ARTICLE

FindCenter AddIcon

Aviva Romm on the Impact of Midwifery Care on Lifelong Health

By Aviva Romm

We took this opportunity to talk with [Dr. Aviva Romm] about why she thinks midwifery care can improve lifelong health, the impact of interprofessional tensions between maternity health providers, and critical opportunities for midwives to seize now.

Read on mana.org

FindCenter Post-Image

Types of Complementary Therapies

When you discuss a complementary therapy with your health care team and they agree that it is safe to try as part of your overall cancer care, this is called “integrative medicine.”

Article
Cancer.net
2021
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

The Neuroscience of . . . Birth

In this article, we take a look at the numerous changes affecting a mother’s brain before and after birth, and then consider why so little research has been conducted on the brain during birth.

Article
Ruairi J Mackenzie
2021
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

East Meets West: How Integrative Medicine is Changing Health Care

A marriage of conventional Western medicine with other healing modalities, including complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), integrative medicine (IM) neither rejects conventional medicine nor uncritically embraces alternative therapies.

Article
Elizabeth A. Wang
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Can the World Mend in This Body?

The author writes that what she does on behalf of healing any individual or being must also be healing, even if not directly extended, for the world itself.

Article
Deena Metzger
2018
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

A Revolution in Healthcare

According to Rachel Naomi Remen, Integrative Medicine offers the promise of living a good life, even though it may not be an easy life, or even a long life.

Article
Rachel Naomi Remen
1999
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

What to Know About Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting (MBCP)

Research shows that utilizing mindfulness during pregnancy, childbirth, and beyond may actually reduce stress and lessen anxiety. And it may even lead to healthier newborns with fewer developmental issues as they grow up.

Article
Sherri Gordon
2021
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Listening in with . . . Andrew Weil

Wellness pioneer Andrew Weil, M.D., learned about healing first from Harvard Medical School and then from indigenous peoples on three continents.

Article
Katy Koontz
2016
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Lifestyle Counseling: A Missed Opportunity

We need to reduce our emphasis on disease management and emphasize health promotion instead. How much more desirable—and less expensive—it would be to prevent diabetes and heart disease, rather than to have to treat those diseases and their myriad complications.—Andrew Weil

Article
Andrew Weil
2012
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Self-Hypnosis: Alternative Anesthesia for Childbirth

The purpose of this article is to inform nurses about the use of self-hypnosis in childbirth. Hypnosis is a focused form of concentration.

Article
Debra Ketterhagen, Leona VandeVusse and Margaret Ann Berner
2002
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

What Is Integrative Medicine?

Integrative medicine pairs Western, or conventional, medicine with other treatments to care for your mind, body, and spirit.

Article
Sabrina Felson (medical reviewer)
2020
FindCenter AddIcon

EXPLORE TOPIC

Natural Childbirth