The ethics of complementary therapy research recruitment: a case study We suggest that physicians responsible for the clinical care of their patients have a moral and ethical duty to thoughtfully consider recruitment to appropriately approved, funded, and peer reviewed research that may possibly help the people for whom they are responsible. This facilitates the sustained development of evidenc...

1Center for Translational Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People’s Hospital, Shanghai 200233, China 2Cancer Epidemiology, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA 3School of Chinese Medicine, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong 4Faculty of Pharmacy, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia 5The National Institute of Complementar...

© Oxford University Press 2004 *President, ISCMR, E-mail: mverhoef@ucalgary.ca On November 22, 2003, delegates of the 10th Annual Symposium on Complementary Healthcare packed into the main lecture hall of the Royal College of Physicians in London to take a momentous step in the history of complementary medicine research. Sara Warber (USA) and Edzard Ernst (UK) chaired the meeting and began by i...

Contemporary Western medicine has witnessed a fragmentation of our conceptualization of the medical endeavor into 'traditional medicine' and 'non-traditional medicine'. The former is meant to refer to the Western medical tradition, the latter encompasses both 'complementary' and 'alternative' medical practices. Complementary medicine complements conventional medical treatments, and alternative ...

The use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has grown dramatically in recent years, as has research into the safety and efficacy of CAM treatments. Minimal attention, however, has been given to the ethical issues relating to research on CAM. The needs of public health and safety demand rigorous research evaluating CAM therapies, adhering to the same ethical requirements applied to a...

The identification of the factors that condition a software programmer’s productivity remains a key challenge for both scholars and practitioners. While a number of studies have focused on the impact of one or a few particular factors, the way these factors jointly condition programmer productivity is still unknown. This paper presents a conceptual model aimed at a comprehensive understanding o...

rently, there are about 57,500 CAM trials from all over the world registered in the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials and about 690 systematic CAM reviews in the Cochrane Database. Berman presented a few examples of systematic CAM reviews before concluding with future challenges, such as conducting reliable subgroup analyses (e.g., individual patient data meta-analysis or network m...

during the past decade in iran, information technology (it) has had a deep impact on economy. many companies have invested on it and it’s complementary. despite a vast percentage of firm’s budget is spent on it continues increasingly, there are evidence which has been illustrate on failure of firms in obtaining the benefits of these expenditures within expected period. this fact nevertheless ha...

background and objectives: food insecurity may be associated with poor nutrition, which in turn can increase the risk of adverse nutrition and health outcomes among infants and toddlers. this study was undertaken in 2008 to gain an insight of mothers' views on complementary feeding practices and food security. materials and methods: in this qualitative study, data were collected through 10...