicinal use of marijuana was recorded, and there is still not an abundance of research surrounding its use for that purpose, according to a speaker at the American College of Physicians Internal Medicine Meeting.

Men who had ever smoked marijuana had significantly higher sperm concentrations than men who did not, according to findings recently published in Human Reproduction.

Cannabis seemed safe, effective and well-tolerated in treating young patients with autism, according to findings recently published in Scientific Reports.

In a CME article published by Psychiatric Annals, researchers discussed the growing evidence supporting yoga as a beneficial add-on treatment for depression and how mental health practitioners can encourage patients to give it a try.

Veterans with mild traumatic brain injury and PTSD receiving real acupuncture showed greater improvement in sleep measures than those receiving a sham needling procedure, according to data from a randomized clinical trial published in Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

Patellar mobilization therapy — patellofemoral joint mobilization followed by supervised nonload vastus medialis oblique exercise — showed potential in reducing pain in patients with knee osteoarthritis, according to phase 2 findings recently published in Annals of Family Medicine.

Transcendental Meditation, a non-trauma-focused intervention, was noninferior to prolonged exposure therapy in reducing PTSD symptom severity and comorbid depression in veterans with PTSD, according to findings from a randomized controlled trial.