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Research News15 May, 2014 by David FinerAfter integrative care for pain at the anthroposophical hospital Vidarkliniken in Sweden, prescriptions for pain medications could be halved. Patients in conventional care however, purchased twice as many analgesics as before treatment. These are some results of a unique comparative study published in the high impact journal PLOS One. Physician Hans Johansson, Södertälje Hospital (not involved with the study), says that it is interesting and important. Read more 
Tags: anthroposophical integrative care, BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, CAM, case-control study, complementary and alternative medicine, David Finer, drug utilization, evidence, health, health care, health care cost, health economics, I C, integrative care, Integrative Care Science Center, integrative medicine, Karolinska Institutet, National Board of Health and Welfare, pain, prescribing, prospective, research, retrospective, Tobias Sundberg, Torkel Falkenberg, Vidarkliniken
Policy News28 February, 2014 by David Finer- Ignorance and fear are at the heart of the resistance to our proposals. Sweden is at least ten years behind in the field of diet and health. Our politicians must be bold enough to allocate more resources, says Dr. David Stenholtz, President of the recently formed NGO Physicians for the Future in this interview. Read more
Tags: advertising, advocay, carbohydrates, compliance, David Finer, David Stenholtz, diet, eating, food, health, health care, Karolinska Institutet, meat, media, NGO, nutrition, PCRM, politics, prevention, Stephan Rössner, tax, tax cuts, weight loss
Research News15 March, 2013 by David FinerA Swedish study links regular supplements of vitamin C to an increased risk of men getting kidney stones. The association is not a causal relationship, but for safety’s sake, consumers should refrain from taking high doses, says Agneta Åkesson, principal author of the study, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. Read more
Tags: causality, David Finer, Karolinska Institutet, kidney, observational study, supplements, vitamin C
Policy News19 September, 2012 by David Finer– In a caring conversation with a patient, we may suddenly see them as fellow human beings with their own life story. That is a good prescription against burnout, said kidney specialist and author Astrid Seeberger during a theme day on altruism in Stockholm recently. Read more
Tags: adherence, altruism, Astrid Seeberger, brain, Cabaret, care, caring, CCARE, Centre for Compassion and Altruism, clinical encounter, CNS, communication, compassion, compliance, concordance, cyberspace, Dan Hasson, David Finer, diagnosis, education, emotion, empathy, encounter, face to face, feeling, food, generosity, generous, golden rule, guidelines, health promotion, HealthWatch, Jakob Eklund, Karolinska Institutet, kidney, Ludvig Igra, Mälardalens Högskola, mirror neurons, mirroring, MR, MRI, narcotics, Nazi, Nazism, nephrology, nursing, patient-doctor, patient-doctor communication, psychology, reward system, self-compassion, self-esteem, sex, sleep, sociology, Stefan Einhorn, Stockholm University, story, storytelling, stress, stress management, stress research, suicide, sustainability, sustainable, teaching
