Video Archives
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Nutrition and Cancer Treatment
What should you eat during cancer treatment? What foods will help to build your immune system? Dena Reagan, M.S., R.D., L.D., clinical dietition in the Department of Clinical Nutrition at M. D. Anderson, discusses nutrition as it relates to cancer treatment, and addresses patients' most frequently asked questions. In addition, patient and caregivers talk about their personal experiences. (17:34)
Acupuncture and the Brain
How does acupuncture affect brain activity in health human subjects? Are the central effects related to deqi, a psychosensory response related to the clinical efficacy in Chinese acupuncture? Kathleen KS Hui, M.D., of the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Assistant Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School, presents her recent work in whole brain imaging and acupuncture. (57:04)
Effects of Acupuncture on Cerebro-Cerebellar Activity by fMRI
Tibetan Herbs and Breast Cancer
Mary Tagliaferri, M.D., L.Ac., and Isaac Cohen, O.M.D., L.Ac., of bioNovo, Inc., and the University of California, San Francisco, discuss their work in discovery and the development of drugs based on herbs in Tibetan and traditional Chinese medicine for women's health and breast cancer. (1:03:49)
Indigenous Medicine in Africa and Modern Science
What is ethnopharmacology? Michael J. Wargovich, Ph.D., of the Chemoprevention Program, South Carolina Cancer Center Department of Pathology/Microbiology, USC School of Medicine, discusses his basic research in colon cancer, and the linkage between practitioners of indigenous medicine in Africa and modern scientific research. (48:12)
Out of Africa: Inflammation, Traditional Medicine and the Chemoprevention of Colon Cancer
Legal Aspects of CAM
Can integrative medicine be made legally defensible, ethically appropriate and clinically responsible? According to Michael Cohen, Esq.*, "It depends." In this video of a lecture on March 17, 2005, he presents a practice "legal audit" of integrative medicine, discussing key legal issues involving providers of complementary and alternative medicine, including licensure and credentialing, scope of practice, professional discipline and malpractice liability, citing numerous historical examples.
*Michael H. Cohen, J.D., M.B.A., M.F.A., assistant professor of medicine and director of legal programs at Harvard Medical School Osher Institute, designs policies and policies for a reproducible model of integrative health care in Harvard affiliated hospitals. He is the principal investigator on a NIH grant entitled Legal and Social Barriers to Alternative Therapy, as well as coinvestigator on several other NIH studies. In addtion, he is a member of the bar in four states and author of several books on regulation of complementary therapy and health care policy.