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Since 1983, Townsend Letter has been publishing a print alternative medicine magazine. As a forum for the entire alternative medicine community, we present scientific information (pro and con) on a wide variety of alternative medicine topics — including EDTA Chelation Therapy.

A Debate: Homeopathy – Quackery or a Key to the Future of Medicine?
University of Connecticut Health Center; Farmington, Connecticut; October 25, 2007
Last fall, six internationally renowned experts debated the efficacy of homeopathy. The excerpts published here reveal a lively debate on a medical modality that has inspired and confounded experts for two centuries.
Literature Review & Commentary
Alan R. Gaby, MD
The Lyme-Autism Connection
More Proof That Lyme Disease and Multiple Infections Play Roles in Autism
Tami Duncan
Systemic Intracellular Bacterial Infections (Mycoplasma, Chlamydia, Borrelia species) in Neurodegenerative (Multiple Sclerosis, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Alzheimer's) and Behavioral (Autistic Spectrum Disorders) Diseases
by Prof. Garth L. Nicolson
Professor Garth Nicolson reports on research that reveals and underscores the significant presence of systemic bacterial, viral, and/or fungal infections in causing and perpetuating neurodegenerative diseases and behavioral neurological conditions, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, autistic spectrum disorders, and Lyme disease. In his extensive review, the author investigates the roles Mycoplasma species, Chlamydia pneumoniae, Brucella species, Borrelia burgdorferi, and other infections play in specific disease states, and he calls for an integrative, long-term treatment approach.
Letter to the Editor:
Restoring Optimal Brain Function Helps Many Health Problems: ADD; Autism; Depression; Fibromyalgia; Anxiety; Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder; Learning Disorders; Strokes; Parkinson's Disease; Multiple Sclerosis
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Healing with Electromedicine and Sound Therapies Part 2
by Nenah Sylver, PhD
Letter from the Publisher
Shorts by Jule Klotter
Web Page Potpourri
Questioning and Correcting Attention Deficit Disorder
Marjorie Roswell

Healing with Homeopathy
A Woman with Seasonal Allergies, Depression, Anxiety, and Menstrual Problems
by Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman, ND, DHNAP, LCSW, and Robert Ullman, ND, DHANP
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History of Mesotherapy
by Harry Adelson
Although the use of intracutaneous injections for the treatment of chronic pain and acute injury is well regarded in Europe, the technique is not used much in the US. Safe, cost-effective, and successful, mesotherapy provides longer-lasting therapeutic effects and deserves serious consideration.
History of The Roger Wyburn-Mason and Jack M. Blount Foundation for Eradication of Rheumatoid Disease (a.k.a., The Arthritis Trust of America or The Rheumatoid Disease Foundation)
by Perry A. Chapdelaine, Sr.
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Townsend Letter's Third "Best of Naturopathic Medicine" Competition.
Students, faculty, clinic physicians and associated health professionals are Invited to submit articles, reviews, and essays.

Winners will be published in the February/March 2009 issue and will receive an award of $400.

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