OBJECTIVE The study examined the relationship between mental disorders and the use of complementary and alternative medicine. METHOD Data from a national household telephone survey conducted in 1997-1998 (N=9,585) were used to examine the relationships between use of complementary and alternative medicine during the past 12 months and several demographic variables and indicators of mental dis...

A number of health-related interventions--from widespread therapies such as acupuncture, herbal medicine, homeopathy and yoga, to less well-known modalities such as Feldenkrais, iridology, reflexology and reiki--have increasingly come under the general heading of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). A few, such as biofeedback, chiropractic and physical therapy, are considered conventio...

Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, University of Sydney, NSW. Ian H Kerridge, BMed(Hons), MPhil, FRACP, FRCPA, Associate Professor of Bioethics, and Director; John R McPhee, BCom(Hons)(LegStud), Honorary Associate in Health Law. Reprints will not be available from the authors. Correspondence: Associate Professor Ian H Kerridge, Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, ...

Infertility is one of the most important reproductive health concerns in the conventional medicine. Iranian traditional medicine presents different viewpoints in this regard which they could be of benefit and a good guide for the society of medicine. This study sought to provide the comprehensive investigation on the causes of infertility according to Iranian traditional medicine for understand...

best conceptual frameworks and most practical clinical approaches in integrative medicine reflects important unresolved philosophical problems about the nature of health and illness. It is only through the analysis of philosophical problems related to observation, evidence, and causality in medicine that development of a rigorous methodology for clinical integrative medicine will evolve. This 4...

BACKGROUND There is an increasing need for a worldwide professional integration of conventional medicine and traditional/complementary whole medical systems (WMSs). However, the integration is perceived by conventional medicine as problematic or unacceptable, because of a supposed lack of evidence for specific effects of WMSs therapies and supposed prescientific or unscientific paradigms of WMS...