The U.S. health regulator on Wednesday approved Switzerland-based Ferring Pharmaceuticals’ fecal transplant-based therapy to reduce the recurrence of a bacterial infection, making it the first therapy of its kind to be cleared in the United States. The therapy, Rebyota, targets Clostridium difficile, or C. difficile—a superbug responsible for infections that can cause serious and life-threatening…
Johnson & Johnson’s Blood Cancer Therapy Gets FDA Approval
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Johnson & Johnson’s therapy for treating a type of multiple myeloma, the company said on Tuesday, giving another treatment option to patients with the incurable blood cancer. J&J’s teclistamab, branded as Tecvayli, is approved for treating adults with multiple myeloma that is hard to treat or has…
Bach Flower Remedies and Shen Nong Rely on Nature as an Antidote to Disease
In ancient and modern medicine, both in the East and the West, it is believed that one’s spirit plays a large part in the health of the human body. My teacher once said that when a person is sick, it is often, “70 percent due to spirit and 30 percent due to illness.” I remember…
The Surprising Benefits of Cold Plunge Therapy
Perhaps you’re familiar with the polar bear plunge, where individuals willingly jump, run, or dive into icy cold water. Such events are typically done as fundraisers and aren’t a routine activity. However, some people participate in cold plunge therapy, a healing technique that can be helpful for a wide variety of conditions and ailments when…
New Therapy Works Wonders on Difficult Kids
Australian psychologists have found a solution that could give worn-out parents new hope after it was shown the improvements in disruptive behaviour learned by the children had lasting results well after the new behavioural therapy ended, compared with existing treatments. Clinical psychologist specialising in behaviour problems in children Georgie Fleming said they saw a sustained…
Psychologists Have Traditionally Focused on the Past but What If That’s All Wrong?
For more than a century, psychologists such as Sigmund Freud and Carl Rogers focused people’s attention on the past. And so when Mary struggles to maintain romantic relationships, she blames her past boyfriends for it. When Chris battles with addiction, he digs into his memories from childhood when he first felt humiliated. And when Saoirse doesn’t want to settle…
3-Year-Old Remembers Past Life as Snake? Gives Verified Details of Encounter With Hunter
A young boy named Dalawong in Thailand was 3 years old when he met an acquaintance of his father’s, named Mr. Hiew, for the first time. The boy seemed to know in detail about a confrontation Hiew once had with a snake—but how Dalawong knew these details remains a mystery. Dalawong claimed it was because…
Therapies That Can Help Ease Long COVID Breathlessness, Fatigue
Occupational therapy or low-impact exercise might be the key to relieving long-haul COVID symptoms like extreme fatigue, breathlessness and brain fog, a pair of new studies from Ireland suggest. The studies reflect two different — in some ways, opposite — approaches to dealing with symptoms that tend to plague long COVID patients. One study taught long COVID…
A Physicist’s Explanation of Why the Soul May Exist
Henry P. Stapp is a theoretical physicist at the University of California–Berkeley who worked with some of the founding fathers of quantum mechanics. He does not seek to prove that the soul exists, but he does say that the existence of the soul fits within the laws of physics. It is not true to say…
Psychological Interventions + Physical Therapy Ease Chronic Low Back Pain
For people with chronic, nonspecific low back pain, psychological interventions are most effective when delivered in conjunction with physical therapy care (mainly structured exercise), according to a review published online March 30 in The BMJ. Emma Kwan-Yee Ho, from University of Sydney, and colleagues conducted a systematic literature review to identify randomized controlled trials comparing psychological…
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