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Rouse building fitness club billed as mind-body retreat
The planned Columbia Association fitness club inside the former Rouse Co. building is being billed as mind-body wellness retreat where customers can "relax, retreat and rejuvenate," according to consultants hired by CA to study the project. "People are...
Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Architecture, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Frank Gehry, Personal Service
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Laurel healing institute receives university accreditation
Maryland will soon be home to a new university — one in which students can train in acupuncture, Chinese herbs and other forms of integrative medicine. The Tai Sophia Institute, a Howard County holistic health training center, has received state...
Tags: Philosophy, Health and Safety at School, Colleges and Universities, Howard County, Students
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Owen Brown resident advocates a healthy dialogue on wellness
Bob Duggan frequently refers to "our national disease-care system" when he talks about his new book, employing a term he has used across his 40-plus years as a healing-arts clinician and educator. As co-founder and former president of Tai Sophia...
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More hospitals allowing visits from patients' pets
Ask patients in some area hospitals which caregivers they most look forward to seeing, and they'll say the ones with hairy faces and bad breath.
For Sean Harris, they were his dogs Diesel and Wilson. For Michael Friedman, it was the family pooch,...Tags: Sheppard Pratt Health System, Mental Health, University of Maryland, College Park, Family, Rentals
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INDULGE: The 6 most decadent spa treatments in Howard County
What do mud, pure oxygen, lava shells and chocolate have in common? Each one is used by an area spa to deliver a unique relaxation and rejuvenation treatment. While pedicures, facials and Swedish massage will always be staples at spas and salons,...
Tags: Mayo Clinic, Aromatherapy, Butter, Hospitals and Clinics, Immune System
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Survey finds integrative medicine most useful for pain
A new survey of integrative medicine centers shows that the most commonly treated ailments are chronic pain, gastrointestinal conditions, depression and anxiety, cancer and chronic stress.
The survey was conducted at 29 centers, including the...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Health and Safety at School, Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, Colleges and Universities
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The power of light
It doesn’t look like much -- Janet Althen places what looks like a small flashlight with an inverted colored bulb on certain points of the body, holding it there for about 30 seconds -- but for Althen’s patients, as well as a growing number of...Tags: Mental Health, Germany, National Institutes of Health, Diabetes, Pregnancy and Childbirth
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The power of meditation
To understand the impact meditation can have on the human mind, picture a glass of muddy water. If you stir it, the water stays cloudy and anything that might sink to the bottom is instantly sucked back into motion. But if you allow the glass to become...Tags: Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Human Body, Psychotherapy
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Havre de Grace Physician Now Practicing Medical Acupuncture
Dr. Carol Cooper has taken an alternative path to healing the sick and the weary. A graduate of University of Maryland School of Medicine, Dr. Copper has been practicing family medicine for over 20 years. But sensing a frustration in her patients and a...Tags: Alcohol Addiction, University of Maryland, College Park, Migraine, Chemical Industry, Havre de Grace
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They're no longer your grandfather's senior centers
Interested in martial arts? How about yoga? Would a class in alternative medicine appeal to you? What if a place offered all of these, along with a well-equipped fitness center? Such places exist in Baltimore County. They're called senior centers. The...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Yoga, Hobbies, Retirement
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Acupuncture at Howard Community College draws crowds
It began at Howard Community College four years ago as a smoking cessation program, but apparently few students were willing to kick the habit via auricular acupuncture — a form of alternative medicine that involves insertion of fine needles into...Tags: Quitting Smoking, Colleges and Universities, Drugs and Medicines, Diseases and Illnesses, Human Body
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Baltimore County seniors static as population, active as individuals
Bucking a trend seen at the national, state and local levels, Baltimore County's population of 65-and-older residents has not significantly increased as a percentage of the county's overall population since 2000, according to recent census data.
While...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Physical Fitness and Exercise, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Demographics, Dance
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