Prospective Meta-Analysis Within Complementary Medicine 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...

Complementary Medicine Research in NSW

Medicalization of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: a Historical-Critical Analysis

Medicalization, in the sense of expansion of medicine in different aspects of human life and ultimately the transformation of medicine into a tool of social control and domination, is a common interpenetration in the literature. This concept, since its inception in the mid-twentieth century, has been an exclusive critique of modern medicine, meaning that branch of medicine based on biomedical p...

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...

Translational Research in Complementary and Alternative Medicine

1 Cancer Epidemiology, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA 2UNC Nutrition Research Institute, University of North Carolina Schools of Medicine and Public Health, North Carolina Research Campus, Kannapolis, NC 28081, USA 3 School of Chinese Medicine, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong 4 Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for...