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Doctors abandoning patients over herbal medicine, claims charity boss

Daily Telegraph - Fri Dec 4, 2:48 am ET

Doctors have been accused of "abandoning patients to quackery" by failing to push for tighter regulation on herbal and Chinese medicine.

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Yoga Instructors Under Fire in Virginia
FOX 5 Washington D.C. - Tue Dec 1, 7:06 pm ET
A trio of local yoga instructors is ready to make a federal case out of their business. The problem? The state of Virginia wants to regulate how they teach.
Concerns raised over degrees that allow foreign students to stay
Daily Telegraph - Fri Dec 4, 2:47 am ET
Tens of thousands of foreign students are being allowed to stay in the UK for another two years and find jobs after gaining degrees from hundreds of colleges that are not "proper" universities, the Government's chief immigration adviser has warned.
Experts: Placebo power behind many natural cures
San Jose Mercury News - Fri Dec 4, 12:27 am ET
Editor's note: Ten years and $2.5 billion in research have found no cures from alternative medicine.
Baby Yoga
WKBW-TV Buffalo - Tue Dec 1, 1:45 pm ET
Reporter Laura Gray reports that "Baby Yoga" helps moms relieve some stress, and gives babies a fun exercise activity.
Aniston launches Yoga DVD
Hollywood.com - Tue Dec 1, 9:23 am ET
Jennifer Aniston is set to share the secret of her stunning figure - the Hollywood actress has teamed up with her Yoga instructor to launch a DVD workout.
Jen Aniston shills for yoga buddy
New York Post - Tue Dec 1, 5:03 am ET
Jennifer Aniston is so grateful for her amazing figure that she's launching a DVD for her yoga instructor, Mandy Ingber. Aniston has jetted back from her Moroccan break to host a party for Ingber's DVD Yogalosophy at the Sunset Towers hotel in LA on ...
Trainers of teachers cope with new rules for ancient practice
The Virginian-Pilot - Fri Dec 4, 12:02 am ET
For the first time in her 10 years of teaching yoga, Ann Richardson paid a $2,500 fee, went to Richmond for a meeting and did hours of paperwork - just so she could continue to train yoga teachers. A new state requirement mandates that any program that trains yoga teachers must be certified. And that's led to some less-than-serene moments among the state's yoga instructors.
Va. instructors: Yoga regulations unconstitutional
WXOW 19 La Crosse - Tue Dec 1, 12:53 pm ET
The state of Virginiawants to make sure that if you learn to be a yoga instructor, the people who teach you the Half Moon, the Sleeping Vishnu and the Upward Facing Dog poses know what they're doing.
Virginia Instructors: Yoga Regulations Unconstitutional
WUSA 9 Washington, D.C. - Tue Dec 1, 12:19 pm ET
Three Virginia yoga instructors say the state's plans to regulate and license would-be yoga instructors is an unlawful infringement of free speech.
Indonesia to produce A/H1N1 vaccine next year
People's Daily - 8 minutes ago
Indonesia would produce 2 million doses vaccine in November next year to stop further spread of A/H1N1 flu that has killed 10 people in the Southeast Asian country, Health Ministry said in Jakarta Friday. Director General of Disease Control and Environmental Health of the ministry Tjandra Yoga Aditama said that the vaccine would be produced by the country's drug maker Biofarma. "The production ...