Department: Medicine with a Twist

A form of therapy, which uses art to treat patients suffering from physical, mental, and/or emotional disabilities.

How nanotechnology may help to seek and destroy tumors, or monitor our bodies for disease!

Have today's doctors lost their magic touch? Dr. Michael Moreton observed it in his mentor Lord Henry Cohen but claims that technology, pharmaceuticals, and litigation have ruined it for his generation. The magic may be gone, but can doctors get it back?

Resident plant expert Laura Crane tells you how to create a natural pharmacy in your own backyard.

Resident plant expert Laura Crane tells you how to create a natural pharmacy in your own backyard.

Imagine, not clinical detachment but a therapist who cries with you. Elena Avila is a Curandera who meets your spiritual as well as your physical needs.

In the 1930s, when doctors couldn't help her baby, a young mother turned to a a mysterious old man for a cure.

Fad diet directory: the "magic" diet pills and crazy regimens that just don't work.

The promise of a quick fix. We fall for it every time – and that's what the quacks are betting on.

Pet therapy helps patients in a way that doctors can't.

Snake oil or useful? We have compiled a four-part glossary of alternative and complementary treatments to help you.

Pharmacist Samuel Uretsky is philosophical about diseases that have no treatment.

Hippotherapy – using horse riding in the treatment of patients – is catching on with OTs, PTs, speech therapists, and others.

Want to eat well, be fair, and help the earth? Here are some eco-friendly and ethical diets to consider.

Can prayer heal physical diseases?

The slow food and organic movements aim to remind us how food used to taste before mass production, pesticides, GMOs, and fast food.

Looking for some old-fashioned cures for what ail you?

Will spring water prevent bedsores? Will that apple keep the doctor away? Does a dandelion know how long you'll live?

Despite controversy in the '80s, the various diets of the natural hygiene movement still have many followers.

Over the millennia, humanity has developed some bizarre and amusing "cure-alls."