Complementary medicine. BMA pushes for more research.

Complementary Medicine Research Unit

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...

Developing CAM Research Capacity for Complementary Medicine

This article describes initiatives that have been central to the development of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) research capacity in the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States over the last decade. While education and service delivery are essential parts of the development of CAM, this article will focus solely on the development of research strategy. The development of CAM r...

Complementary Medicine Research in NSW

Conventional medicine and complementary medicine: more similarities than contradictions

Ilkka Tuomi said that is impossible to divide knowledge into two clearly separated fields, one for expressed knowledge and the other for unexpressed knowledge [1] and this concept leads us to consider that the differences between Complementary Medicines (CAM) and Conventional Medicine (CM) are often mistakenly given as true, so we will deepen this theme searching for common elements between CM ...

Progress in Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research

Integrative Medicine at Yale and the Yale Center for Continuing Medical Education (CME) sponsored the Yale Research Symposium on Complementary and Integrative Medicine in March 2010 at the university's School of Medicine. Delivering the keynote address, Dr. Josephine P. Briggs, Director of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) at the National Institutes of Healt...