By August West
(This article was originally published in Holistic Primary Care)
Women with breast cancer often experience severe joint pain as a consequence of treatment with aromatase inhibitors like Tamoxifen. Researchers in Barcelona suggest that vitamin D supplementation can prevent or at least reduce the pain. 
This is important because severe arthralgias often limit a woman’s willingness to complete tamoxifen treatment.
Daniel Prieto-Alhambra and colleagues at the Hospital del Mar, studied a cohort of 290 breast cancer patients undergoing treatment with Tamoxifen or another of...
David London, MD, ABIHM
The course and certification opened a stargate: a world of healthcare beyond the traditional beneficial to my patients, a rewarding and confident change of clinical practice from general psychiatry to integrative holistic psychiatry, and life-long learning as exciting as a favorite hobby.
Pearls from the 12th Annual Science and Clinical Application of Integrative Holistic Medicine Conference
Posted by Nancy Sudak, MD, ABIHM
We’d like to offer this space as a forum to discuss clinical pearls from our most recent Review Course, held November 6-11th, 2011 in St. Petersburg, FL. Please take a moment to offer your comments on pearls of wisdom you experienced at the conference!
To begin:
Dave Rakel, MD, in his lecture, “The Clinician Effect” challenged us with the statement that “The practitioner is more powerful than the pills we prescribe.” In a study that Rakel and his colleagues conducted in 2009, both the duration and severity of the common cold were reduced in patients...