Top Harley Street Doctor Joins Naas Clinic
By Sylvia pownall
A top doctor from london’s harley street has joined the team at a Naas clinic to help meet demand for a new cancer screening service which is the first of its kind in Ireland.
Dr Harald C Gaier will practise three days a week at the Irish Centre of Integrated Medicine on Pacelli Road, Naas, to assist with two of its most successful treatments – medical thermography and live blood analysis.
Dr Gaier has held the position of director of Medical Research at two major clinics in London, the Hale Clinic and the Diagnostic Clinic, and is one of the world’s leading authorities on homeopathy and non-orthodox medicine.
“It’s a fixed arrangement and it suits me very well,” said Dr Gaier, who is a registered homeopath, osteopath, herbalist, acupuncturist and naturopath. “It will keep me very busy, but I’m happy to be working here because they are genuinely passionate about what they do.”
Having written the Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Homeopathy for Harper Collins and numerous papers for a variety of scientific journals, Gaier’s name is synonymous with modern contemporary medicine.
“I always like to see success and they do it with such care and devotion so it’s lovely to be a part of that,” he remarked of the centre’s directors, Felipe Reitz and Jean FitzGerald.
“I’ve taken some of the workload so hopefully that will make a difference. It was needed to cope with demand which has been phenomenal.”
Felipe said it was a further endorsement of the clinic’s pioneering work to have such a respected figure associated with ICIM. “This is a very important medical and health gain to County Kildare,” he added.
Medical thermography, which uses infra-red imaging to detect the increase in heat produced by cancerous tumours, is already widely used in America and across Europe and can play a vital role in early detection of all forms of cancer.
Specialised infra-red cameras photograph the breast, or other soft tissues in any area of concern, and there are no risks or side effects associated with the non-contact procedure.
Thermography is especially useful in detecting breast cancer, long before it would show up on a mammogram, since it spots metabolic changes within the breast tissue itself which suggest the beginnings of a possible tumour.
Cells can begin to turn cancerous long before they turn malignant, the increased blood supply causing abnormal heat activity which a specialised infrared camera can detect at up to 0.001 degrees.
Thermography has been given a cautious welcome by Dr James Geraghty, one of the leading oncologists and breast cancer specialists in Ireland. He said if used in tandem with traditional methods it can help with early detection of cancer.
The service is fully booked weeks in advance, as is the centre’s live blood analysis which is invaluable in the early detection of serious health conditions by using a high definition microscope and state-of-the-art computer technology to analyse just on drop of a patient’s blood.
You can contact the Irish Centre of Integrated Medicine at 045-844819 or log on to http://www.icim.ie/.
Tags: Blood Analysis, Dr. Gaier, Thermography
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