The Future of Complementary and Integrative Medicine Research - International Perspectives

The future of complementary and integrative medicine research - international perspectives.

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...

Pnm-18: Complementary and Integrative Medicine And Pregnancy

Background Many couples have difficulty in getting pregnant, and turn to a variety of treatments to help them conceive. Allopathic, or conventional, methods to help with infertility are often expensive and risky. There are many things a woman can do to increase the chances of conceiving and having a healthy pregnancy with alternative forms of medicine. Integrative medicine with complementary tr...

Research into complementary medicine: some future challenges.

Integrative Medicine, the Medicine of the Future

Integrative medicine got a boost of greater public awareness and funding after a landmark 1993 study. That study showed that one in three Americans had used an alternative therapy, often under the medical radar. Proponents prefer the term Integrative Medicine or complementary to emphasize that such treatments are used with mainstream medicine, not as replacements or alternatives. Integrative me...

Founding the International Society of Complementary Medicine Research

© Oxford University Press 2004 *President, ISCMR, E-mail: [email protected] 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...