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Complementary Medicine

2008-05-09T17:49:27-04:00

Dan Labriola, ND, Director, Naturopathic Services, Swedish Cancer Institute, Seattle, WA, discusses complementary therapy.

References and Resources
Wheeler P, Hyland ME. Dispositional predictors of complementary medicine and vitamin use in students. J Health Psychol. 2008 May;13(4):516-9.

Crisanti MC, Koutzaki SH, Mondrinos MJ, Lelkes PI, Finck CM. Novel methods for delivery of cell-based therapies. J Surg Res. 2008 May 1;146(1):3-10.

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The Doctor's Channel Has Positive Impact on Cancer Foundation

2008-04-24T18:06:12-04:00

At the 2008 Atlantic Regional Osteopathic Convention, Joseph Minniti, Founder and Director of The Cancer Foundation for Personal Appearance Inc., gives feedback on how The Doctor's Channel has impacted his foundation.

The Cancer Foundation for Personal Appearance

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Tropical Toast at Diana's - Charleston, SC

2008-04-04T18:26:24-04:00

Tropical Toast at Diana's is a full-service restaurant that specializes in unique decadent dishes. You can start pleasing your stomach at breakfast time, when Diana's serves the overstuffed French toast, hand-cut, currant-berry bread stuffed with cinnamon apples and topped with apple-cider syrup and whipped cream. Lunch and dinner offerings feature such items as the popular Market Ham Melt sandwich, which is asparagus wrapped in roasted ham with alfalfa sprouts, roasted red peppers and melted gruyere and honey mustard on thick-cut wheat bread. Dining there is like visiting the neighbor who also happens to be the neighborhood's best cook!

tropicaltoast.com

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Home Restaurant – San Francisco, CA

2008-03-26T15:26:21-04:00

Home chefs seamlessly blend gourmet intricacies with a comfort menu that Home Restaurant is well-known for. Unbelievable pastry creations will make you wish you had left more room for dessert. Macaroni and cheese labeled by some as the "Best in the West," melt-in-your-mouth pot roast or Home's killer banana bread pudding will make you craving for more for days on end.

home-sf.com

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Hong Kong Flower Lounge – San Francisco, CA

2008-03-26T15:22:44-04:00

Hong Kong Flower Lounge serves some of the best Cantonese and Mandarin food in San Francisco. Huge and bustling, with families packed at every table, its obvious it is a winner. Their Peking duck is one of the best, and the minced squab is delicious. If available, order the roast baby pig; or any of their specialty dumplings. It is renowned for its sumptuous Dim Sum lunches and fresh seafood specialties, with a balance between traditional and contemporary Chinese dishes.

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Farina Restaurant - San Francisco, CA

2008-03-26T14:55:42-04:00

Farina brings to San Francisco the simplicity, elegance and style of the culinary tradition of Italy. You can admire the preparation of freshly homemade pastas, enjoying the tasteful “focaccia di Recco”. Their light, garlicky pesto laces each tender bite of their home made pasta with a kick of heavenly spice. When it's accompanied by Farina's justly famous cappon magro vecchia Genova, chilled salad with halibut, lobster, mussels, shrimp, cauliflower, beet, and boiled eggs, you'll float off contentedly into the night.

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Bi-Rite Creamery – San Francisco, CA

2008-03-26T14:52:09-04:00

Bi-Rite creamery focuses on local, organic ingredients and mixes them into some unusual and delicious ice cream flavors. The coffee toffee has huge bits of toffee dispersed through the cream and the lemon is silky. If you know the salted caramels of France, you’ll appreciate Bi-Rite's version of salted caramel ice cream. The flavors might sound nouveau – roasted banana and honey lavender, but when it comes down to the spoonful, it just tastes heavenly.

biritecreamery.com

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Tartine Bakery – San Francisco, CA

2008-03-26T14:47:35-04:00

Tartine Bakery serves breakfast pastries in small batches from the oven throughout the day, hot pressed sandwiches, croques monsieur as well as pies, cakes, tarts and pastries. Choices of breakfast pastry, cakes and tarts will vary according to season, availability of produce, and the whims of the pastry chefs, but be rest assured you are getting the finest pastries around.

Tartinebakery.com

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The Deck Aboard CUNARD-Queen Mary 2

2008-03-25T17:35:50-04:00

The Queen Mary 2 remains the largest ocean liner ever built, and her width, length, and waterline breadth are unsurpassed by any other passenger ship. There is a continuous beautiful wrap-around promenade deck on Deck 7 that passes behind the bridge screen and allows passengers to completely circumnavigate the deck while protected from the strong winds generated by the ship at full speed. One circuit of the promenade is a distance of 620 meters 2034 ft., or .38 miles, leaving much room to take in such beautiful sights.

CUNARD-Queen Mary 2

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Todd English Restaurant Aboard CUNARD-Queen Mary 2

2008-03-25T17:30:58-04:00

Todd English, one of America's leading chefs, has opened a Todd English restaurant aboard the Queen Mary 2. This is the chef's first venture at sea and highlights his interpretive Mediterranean cuisine. The 216-seat venue has both indoor and poolside seating and English has worked very closely with the London-based design team to create a visually stunning atmosphere.

CUNARD-Queen Mary 2

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