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Dr. Adam Law

My long term childhood friend and colleague, who practices from Ithaca in upstate New York as an endocronologist (www.ithacamed.com ), was recently thanked by The Tompkins Mental Health Services:

“Physician Adam Law was thanked for his conscientious and caring treatment of those with serious mental and physical challenges, but downplayed the achievement, saying it was simply a matter of listening to his patients.

“We all need to listen, not just with our intellects but our hearts as well,” Law said. “As long as we see the people in front of us as people and hear their stories, I think there is a lot of hope.” “

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ME ASSOCIATION NEW NATIONAL SURVEY

ME ASSOCIATION NEW NATIONAL SURVEY

The ME association has published the results of the largest independent survey for ME patients ever conducted in the UK.
The result of which treatments were most successful. Of a list of 25, 1st was Pacing and 2nd was Relaxation/meditation, both which obviously  help ME sufferers who are doing too much.
The 3rd most popular treatment (and dare I say the top actual treatment programe rather than just advice) is The Perrin technique

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Stress ‘slows healing’

Researchers have shown that stress and anxiety can make it more difficult for wounds to heal.  Professor John Weinman, from the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College London, presented the findings at the Cheltenham Science Festival.  Healthy volunteers, whose levels of stress were determined using a standard questionnaire, were subjected to small ‘punch’ wounds.

The wounds of the the most stressed candidates were found to heal twice as slowly as the least stressed candidates.  It was found that levels of the stress hormone cortisol determined the differences in healing rates.

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