BACKGROUND Despite the paucity of scientific evidence, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is widely used for the prevention and treatment of illness, holistic care, and counteracting the adverse effects of conventional medicine (CM). This study investigates the use of CAM by patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) on haemodialysis. METHODS This quantitative study was conducted ...

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...

Chronic pain can be a frustrating condition for patient and clinician. The integrative medicine approach to pain can offer hope, adding safe complementary and alternative medical (CAM) therapies to mitigate pain and suffering. Such CAM therapies include nutrition, supplements and herbs, manual medicine, acupuncture, yoga, and mind-body approaches. The evidence is heterogeneous regarding these a...

Purpose The National Cancer Institute (NCI) supports a Cancer Centers Program (CCP) including 66 NCI-designated cancer centers. Several CCPs have associations with Integrative Medicine Programs (IMPs). However, limited information is available regarding cancer-CAM research and collaborations between them. An inventory by NCI’s Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine (OCCAM) was ...

Data were gathered from 423 osteopathic primary care physicians who are members of the Michigan Osteopathic Association, assessing their attitudes and practices regarding complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Family physicians and general internists were more likely than pediatricians to talk to their patients about CAM. Similarly, female physicians were more likely than male physicians...

i r t u m o w e r s w fi c a H o t a c he Cochrane Complementary Medicine Field is the group within the Cochrane Collaboration focused on facilitating the conduct f Cochrane systematic reviews of CAM herapies. The CAM Field represents an inernational collaborative effort among reearchers, clinicians, consumers, and CAM ractitioners from nearly every continent. he Field’s central office is locat...

The study assessed: (1) the prevalence of exclusive use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), exclusive use of modern medicine and combined use; (2) the factors associated with exclusive CAM use; and (3) the expenditure for CAM use among type-2 diabetes patients in rural Kerala. We surveyed 400 diabetes patients selected by multi-stage cluster sampling. Exclusive CAM use was reported...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To describe oncology nurses' experiences with patients communicating interest in or use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies along with oncology nurses' CAM resources and educational interests. DESIGN National mailed survey. SETTING A national medical center and research institute. SAMPLE A random sample of 850 Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) members...

Most complementary medicine is distinguished by not being supported by underlying theory accepted by Western science. However, for those who accept their validity, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) modalities offer clues to understanding physiology and medicine more deeply. Ayurveda and vibrational medicine are stimulating new approaches to biological regulation. The new biophysics c...