Thank you, everyone, for a successful 2015 Pacific Symposium, hosted at the Catamaran Resort Hotel in San Diego, CA from October 28 – November 3rd. With speakers and attendees from nearly every state in the country and several other nations besides, the 27th Symposium may have been our best yet! Jeffrey Yuen, Mazin Al-Khafaji, and Jill Blakeway were …
When allergies strike, they can affect almost every activity you do—from your voice and breathing to headaches and even how you approach your workflow, allergy symptoms can make it difficult to get through the day. One of the most common forms of seasonal allergies is allergic rhinitis, which affects the sinuses. Symptoms include sneezing, congestion, runny nose, …
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Tu Youyou, an 84-year-old Chinese scientist, was recently awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize for Medicine for her discovery and development of artemisinin, a malaria treatment that has saved millions of lives over the past few decades. Tu’s team of researchers rediscovered the drug, which has been known to Chinese medicine for at least 2000 years, in …
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Acupuncture and Massage Relieves Stress for 9/11 Heroes and Survivors at Tunnel to Towers Run on Sunday, September 27th NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 4, 2015 Contact: Cynthia Neipris (212) 982-3456 x229 [email protected] Sunday, September 27th – Police officers, firefighters, survivors of 9/11, family members, and supporters from throughout the world will receive acupuncture …
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What is sympathy? I say sympathy is the way of total acceptance and total transformation. Total acceptance is the job of the stomach and total transformation is the job of the spleen. This is the highest skill of the Earth element: total acceptance, total transformation. What most of us work with in life is partial …
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By Suzanne Robidoux, PhD, CM, DOM, LAc As practitioners, we always want to bring the quickest, most effective treatment at the lowest price possible. In TCM, sexual disorders are mainly due to either liver qi stagnation, liver and kidney depletion, or the kidney and heart not communicating. What can we offer our patients, however, once we …
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Pacific College of Oriental Medicine wishes to announce that it will host a site review for the initial accreditation of its Bachelor of Science in (Holistic) Nursing Completion Program by the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) from October 6th until October 8th. You are invited to meet the site visit team and share your comments about the program …
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On May 18, 2015, Naomi C. Broering, PCOM’s Dean of Libraries, received the Medical Library Association’s (MLA) first Hispanic heritage award at the annual MLA conference in Austin, Texas. Named the Naomi C. Broering Hispanic Heritage Award, the award honors and recognizes her past accomplishments in medical librarianship and library informatics. Naomi has a long …
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On April 25, 2015, a massive, magnitude 7.8 earthquake near Kathmandu demolished vast regions of the small Himalayan nation of Nepal. Nearly 9,000 people were killed and hundreds of thousands were left without shelter in the worst natural disaster to hit the nation in nearly a century. More than 20 people were killed on Mount …
The World Health Organization estimates that 15 million individuals suffer from stroke annually worldwide, most of whom live in developed countries, where hypertension, hypercholesterolemia and cardiac diseases are prevalent. Stroke is the third leading cause of fatality and ranks highest as a cause of disability.1 Global Stroke Statistics and Challenges in Treatment Western medicine has …
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