The Traditional Healer Resurfaces

The patient relationship and therapeutic techniques of the South Sotho traditional healer.

Until 1996 the practice of traditional healers was outlawed in South Africa and not afforded a legal position in the community of health care providers. In 1978 the World Health Organization (WHO) identified traditional healers as those people forming an essential core of primary health care workers for rural people in the Third World Countries. However in 1994 the new South African government ...

The traditional healer as part of the primary health care team?

Soul of the Healer

s of Articles Authored or Coauthored by Permanente Clinicians minority subgroup outcomes will assist more in-depth understanding of potential differences in either the processes or outcomes of behavior change interventions. CONCLUSIONS: Primary care clinicians, including obstetrician-gynecologists, can contribute to preventing CVD in women through implementing credible evidence-based recommenda...

DNA healer

that normally crowd the AIS’s plasma membrane dispersed. When ankyrinG was absent the erstwhile axons began to resemble dendrites, sprouting spines and developing excitatory synapses. Characteristic molecules from the cell body and dendrites, such as the microtubule polymerizing protein MAP2, also infi ltrated the axons. The AIS appears to serve as a fi lter that screens out dendritic proteins,...

Regeneration of articular cartilage in healer and non-healer mice

Mammals rarely regenerate their lost or injured tissues into adulthood. MRL/MpJ mouse strain initially identified to heal full-thickness ear wounds now represents a classical example of mammalian wound regeneration since it can heal a spectrum of injuries such as skin and cardiac wounds, nerve injuries and knee articular cartilage lesions. In addition to MRL/MpJ, a few other mouse strains such ...