12 SIHA DISTRICT, Tanzania—Maria Paulo sat on a bench in the middle of the playground outside the children’s tuberculosis ward at the Kibong’oto National TB Hospital, adjusting her red shúkà wrap and bobbing her 3-year-old grandson, Musa, on her knee. She had brought Musa to the TB hospital from their Maasai village, after both traditional [...]
9 June 2011 Last updated at 13:13 ET Karen Howell is an archivist at the Herb Garret. A small wasteland in Southwark has been transformed into a pop-up medical garden by more than 100 volunteers. The Urban Physic Garden opens on Saturday for just six weeks on a neglected plot of land to celebrate London’s [...]
I might as well begin by being blunt. There is no love lost between the medicine I was taught in medical school and the kind I practice now, which used to travel under the name of mind-body medicine. It acquired ayurveda (the traditional medicine of India) along the way and now incorporates influences from many [...]