The Ayre Clinic for Contemporary Medicine
Healthcare keeping pace with changing times
Mary Catherine Rhedin. Antioch News. July 31, 1997. Cancer is a frightening disease. Despite the energy and funds which have been expended on research, there still appears to be no true “cure” for cancer. In the area of breast cancer in its earliest stages, even the mammogram which can detect cancer in its earliest stages …
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Steven G. Ayre, MD. American Medical News, March 25, 1988 There is a discrepancy in medicine between the ideal and the real. On one hand, medicine is portrayed as the modern technological miracle. On the other – never mind cancer and AIDS – there is no cure even for the common cold. A growing sense …
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Kenneth Patchen, Staff Reporter. Lakeland Newspapers, July 31, 1997. “We need to bring human values into our science,” said Dr. Steven G. Ayre. To do this, he will soon begin a new stage of his medical practice, education, and career. Ayre, a Grayslake resident practicing at Primary Care Family Center in Antioch, has been invited by …
Steven G. Ayre MD Dr. Larry Dossey, an internist from Dallas, Texas, did a study a number of years ago that proved scientifically that people’s prayers were of measurable benefit to those prayed for. The study involved people with heart attacks who were admitted to the intensive care unit at the hospital where Dr. Dossey …
Steven G. Ayre, MD Unmanageable as the many problems besetting the medical profession are these days, there is one particularly important problem which has to do simply with the matter of nomenclature. Confucius said that the beginning of management is to call things by their proper names. Doctors, it is said, do health care. In …
Good health care is as much about things of the heart as it is about science and technology. Actually, it is more. Our answer to cancer is something we create – together. You will receive my care and encouragement in this most important goal for your life: prescribed treatments; nutrition and lifestyle counseling; teaching and …
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The appropriateness or the legality of prescribing approved drugs for uses not included in their official labeling is sometimes of concern and confusion among practitioners. Under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic (FD&C) Act, a drug approved for marketing may be labeled, promoted, and advertised by the manufacturer only for those uses which the drug’s safety and effectiveness have …
Article featured Friday, September 22, 2000 in the Downers Grove Progress By Kendra L. Williams For 15 years, the lump on Mildred Chitwood’s right breast swelled from the size of a matchstick head to the girth of a tennis ball. She knew it was cancer. A doctor had told her so Dec. 13, 1985, before recommending …
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Middendorf, Bobbye. Conscious Choice. April 2001, Vol. 14 No. 4, 28-29. “The only way to make progress against evil, be it real or simply perceived as such, to make unremitting progress in the good. There are a lot of good things. Sunrises. Loving and caring for others. Sunsets. Fast red cars. Kraft chocolate caramels. And …
The January 2005 issue of CHICAGO Magazine featured “The New Docs – How progressive MDs are using alternative techniques – from yoga, to accupuncture, to herbs – to provide better care.” – from CHICAGO Magazine, Jan 2005, p. 120 More and more doctors are including alternative therapies – such as acupuncture, yoga, and herbal treatments …
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