1. Ear Crease Early Warning Sign of a Heart ...
A diagonal crease across your earlobe at a 45 degree downward angle toward your shoulder may be an early warning sign of a potentially fatal heart attack, according to reports in Modern Medicine (57,10:126) and British Heart Journal (611,4:361). You might think we’re pulling your, uh…, ears. But, scientists have ...
by lslade on 10/27 01:31PM - Story - 28,519 Hits

2. Baring their soles - What's with the barefoot ...
REBECCA ECKLER reports on the new foot fetish Whatever happened to the N3? (No shirt, no shoes, no service.) Ubiquitous photos of pop tart Britney Spears walking barefoot into a gas station washroom still have people trash talking. Then there was Barefoot Britney stepping on a hypodermic in Hawaii, parading ...
by lslade on 05/22 12:02PM - Story - 9,344 Hits

3. NEW Reflexology Path at Bastyr University, Seattle, Washington
Everyone knows there's nothing like a good foot massage. But at Bastyr University, a new pathway studded with jutting, smooth river stones is intended to offer more than relaxation. "It's preventive medicine", says Elizabeth Marazita, a licensed acupuncturist and a doctoral student in oriental medicine at Bastyr. Marazita designed the ...
by lslade on 09/23 10:11AM - Story - 6,170 Hits

4. "Meet the Fokkers" Star uses Ear Reflexology for ...
What do Barbra Streisand, Robert De Niro and the Universal College of Reflexology have in common? They all use Ear Reflexology! In the hilarious hit movie "Meet the Fokkers" Barbra Streisand plays the role of a Sex Therapist who uses Ear Reflexology as an aphrodisiac technique for her clients. Ms. ...
by lslade on 03/22 05:57PM - Story - 5,614 Hits

5. China's Booming Reflexology Industry Gives Employment to the ...
Foot Massage / Reflexology offices are sprouting up all over China. In big cities, like Beijing, there are shops on many street corners, and foot massage / reflexology chain stores employ thousands of workers. This mushrooming industry is producing thousands of new jobs for the blind, who traditionally in Asia ...
by lslade on 08/23 11:21AM - Story - 3,702 Hits

6. Reflexology & Breast Cancer UK Research
More clinical trials are needed into the benefits of complementary therapies for cancer patients, says one expert. Professor Leslie Walker said many patients benefit from relaxation therapy and "guided imagery" - or visualising the body beating tumours. The Cancer Research UK scientist says trials should look at the safety and ...
by lslade on 02/07 06:46PM - Story - 2,938 Hits

7. Reflexology: Can It Aid Fertility?
After three years of trying for a second child, Kath and Murray Chapman had almost given up hope. Doctors had told them Mrs Chapman had a hormone problem which meant fertility treatment would be a waste of time. But the 40- year-old mother remembered she had read somewhere that reflexology ...
by lslade on 11/02 03:25PM - Story - 2,575 Hits

8. Donald Trump adds Reflexology to Mar-a-Largo Spa
An article about Donald Trump notes, "As for Mar-a-Largo spa, aerobic exercise is an activity Trump indulges in 'as little as possible' and he's therefore chosen not to micromanage its daily affairs. Instead he brought in a Texas outfit called the Greenhouse Spa, proven specialists in mud wraps, manual lymphatic ...
by Admin on 06/01 02:15PM - Story - 2,535 Hits

9. Reflexology offered to UK Prisoners to Relieve Stress
Inmates at the new Peterborough prison are to be treated to soothing Reflexology and Indian Head Massages. Bosses at the prison are advertising for two part-time holistic therapists to give prisoners the kind of treatments offered by health and beauty salons in the city. United Kingdom Detention Services (UKDS), which ...
by lslade on 05/31 09:15AM - Story - 2,422 Hits

10. Medical Schools Embrace Healing Arts - Reflexology
PHILADELPHIA - Once largely dismissed as a leftover fad from the Age of Aquarius, acupuncture, herbal remedies and other forms of alternative medicine are finding their way into curriculums at traditional medical schools — most recently the University of Pennsylvania. Doctors at Penn are working with Tai Sophia Institute, an ...
by lslade on 06/09 06:37AM - Story - 2,412 Hits

11. $3 Million Research Grant Awarded for Reflexology
LANSING -- A Michigan State University researcher wants to know if a natural healing therapy will help women cope with treatment for late-stage breast cancer. A $3 million National Institutes of Cancer grant will pay for a five-year study of Michigan breast cancer patients treated with reflexology, a massagelike technique ...
by lslade on 10/06 10:09AM - Story - 2,319 Hits

12. Superman Dies of a Bed Sore!
We were saddened to learn of the passing of Christopher Reeve who worked so hard to bring hope to the lives of spinal chord injury sufferers. Mr. Reeve vowed to walk again and through his efforts medical science learned that nerves could be regenerated. He inspired Californians to pass the ...
by lslade on 11/02 09:20AM - Story - 2,300 Hits

13. Beta Blockers - 'a very honest mistake'
An entirely unwarranted assumption made by the medical profession more than 10 years ago that beta blockers would be effective in treating high blood pressure - even though they had never been tested against other drugs - may have resulted in tens of thousands of deaths, new research revealed this ...
by lslade on 11/02 06:05PM - Story - 2,265 Hits

14. Copyrighting Smelly Feet? What Next?
The aroma of sweaty feet, armpits, dirty laundry, and soiled diapers are all now highly sought-after scents, as companies, pursuing smelly-branding have all lined up, excited for having exclusive rights to aromas which they can use to bring odor to their lifeless products. Like, peachy-smelly-bras or chocolate-smelly-underpants and so on. ...
by lslade on 11/02 02:04PM - Story - 2,201 Hits

15. Reflexology & Fertility
'I only wish I'd tried this sooner' Women with fertility problems are turning to reflexology - and the results are so impressive, now a hospital trial has begun, says Rebecca Hardy When Paula Lavin, 34, decided that she wanted a second baby, the doctors said that it was "highly unlikely" ...
by Admin on 06/01 04:16PM - Story - 2,197 Hits

16. The Queen, Canada & Reflexology
Queen Elizabeth, dressed in a red hat and khaki raincoat and carrying a clear umbrella with red trim, arrived at the Saskatchewan legislature with husband Prince Phillip on Wednesday for the second day of her nine-day tour to Canada. As was reported in The Sun last year, the Queen has ...
by lslade on 05/18 03:55AM - Story - 2,194 Hits

17. World Reflexology Week Sept 18-24, 2005
The focus of World Reflexology Week is to promote greater public awareness of reflexology around the globe. The International Council of Reflexologists have for the past few years, been promoting World Reflexology Week as the last week of September every year. It's goal is to generate more health conscious minds, ...
by lslade on 08/24 05:45PM - Story - 2,163 Hits

18. Reflexology Comforts Breast Cancer Patients
EAST LANSING, Mich. – Researchers at Michigan State University are finding that many women who are receiving chemotherapy while in the late stages of breast cancer are turning to a complementary therapy known as reflexology to help them cope. In a pilot study, researchers from MSU’s College of Nursing tested ...
by lslade on 10/01 05:19PM - Story - 2,120 Hits

19. Doctor doesn't always know best
Source Daily Telegraph By Dr James LeFanu (Filed: 28/05/2006) Complementary therapies can certainly be pretty half baked, both in theory and practice, or as a group of "prominent doctors" put it earlier this week in refreshingly robust prose: "unproven treatments of no demonstrable benefit". And while they conceded it was ...
by lslade on 05/29 05:39PM - Story - 2,114 Hits

20. Gaza Evacuees Get Reflexology in Jerusalem
From afar you could almost mistake the 60 families from the former Gaza settlement of Neveh Dekalim, who are staying at Jerusalem's Regency Hotel, for a group of religious families on a joint communal holiday. Their day starts with a buffet breakfast. Afterwards, there are an array of cultural activities ...
by lslade on 08/25 03:04PM - Story - 2,082 Hits

21. Ulster Experts Research Relief for MS
Leading Ulster scientists are investigating the possibility of reflexology easing the pain for multiple sclerosis sufferers. Over the next 18 months the University of Ulster team will measure the effect of reflexology on 100 MS patients cross Ulster, recording the impact of precision body treatments including foot massage and other ...
by Admin on 06/01 06:10AM - Story - 1,929 Hits

22. Reflexology back in Vogue
As young Shanghainese discover the health benefits of foot reflexology, this ancient traditional Chinese treatment is coming back into vogue in a big way, writes Xu Wei.
by Admin on 06/01 02:18PM - Story - 1,908 Hits

23. Coronation Street features a Reflexologist
Coronation Street, Britains beloved soap opera now in it's 45th year, is now featuring a Reflexologist, hired at the local doctors office. Viewers around the world, numbering millions will have to wait to see these episodes. Here in Canada we are approximately six months behind those episodes currently airing in ...
by lslade on 08/23 11:40AM - Story - 1,786 Hits

24. Tis the season for Vitamin Bashing Again!
Did you see the scary global headlines? It was the top news story on every network TV newscast in North America, headlines in most city newspapers and highlighted on nearly every local radio station, not to mention web news late in 2004!
by lslade on 12/23 03:19AM - Story - 1,759 Hits

25. The Complementary Medical Association’s Response to the recent ...
Professor Michael Baum, Emeritus Professor of Surgery, University College London, and 12 other doctors and scientists published an open letter in The Times newspaper on 23 May which was circulated to all 476 National Health Service (NHS) Trusts. This letter was basically an attack upon “Alternative Medicine” and it’s use ...
by lslade on 05/24 03:46PM - Story - 1,736 Hits

26. Indonesia - Jakarta to have Largest Reflexology Center
The National Monument Park (Monas) in Central Jakarta will have a 4,000-sq meter reflexology field, said to be the largest in the world. ANTARA reported here Saturday that hundreds of people began walking barefoot on reflexology lines in the park, which also has a deer breeding ground. They walked on ...
by Admin on 06/01 04:17PM - Story - 1,643 Hits

27. Moon Reflexology
"Riddler's Moon," starring Kate Mulgrew ("Star Trek: Voyager"), Corbin Bernsen ("L.A. Law") made in 1998 features Reflexology. George decides Victoria needs relaxing after all the stresses she has been under and decides the Reflexology is just the answer she has been looking for. The story line is that widow Victoria ...
by lslade on 09/08 12:50PM - Story - 1,630 Hits

28. The Actress, the Migraine & the Reflexologist
Maureen Lipman, distinguished and much admired British actress, writes in her weekly column, on December 16th, 2005 in The Guardian newspaper, how reflexology once again saved her life. She describes her experience of the migraine from hell. Maureen says “This migraine struck on a two-show Saturday. I had merrily declined ...
by lslade on 12/16 03:51PM - Story - 1,539 Hits

29. Reflexology goes to the Dentist
New York dentists Greg Lituchy and Marc Lowenberg provide the services of a hand and foot reflexology practitioner for anxious clients. So far, it's been a strategy that works for the two who attract a "movie star list to their Central Park office." Courtney Cox and Paul Reiser of television ...
by Admin on 06/01 02:14AM - Story - 1,379 Hits

30. Queen goes for a Yoga & Reflexology doc!
The Queen has a new found love for the East as she seems all taken in by the ancient Hindu ritual of practicing Yoga! According to The Sun, the Queen has a new pal in the form of Dr Timothy Evans, who favours alternative medicine and has currently taken over ...
by Admin on 06/01 10:16AM - Story - 1,296 Hits