Archive for 'Plotnikoff'
Allina doctor takes issue with new vitamin D recommendations
[KARE-TV, November 30, 2010] Vitamin D and calcium have long been touted as two of the best things for strong bones, muscles and teeth. But get too much and some experts say vitamin D may damage the kidneys and heart. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) released new recommendations Tuesday. It now recommends adults get around [...]
Posted: December 1st, 2010, 11:01 am under Institute for Health and Healing, KARE11, Plotnikoff.
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‘Little purple pill’ is under microscope
[Star Tribune, October 2, 2010] Dr. Marcus Thygeson once wrote his patients countless prescriptions for heartburn drugs such as Prevacid, Prilosec and Nexium — the “little purple pills” of TV ads. But several months ago, when his own doctor advised him to start taking the pills, he refused. “It was all I could do to [...]
Posted: October 5th, 2010, 3:08 pm under Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Allina System, Center for Innovation, Institute for Health and Healing, integrative medicine, Plotnikoff, Star Tribune.
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Take two needles and call me in the morning
[St. Paul Pioneer Press, April 14, 2010] Five patients — with three new knees and two new hips among them — were rolled into a dimmed, windowless room at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis for group acupuncture. None had received the treatment before, but Cynthia Miller, a clinical acupuncturist, quickly had thin needles protruding from [...]
Posted: April 14th, 2010, 8:21 am under Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Institute for Health and Healing, newspapers, Patient Safety, Pioneer Press, Plotnikoff.
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Chasing After Hope, South of the Border
[Star Tribune, May 24, 2009] If cancer-stricken Danny Hauser and his mother have fled from their Minnesota farm to Tijuana, Mexico, they have joined a steady stream of sick people who cross the border searching for answers they don’t believe they can find anywhere else. The Hausers didn’t need to run to Mexico to find [...]
Posted: May 24th, 2009, 12:00 pm under Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Institute for Health and Healing, integrative medicine, newspapers, Plotnikoff, Star Tribune, _.
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