University researchers study effects of yoga, mindfulness, and other alternative therapies5/14/2018
University Medical Center, Center for Contemplative Studies collaborate on research regarding alternative therapies By Divya Shan | 05/09/2018 At the University, various departments are investigating the use of alternative therapies. Alternative therapies are treatments that are either used instead of or in conjunction with medical treatments, such as acupuncture, yoga and meditation.
Dr. Ina Stephens, an associate professor of pediatrics and medical education and a registered yoga instructor, is in the midst of conducting research that investigates the effects of prenatal yoga therapy on high-risk pregnant mothers, which has never been done in the United States. In fact, there have only been about three studies done in this field and all of them were done in India. The studies conducted in India showed that prenatal yoga was beneficial in helping with postpartum depression, stress, gestational hypertension and gestational diabetes. Read Entire Article: http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2018/05/university-researchers-study-effects-of-yoga-mindfulness A wonderful article about a New York veterinarian who specializes in acupuncture - and house calls.5/9/2018
By Corey Kilgannon
March 22, 2018 Dr. Jeff Levy knocked gently on an apartment door on the Lower East Side of Manhattan on Tuesday afternoon. “I knock lightly because dogs can get upset if you knock loud, or with a cat, it might run under the bed,” said Dr. Levy, a veterinarian who specializes in acupuncture, exclusively by house call. This house call was for Harpo, a 10-year-old toy fox terrier with a liver tumor that was diagnosed a year ago as terminal and untreatable. “They told me to just keep him happy for his last couple of months,” said Harpo’s owner, Jess Caragliano, 36, who heard that Dr. Levy, 61, could help provide palliative care during Harpo’s last few weeks. Read Article: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/22/nyregion/with-a-metrocard-and-needles-a-vet-makes-house-calls.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FAcupuncture SOCIAL MEDIA
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This is what students like to call a “physics for poets” class — a class that explores the history of how humanity has confronted some of the deepest questions we can ask about the material world and our place in it, without the math. It is a class that tries to capture the true spirit of the liberal-arts education, mixing the sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences as different and complementary ways of knowing the world and why we matter. In fancier words, as an intellectual history of physics and astronomy, the class requires that scientific thinking be contextualized culturally, so that students can situate the ways in which some of the most revolutionary ideas in the past 2,000 years emerged when they did. Read Entire Article: https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2018/03/28/597496820/teaching-and-learning-at-the-boundaries-of-two-cultures The first polar bear born in Britain for 25 years has emerged from its den.
Although it arrived the week before Christmas, the creature has only just made its debut in front of the wider world at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland’s Highland Wildlife Park in Kincraig. Its mother, Victoria, made a ramp from snow so it can leave the shelter more easily. Read Article: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/watch-polar-bear-cub-video-first-britain-25-years-royal-zoological-society-scotlands-highland-a8260321.html (Article Originally Published: February, 2016)
It's almost impossible to find someone who doesn't feel a strong connection to music. Even if you can't carry a tune or play an instrument, you can probably reel off a list of songs that evoke happy memories and raise your spirits. Surgeons have long played their favorite music to relieve stress in the operating room, and extending music to patients has been linked to improved surgical outcomes. In the past few decades, music therapy has played an increasing role in all facets of healing. What is music therapy? Music therapy is a burgeoning field. People who become certified music therapists are usually accomplished musicians who have deep knowledge of how music can evoke emotional responses to relax or stimulate people or help them heal. They combine this knowledge with their familiarity with a wide variety of musical styles to find the specific kind that can get you through a challenging physical rehab session or guide you into meditation. And they can find that music in your favorite genre, be it electropop or grand opera. Read Entire Article: www.health.harvard.edu A type of ice crystal in gems points to liquid existing up to 800 kilometers below the surface.
BY CAROLYN GRAMLING 2:22PM, MARCH 8, 2018 "Deep within the hot interior of the planet, ice lurks. Now, a form of super-compact ice, found embedded in diamonds, offers the first direct clue that there is abundant water more than 610 kilometers deep in the mantle. This ice, identified by its crystal structure and called ice-VII, doesn’t exist at Earth’s surface. It forms only at pressures greater than about 24 gigapascals — corresponding to depths between 610 and 800 kilometers, researchers report March 8 in Science. Its presence in diamonds suggests that there is water-rich fluid in the transition zone between the upper and lower mantle, and even into the top of the lower mantle. “This is really the first time that we see water at such depths,” says Oded Navon, a mantle petrologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who was not involved in the new study." Read Entire Article: www.sciencenews.org/article/diamonds-reveal-sign-deepest-water-known-inside-earth?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_profile_view_base_recent_activity_details_shares%3BPd6tYFCMTciK8MhU2ltqvw%3D%3D |
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