Integrative & Functional Medicine

Integrative medicine, or not integrative medicine: that is the question.

On September 26-27, 2015, the 8th European Congress for Integrative Medicine convened the Global Summit on Integrative Medicine and Healthcare in Greater Copenhagen and Helsingør, Denmark at the Culture Yard just across from Kronborg Castle, which is home to William Shakespeare's Hamlet. This article is a summary of the author's presentation about integrative medicine within the Nordic region, ...

Special Section: Integrative Medicine

The benefits of an integrated approach in the future of leprosy control in India are discussed, by involving professionals from different systems of medicine and coordinated by dermatologists working in the field of community dermatology. The low level of education amongst traditional healers has led to misdiagnosis and inappropriate treatment, thus emphasizing the importance of health educatio...

Molecular and Integrative Medicine

Special Section: Integrative Medicine

Biomedicine has not provided a complete explanation with fully effective therapies for disorders of pigmentation. Biomedicine emphasizes the role of melanocyte for protection from UV rays and as a determinant of skin colour. These important properties acquired a genetic basis much later than other functions, many relating to cell contact as in the keratinocyte – melanocyte unit, or as with the ...

Integrative Medicine for Children

Increasingly patients and their parents are tur ning t o c o m p l e m e n t a r y a n d alternative medicines (CAM). A s p a e d i a t r i c i a n s , C A M practitioners and indeed parents ourselves we need to understand these therapies to take a full medical history, considering merits and potential adverse effects of CAM, in order to offer an educated opinion to our patients. Many books exi...