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The future of AI is neuromorphic. Meet the scientists building digital ‘brains’ for your phone – Wired.co.uk

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AI services like Apples Siri and others operate by sending your queries to faraway data centers, which send back responses. The reason they rely on cloud-based computing is that todays electronics dont come with enough computing power to run the processing-heavy algorithms needed for machine learning. The typical CPUs most smartphones use could never handle a system like Siri on the device. But Dr. Chris Eliasmith, a theoretical neuroscientist and co-CEO of Canadian AI startup Applied Brain Research, is confident that a new type of chip is about to change that.

Many have suggested Moore's law is ending and that means we won't get 'more compute' cheaper using the same methods, Eliasmith says. Hes betting on the proliferation of neuromorphics a type of computer chip that is not yet widely known but already being developed by several major chip makers. What is Moore's Law? WIRED explains the theory that defined the tech industry

Traditional CPUs process instructions based on clocked time information is transmitted at regular intervals, as if managed by a metronome. By packing in digital equivalents of neurons, neuromorphics communicate in parallel (and without the rigidity of clocked time) using spikes bursts of electric current that can be sent whenever needed. Just like our own brains, the chips neurons communicate by processing incoming flows of electricity - each neuron able to determine from the incoming spike whether to send current out to the next neuron.

What makes this a big deal is that these chips require far less power to process AI algorithms. For example, one neuromorphic chip made by IBM contains five times as many transistors as a standard Intel processor, yet consumes only 70 milliwatts of power. An Intel processor would use anywhere from 35 to 140 watts, or up to 2000 times more power.

Eliasmith points out that neuromorphics arent new and that their designs have been around since the 80s. Back then, however, the designs required specific algorithms be baked directly into the chip. That meant youd need one chip for detecting motion, and a different one for detecting sound. None of the chips acted as a general processor in the way that our own cortex does.

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This was partly because there hasnt been any way for programmers to design algorithms that can do much with a general purpose chip. So even as these brain-like chips were being developed, building algorithms for them has remained a challenge.

Eliasmith and his team are keenly focused on building tools that would allow a community of programmers to deploy AI algorithms on these new cortical chips.

Central to these efforts is Nengo, a compiler that developers can use to build their own algorithms for AI applications that will operate on general purpose neuromorphic hardware. Compilers are a software tool that programmers use to write code, and that translate that code into the complex instructions that get hardware to actually do something. What makes Nengo useful is its use of the familiar Python programming language known for its intuitive syntax and its ability to put the algorithms on many different hardware platforms, including neuromorphic chips. Pretty soon, anyone with an understanding of Python could be building sophisticated neural nets made for neuromorphic hardware.

Things like vision systems, speech systems, motion control, and adaptive robotic controllers have already been built with Nengo, Peter Suma, a trained computer scientist and the other CEO of Applied Brain Research, tells me.

Perhaps the most impressive system built using the compiler is Spaun, a project that in 2012 earned international praise for being the most complex brain model ever simulated on a computer. Spaun demonstrated that computers could be made to interact fluidly with the environment, and perform human-like cognitive tasks like recognizing images and controlling a robot arm that writes down what its sees. The machine wasnt perfect, but it was a stunning demonstration that computers could one day blur the line between human and machine cognition. Recently, by using neuromorphics, most of Spaun has been run 9000x faster, using less energy than it would on conventional CPUs and by the end of 2017, all of Spaun will be running on Neuromorphic hardware.

Eliasmith won NSERCs John C. Polyani award for that project Canadas highest recognition for a breakthrough scientific achievement and once Suma came across the research, the pair joined forces to commercialize these tools.

While Spaun shows us a way towards one day building fluidly intelligent reasoning systems, in the nearer term neuromorphics will enable many types of context aware AIs, says Suma. Suma points out that while todays AIs like Siri remain offline until explicitly called into action, well soon have artificial agents that are always on and ever-present in our lives.

Imagine a SIRI that listens and sees all of your conversations and interactions. Youll be able to ask it for things like - "Who did I have that conversation about doing the launch for our new product in Tokyo?" or "What was that idea for my wife's birthday gift that Melissa suggested?, he says.

When I raised concerns that some company might then have an uninterrupted window into even the most intimate parts of my life, Im reminded that because the AI would be processed locally on the device, theres no need for that information to touch a server owned by a big company. And for Eliasmith, this always on component is a necessary step towards true machine cognition. The most fundamental difference between most available AI systems of today and the biological intelligent systems we are used to, is the fact that the latter always operate in real-time. Bodies and brains are built to work with the physics of the world, he says.

Already, major efforts across the IT industry are heating up to get their AI services into the hands of users. Companies like Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and even Samsung, are developing conversational assistants they hope will one day become digital helpers.

With the rise of neuromorphics, and tools like Nengo, we could soon have AIs capable of exhibiting a stunning level of natural intelligence right on our phones.

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Artificial intelligence experts unveil Baxter the robot – who you control with your MIND – Express.co.uk

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The incredible work undertaken by Artificial Intelligence geniuses has been backed by private funding from Boeing and the US National Science Foundation.

A team from MITs Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Boston University that allows people to correct robot mistakes instantly with nothing more than their brains.

Using data from an electroencephalography (EEG) monitor that records brain activity, the system can detect if a person notices an error as a robot performs an object-sorting task.

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Imagine being able to instantaneously tell a robot to do a certain action, without needing to type a command, push a button or even say a word

CSAIL director Daniela Rus

The teams novel machine-learning algorithms enable the system to classify brain waves in the space of 10 to 30 milliseconds.

While the system currently handles relatively simple binary-choice activities, the studys senior author says that the work suggests that we could one day control robots in much more intuitive ways.

CSAIL director Daniela Rus told Express.co.uk: Imagine being able to instantaneously tell a robot to do a certain action, without needing to type a command, push a button or even say a word.

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A streamlined approach like that would improve our abilities to supervise factory robots, driverless cars and other technologies we havent even invented yet.

In the current study the team used a humanoid robot named Baxter from Rethink Robotics, the company led by former CSAIL director and iRobot co-founder Rodney Brooks.

The paper presenting the work was written by BU PhD candidate Andres F. Salazar-Gomez, CSAIL PhD candidate Joseph DelPreto, and CSAIL research scientist Stephanie Gil under the supervision of Rus and BU professor Frank H. Guenther.

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The paper was recently accepted to the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) taking place in Singapore this May.

Past work in EEG-controlled robotics has required training humans to think in a prescribed way that computers can recognise.

Rus team wanted to make the experience more natural and to do that, they focused on brain signals called error-related potentials (ErrPs), which are generated whenever our brains notice a mistake.

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As the robot indicates which choice it plans to make, the system uses ErrPs to determine if the human agrees with the decision.

Rus added: As you watch the robot, all you have to do is mentally agree or disagree with what it is doing.

You dont have to train yourself to think in a certain way - the machine adapts to you, and not the other way around.

The work in progress identified that ErrP signals are extremely faint, which means that the system has to be fine-tuned enough to both classify the signal and incorporate it into the feedback loop for the human operator.

In addition to monitoring the initial ErrPs, the team also sought to detect secondary errors that occur when the system doesnt notice the humans original correction.

Scientist Stephanie Gil said: If the robots not sure about its decision, it can trigger a human response to get a more accurate answer.

These signals can dramatically improve accuracy, creating a continuous dialogue between human and robot in communicating their choices.

While the system cannot yet recognise secondary errors in real time, Gil expects the model to be able to improve to upwards of 90 per cent accuracy once it can.

In addition, since ErrP signals have been shown to be proportional to how egregious the robots mistake is, the team believes that future systems could extend to more complex multiple-choice tasks.

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Salazar-Gomez notes that the system could even be useful for people who cant communicate verbally: a task like spelling could be accomplished via a series of several discrete binary choices, which he likens to an advanced form of the blinking that allowed stroke victim Jean-Dominique Bauby to write his memoir The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

Wolfram Burgard a professor of computer science at the University of Freiburg who was not involved in the research added: This work brings us closer to developing effective tools for brain-controlled robots and prostheses.

Given how difficult it can be to translate human language into a meaningful signal for robots, work in this area could have a truly profound impact on the future of human-robot collaboration."

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Google’s artificial intelligence can diagnose cancer faster than human doctors – Mirror.co.uk

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Making the decision on whether or not a patient has cancer usually involves trained professionals meticulously scanning tissue samples over weeks and months.

But Google's artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputer DeepMind may be able to do it much, much faster.

The search company has been working with the NHS since September last year to help speed up cancer detection. The software can now tell the difference between healthy and cancerous tissue, as well as discover if metastasis has occured.

"Metastasis detection is currently performed by pathologists reviewing large expanses of biological tissues. This process is labour intensive and error-prone," explained Google in a white paper outlining the study.

"We present a framework to automatically detect and localise tumours as small as 100 100 pixels in gigapixel microscopy images sized 100,000100,000 pixels.

"Our method leverages a convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture and obtains state-of-the-art results on the Camelyon16 dataset in the challenging lesion-level tumour detection task."

Such high-level image recognition was first developed for Google's driverless car programme, in order to help the vehicles scan for road obstructions.

Now the company has adapted it for the medical field and says it's more accurate than regular human doctors:

"At 8 false positives per image, we detect 92.4% of the tumours, relative to 82.7% by the previous best automated approach. For comparison, a human pathologist attempting exhaustive search achieved 73.2% sensitivity."

Despite this, it's unlikely to replace human pathologists just yet. The software only looks for one thing - cancerous tissue - and is not able to pick up any irregularities that a human doctor could spot.

In order to perfect the study, Google was given access to 20 MRI and CT scans of 20 anonymous patients.

DeepMinds Mustafa Suleyman said: This real-world application of artificial intelligence technology is exactly why we set up DeepMind.

"We hope this work could lead to real benefits for cancer patients across the country.

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Why You Should Let Artificial Intelligence Creep Into Your Business – Inc.com

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Signpost is a service that lets brick-and-mortar store owners publish incentives and promotions on its website. Last summer, the New York City-based company's founder and CEO, Stuart Wall, created a new app: the A.I.-centric Mia. Through its natural language generation capability, Mia crafts messages and sends them to prospects at opportune times. It tracks and analyzes a store's calls, emails, and credit card swipes, and then makes what it decides is the right pitch. "New customers often tell me they show up because of our five-star reviews, which I hear about through Mia," says Randy Jewart, owner of Resolution Gardens, a landscaping company in Austin, and a Mia subscriber. People contact small businesses to learn about products and services, Wall notes, "so why waste this valuable data that A.I. can use to market to them?"

Unlike traditional computing, which delivers precise solutions within defined parameters, A.I.--sometimes referred to as cognitive computing--teaches itself how to solve problems. "Instead of delivering only specificity, A.I.-centric programming generates millions of solutions, evaluating each for efficacy and then choosing the most viable and optimal ones," says Amir Husain, CEO and founder of Austin-based SparkCognition, which serves financial, aerospace, energy, and utility enterprises. If A.I. applications seem to be doing the thinking for you, they are.

Manually finding your target customer--by searching and poring through income-level, interest-based, and geographical data--is labor-intensive and time-consuming. A.I. cuts to the chase. "For example, using a feed of three key pieces of information that the entrepreneur provides--a brief product-description text, images, and a price range--an A.I. system can zip through social media and other online outlets, looking for correlations between product and digital conversations," says Husain, author of The Sentient Machine, to be published this year. A.I. also finds the targets' contact information.

If you give it the green light, A.I.'s natural language processing technology then writes and sends a sales pitch, notes transmission time, and analyzes feedback. "You can almost hear an A.I. system going, 'Aha! I've cracked the code,' " says Husain, adding that A.I. constantly optimizes itself by making slight changes to the message.

One key reason for A.I.'s upsurge is entrepreneurs' free or inexpensive access to libraries such as IBM Watson, Google TensorFlow, and Microsoft Azure. These application programming interfaces (APIs) allow coders to build A.I. apps without starting from scratch. Enterprise-focused A.I. companies are catering to all aspects of entrepreneurship. Last year Koru, in Seattle, launched Koru Hire, predictive hiring software that uses A.I. to match job applicants' skills and experience with profiles of a company's best current and past employees. It generates a "fit score" that indicates whether a candidate might replicate those successes. And in San Francisco, the Grid launched A.I.-centric website-design software. It analyzes the intended content--text and images--which it separates into components, creating an array of options so the user can "build" the site in minutes. The program then interacts with the user to modify layout, color, and typography. Husain expects to see a proliferation of A.I.-centric marketing, sales, and other service startups focused on small and medium-size businesses. On tap for this summer: Cinch, from Cinch Financial, in Boston, which uses A.I. to analyze personal money data and recommends financial strategies, along with behavioral changes and new products that coincide with those behaviors.

The biggest misconception about A.I. is that it's robots with human faces sitting at remote desks. "A.I. is nothing more than an add-on technology--spice and flair--to an otherwise conventional system, such as a traditional travel-reservation site that, because of A.I., can now converse with a human," says Bruce W. Porter, an A.I. researcher and computer science professor at the University of Texas, Austin. Porter emphasizes that future breakthroughs will not be 100 percent A.I. "A.I. will likely provide a 10 percent product- or service-performance boost," he says. That is, in fact, huge. Firms that fail to make the A.I. leap, he says, may fail to have customers.

Not all searches are as simple as typing a few keywords and having Google take over. Entrepreneurs often need more in-depth and complicated excavations--for patent and trademark data, for example--and that, in turn, involves an often hefty legal budget to pay a highly trained human to do. Porter foresees within five years many companies offering services to consumers who have no expertise in A.I. or specific knowledge fields. They'll be able to conduct their own A.I.-based data retrieval. Count on industry disruption, he says, as this type of A.I. application will leapfrog current data-retrieval-service providers.

Because it's able to generate natural language, A.I. is an exceptional tool for helping entrepreneurs assemble contracts, as opposed to buying them off the shelf at, say, LegalZoom. A.I. applications will converse with--by text and, ultimately, voice--and tease information out of humans that will become components of formal agreements, such as details about fee payments and product returns. Porter anticipates users will pay to access cloud-based A.I. computer systems to produce such documents: "A.I.-centric startups, because they don't require a human in the loop and won't need to hire staffers, can offer their services at a very low cost, especially given an anticipated large volume of customers and business competition."

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Good, Bad & Ugly! Artificial Intelligence for Humans is All of This & More – Entrepreneur

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Even though artificial intelligence may have positive effects, why create it if it has the potential to backfire. Many big tech companies are increasingly adopting artificial intelligence to make their businesses more efficient. In January 2015, Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, and dozens of artificial intelligence experts signed an open letter on artificial intelligence calling for research on the societal impacts of AI. Artificial Intelligence, chatbots, self driving cars and robots often seem like a part of science fiction movies, but in reality, they have already started affecting our daily lives. For example, companies like Wipro and Infosys are deploying AI platform to do the job of engineers.

There are always good and bad sides to every new technology and AI is no exception to this condition. Given below are three examples of the good, the bad and the ugly of Artificial Intelligence.

When Siri Failed to Understand Typical Accents

When Apple released its digital AI assistant, Siri, in October 2011, iPhone users had a lot of expectations with the new bot. Yet despite its growing popularity, Siri was often criticized for its problems and technical glitches. Siri has not been well received by some English speakers with distinctive accents. The personal assistants lack of understanding different accents clearly depicts the restrictions of present AI technology.Today artificial intelligence cant understand changing needs of humans, how will they control our lives then?

Microsoft AI Chatbot Tays Disastrous Debut:

Tay, an artificial intelligence chatbot that was originally released by Microsoft Corporation via Twitter on March 23, 2016.It caused subsequent controversy when the bot began to post inflammatory and offensive tweets through its Twitter account, forcing Microsoft to shut down the service only 16 hours after its launch. According to the company, this error was caused by trolls who "attacked" the service as the bot made replies based on its interactions with people on Twitter.

Shopping via Voice with Amazons Alexa:

Amazon Alexa seemed to be the star last year as Alexa devices topped Amazon's best-seller list last year. Alexa is an intelligent personal assistant developed by Amazon Lab126, made popular by the Amazon Echo. It is capable of voice interaction, music playback, making to-do lists, setting alarms, streaming podcasts, playing audiobooks, and providing weather, traffic, and other real-time information. Alexa can also control several smart devices using itself as a home automation hub.

Currently, interaction and communication with Alexa are only available in English and German. What sets apart Alexa from other AI assistants is its personal shopping feature. The device is directly linked to the e-commerce website catalog, which allows customers to order products through voice purchasing option.

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Budget 2017: Prizes for robotics, artificial intelligence and battery innovators to be announced – The Independent

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The Chancellor Philip Hammond will outline plans in Wednesdays Budget to make hundreds of millions of pounds available to scientists and researchers to develop solutions to hi-tech challenges including artificial intelligence and robotics, next generation batteries and new techniques for manufacturing medicines.

The Chancellor will also set out out further details on making sure the UK is at the leading edge of 5G mobile phone technology.

Mr Hammondis expected to allocate more than 500 million from the National Productivity Investment Fund (NPIF), which was created in last years autumn statement to help innovative UK companies lead the way in the new technologies set to transform the world.

270 million will be earmarked for British businesses and universities to meet specific challenges with huge potential, which will include the use of robots to work in nuclear and offshore power generation, space and deep mining. There will also be cash set aside for companies developing the kind of batteries that will unlock the potential of electric cars.

The National Productivity Investment Fund is already working to upgrade the countrys mobile and broadband network, and the budget will outline the UKs first 5G strategy, including trials spread across leading research institutions. 5G will be significantly faster than current 4G networks. It also has implications for health, with companies developing wearable sensors that can foresee and warn of an imminent stroke or heart attack.

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Facebook Uses Artificial Intelligence to Spot Potentially Suicidal Users – Heat Street

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Facebook has started using a new artificial intelligence (AI) system to identify users showing warning signs of suicide.

The AI has been trained to spot status updates and subsequent comments that could indicate someone was at risk.

The algorithm would immediately send a report to a real reviewer, who could then contact the user with suggestions and resources to help if appropriate. At the moment, Facebook relies on a human reporting system regarding potential suicides, where friends of users can click a button to tell the company about concerning updates.

But it is hoped more people will be helped by an automated system. The AI will look out for statuses that suggest the user is sad or in pain, as well as responses from friends expressing concern.

Facebook is also adding suicide prevention tools to Facebook Live after several deaths have been broadcast since the feature was introduced. This would give viewers the option to report a friend if they are concerned, and gives the reporter resources to help.

The broadcaster at risk will also be given the option to contact a friend, mental health helpline or see tips.

At the moment, this is only being testedin the United States.

This article was originally published at the news.com.au

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Alternative medicine grows in Sugar Land, Missouri City – Community Impact Newspaper

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No longer a niche of the West Coast, holistic and alternative medicine and therapy providers have become a sizable presence in the Sugar Land and Missouri City area.

Nearly a third of U.S. adults have tried some type of nontraditional medicine or therapy, according to the National Institutes of Health.

[Clients] want to avoid surgery, Lonestar Cryotherapy owner Robert Garza said. They want to avoid a lot of medications; they want to do something as holistically as possible.

His Sugar Land practice uses intense cold to ease muscle pains. Reasons vary for why people seek complementary, alternative and holistic treatments although pain management is a common motivation according to NIHs National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health.

I do think people like alternative medicine because it has fast results and more visible results, said Erika Yigzaw, chief strategy officer for the American College of Healthcare Sciences.

The NCCIH defines complementary medicine as a nonmainstream practice used in conjunction with conventional medicine. Complementary medicine usually falls into the subgroups of natural products or mind and body practices. By comparison, alternative medicine is a nonmainstream practice used in place of conventional medicine. NCCIH does not classify treatments as being specifically complementary or alternative.

Complementary and alternative medicine, or CAM, can include chiropractors, dietary supplements, reflexology, yoga and aromatherapy, to name a few, according to the NCCIH.

A 2016 report by market research provider IBISWorld cited an aging population, a greater awareness of health and wellness spurred by the Affordable Care Act and increasing disposable incomes as reasons for the demand for these treatments.

The report also suggests that people without coverage also turn to CAM because it can be cost-effective and more accessible.

In Sugar Land and Missouri City, the population age 60 and older rose by 6 percent and by 7.8 percent, respectively, between 2009 and 2015. From 2010 to 2015, median household incomes rose by 3.3 percent in Sugar Land and by 7.5 percent in Missouri City, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Between 2010 and 2015, the median household income in Sugar Land rose from $101,611 to $104,939. During that time in Missouri City, the median household income rose from $81,854 to $87,955, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

The NCCIH conducts a survey of complementary or alternative medicine usage every five years.

IBISWorld and the NCCIH have each noted a correlation between spending on nontraditional medical providers and higher than average incomes.

In 2012, an estimated $30.2 billionabout 1 percent of all U.S. health care spending that yearwas spent on out-of-pocket alternative medicine costs, according to the survey. Results from that year are still being analyzed, an NCCIH spokesperson said.

Community Impact Newspaper reported at least 10 such new businesses in 2016 compared to at least six the previous year.

Complementary and alternative regulations vary nationwide, and different Texas agencies license and certify some health care professionals but not all. Texas Medical Board spokesperson Jarrett Schneider said his office only licenses physicians and specific positions but does not inspect the facilities of alternative medical providers unless prompted by consumers.

Were complaint-driven, primarily, he said.

Chiropractors and acupuncturists have their own state boards rather than the state medical board or the Department of State Health Services. The TMB and the department said they were unaware of specific regulations for opening a complementary or alternative medical business in Texas, but Theresa Buede, owner of ReConnect Chiropractic and Holistic Center in Missouri City, said she followed standard city health codes to open her business in March 2016.

Im a big advocate of partneringnot eliminatingwith conventional medicine, she said.

In the last three years, new complementary and alternative medical businesses that opened in Sugar Land and Missouri City ranged from Indian herbal medicine and yoga therapy to halotherapy, which allows customers to sit in rooms ventilated with salt-infused air to help respiratory illnesses and skin conditions, such as dermatitis and eczema.

Garza and Sandy Hinderliter, owner of Salt of the Earth halotherapy, do not take insurance because carriers do not cover their services.

Hinderliter said she chose Sugar Land for her practice to because it was close to home and close to customers from Katy and Houston as well as locals.

Obviously, people have their own personal reasons but maybe feel like they didnt get the quality of life they wanted with taking the medications, she said of her clientele.

Ayush Wave Ayurveda Wellness and Yoga opened in Sugar Land in July. Owner Shwetha Reddy, who earned degrees in ayurveda and pharmacology in India and the U.K., said she chose Sugar Land because the southwest Houston region had a growing demand for the ancient Indian system of full-body healing methods.

Garza must be certified by the manufacturer of his businesss cryotherapy tank, which uses extreme cold on the whole body or in localized places. The treatment is popular with athletes.

Some clients are referred from doctors, like [the Sugar Land Skeeters] players, and some are coming on their own, he said. Its become more prevalent in Houston over the last year.

Similar to Hinderliter, Buede said she chose to open her practice close to home. She pursued a holistic healing career after battling cancer for 13 years until 2011. Her treatments include an infrared sauna, massage therapy and a saltwater flotation tank for sensory deprivationmeant to relax and detoxify the body.

My focus here, everything here is to identify and noninvasively treat toxic buildup [in the body], she said. Buede only accepts it for some services.

A physically active and health-conscious population in Fort Bend County motivated Garza and Alvaro Medina to open their respective practices in Sugar Land.

Medina owns Medina Chiropractic Sports and Spine, he said. His student-athlete days inspired him to become a chiropractor, and Medina opened his practice last April and accepts insurance for all treatments.

He is licensed by the Texas Board of Chiropractic Examiners and inspected by the state for use of X-ray technology.

We can neither prescribe nor take patients off medication, he said. That is out of scope for us.

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Dog show win for Rumor is a win for food supplement company – Channel3000.com – WISC-TV3

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PRAIRIE DU SAC, Wis. - A business that had been steadily growing over the years has seen a spike in sales after a recent dog show.

The Doctors Choice Supplements is the provider of a dog food supplement for Rumor, the winner of this years Westminster Dog Show.

Probably 20 to 25 percent busier, and I think this is just the tip of the iceberg, says Karen Duhr, warehouse and office manager for Doctors Choice Supplements.

The company has been providing Fido-Vite supplements to Kenlyn Kennels for several years. Kenlyn, an Edgerton kennel, is the owner of Rumor, a female German shepherd.

When it got down to the finals, I was thinking she cant lose, she cant lose. Then, all of a sudden when she won, Im like, I cant believe she won, says Jon Sawle, a part owner of Doctors Choice Supplements.

While the employees of the Prairie du Sac company celebrated Rumors win, they realize they are just one part of what went into the success.

You know, were just one brick in the wall, but you know youve got to have all those bricks to make the wall, says Sawle.

The Fido-VIte supplements provide a probiotic and enzyme that improves the health and appearance of a dog.

It helps the food work better, helps the overall digestion and then they absorb more nutrients from their dog food, says Sawle.

While the increase in sales is welcomed at Doctors Choice Supplements, they joke it has made for more work for the UPS drivers.

Yeah, especially on Mondays, I feel a little sorry for the UPS man, says Sawle.

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