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...considering the effectiveness of any medicine, conventional or herbal, it's important to consider that the placebo effect, or the patient's desire to believe in a cure, can have a powerful influence. Recent studies show, for instance, that while 86% of men taking a baldness remedy reported that it worked, so did 42% of men taking a placebo...
Doctors in Sydney recruited 116 patients who had not responded well to Western treatments. They divided them into three groups and sent each group to a Chinese herbalist, who wrote each patient an individualized prescription based on his or her complaints. Each prescription was then filled at a different location, where patients were randomly given pills that contained either a placebo of flavored compounds that tasted like herbs but had no medicinal effects, a standardized extract of 20 herbs designed to support bowel function in general, or the individually prescribed herbs. After 16 weeks of treatment, the two groups that...
...menu. The star of the spread was definitely the Beef Oxtail. The meat was unbelievably tender, the kind of tender where you practically don't have to chew. It had a piquant, peppery flavor with a full-bodied beefy sauce that can only be produced through hours of patient simmering. Very tasty. Also quite good was a chicken stew that was bizarrely Germanized on the menu as "Chicken Stroganoff." The chicken was smothered in a garlicky cream sauce with a surprising dash of ketchup that added a tangy touch-as well as a funky pinkish color. The buffet also included...
...ambulatory visits per year, with over 60 percent of them student visits. We emphasize preventive medicine as well as treatment. We have at least three intake mechanisms for collecting concerns about communication and quality of care: the Peer Student Advisory Program through the Student Health Advisory Council; the Patient Advocate's Office at 495-7583; and contact by telephone, letter or e-mail to the Director of UHS at 75 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, 495-2010 or drose@uhs.harvard.edu. We have a Quality Management Committee that is responsible for assuring that UHS quality monitoring systems are effective...
...take all student concerns seriously, and we want to hear them when they happen or as soon as possible to evaluate and respond to those concerns. We urge those students quoted in the article to contact the patient advocate so that we can investigate their complaints. If anyone has an issue, we urge him or her to contact UHS through any of the mechanisms above...