Tag archive for ‘medicine’

  • Folk medicine can be a spiritual benefit for patients

    10/04/10 • (1)

    While assimilated members of the Valley’s Hmong population embrace Western medicine, many who fled Laos during the communist take-over of their government in the 1970s brought their traditional beliefs with them. At least one Fresno hospital is working with Hmong shamans to make room for folk medicine.

  • Digital diagnosis: More patients seeing doctors via Internet

    7/19/10 • (2)

    Is telemedicine as effective as seeing a doctor in person? Some San Joaquin Valley clinics say patients – especially in under-served rural areas – get faster results by seeing specialists via the Internet.

  • Dispelling myths about diabetes in the Central Valley

    4/19/10 • (0)

    One in 10 adults in California has diabetes, but in the rural communities of the Central Valley, many myths surround the disease. To open the discussion about diabetes on Valley Public Radio’s Quality of Life program, correspondent Shellie Branco visits one support group for Spanish speaking adults with diabetes. Here is her report.

  • Free health seminar on the ‘Pursuit of Happiness’

    4/15/10 • (0)

    Combining spirituality, modern medicine and science, Chinmaya Mission Bakersfield and Bakersfield Memorial Hospital will hold their 2010 Mind-Body Health Seminar this Saturday, April 17. The free seminar is titled “Pursuit of Happiness.”