BACKGROUND Bronchiolitis is a common cause of hospitalization among infants. The limited effectiveness of conventional medication has prompted the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) as alternative or adjunctive therapy for the management of bronchiolitis. AIMS To determine the effectiveness and safety of CAM for the treatment of bronchiolitis in infants aged less than 2 years...

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OBJECTIVE Patients in the U.S. often turn to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and may use it concurrently with conventional medicine to treat illness and promote wellness. However, clinicians vary in their openness to the merging of treatment paradigms. Because integration of CAM with conventional medicine can have important implications for health care, we developed a survey instru...

BACKGROUND Integrative medicine is defined as relationship-centered care that focuses on the whole person, is informed by evidence, and makes use of all appropriate therapeutic approaches, healthcare professionals and disciplines to achieve optimal health and healing, including evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine. Pediatric integrative medicine (PIM) develops and promotes this...

The World Health Organization has outlined a new strategy shifting the focus of medicine from the concept of health as lack of illness to the concept of health as psycho-physical wellbeing. Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) can make a key contribution to human medicine and guarantee the wholeness, integrity and full dignity of patients in their free choice of the proper health treatm...

“Historical power inequities across professions”—this heavily laden phrase is the handiwork of a multidisciplinary set of practitioners who were convened by the Fetzer Institute in 1994 to guide communities of providers toward what they would call “relationship-centered care.”1 The 5 words are declared as the second of 2 bullets in a “knowledge” box in a chart displaying knowledge, skills, and ...

Task analytic theories of graph comprehension account for the perceptual and conceptual processes required to extract specific information from graphs. Comparatively, the processes underlying information integration have received less attention. We propose a new framework for information integration that highlights visual integration and cognitive integration. During visual integration, pattern...

device. Introduction Acute otitis media (AOM) is diagnosed frequently in early childhood; its peak incidence is between 6 and 15 months of age. (1) Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, and Moraxella catarrhalis are the leading bacterial causes. Eighty percent of AOM cases resolve without treatment within 3 days. (2)(3) This high rate of spontaneous resolution along with variations ...

CONTEXT According to the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), use of herbal supplements is increasing and will continue to rise. With parents administering medicinal herbs to children as a preventive alternative to traditional drugs, the research team thought it would be interesting to assess the use of these products during the transition into adulthood through c...

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is frequently used with patients in industrialised countries. Although the high demand for CAM and the number of CAM practitioners clearly show that CAM is very popular, there is a considerable lack of discourse and cooperation between those physicians who practise complementary medicine, those physicians who practise conventional medicine, and physi...