INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE The following Coverage Policy applies to health benefit plans administered by Cigna Companies. Certain Cigna Companies and/or lines of business only provide utilization review services to clients and do not make coverage determinations. References to standard benefit plan language and coverage determinations do not apply to those clients. Coverage Policies are intended to p...

One in ten of the UK population use complementary medicine each year and 50% are lifetime users. The recent House of Lords’ Report has clearly defined a public need for further research into both safety and efficacy. The Department of Health research capacity building initiative is one of the first main responses to the Select Committee’s recommendations. We know that within this emerging field...

Background: The increasing attention and trend towards complementary and alternative medicine and the usage of such treatments in different nations has highlighted the need for their insertion into the medical curriculum from the basic and clinical sciences courses up to in Continued Medical Education (CME) programs. The familiarity of physicians with complementary therapies is of great importa...

Komplementarna i alternativna medicina (KAM) obuhvataju veći broj međusobno različitih dijagnostičkih i terapijskih postupaka i upotrebu različitih prirodnih produkata koji se koriste u svrhu ozdravljenja ili isceljenja obolelih, a koji se uobičajeno ne primenjuju od strane medicinskih stručnjaka 1, . Zvanična medicinska nauka odbacuje većinu postupaka KAM kao paramedicinske, dok u odgovarajućo...