Use of integrative medicine (IM) is prevalent in children, yet availability of training opportunities is limited. The Pediatric Integrative Medicine in Residency (PIMR) program was designed to address this training gap. The PIMR program is a 100-hour online educational curriculum, modeled on the successful Integrative Medicine in Residency program in family medicine. Preliminary data on site ch...

Conventional evolutionary game theory predicts that natural selection favours the selfish and strong even though cooperative interactions thrive at all levels of organization in living systems. Recent investigations demonstrated that a limiting factor for the evolution of cooperative interactions is the way in which they are organized, cooperators becoming evolutionarily competitive whenever in...

conclusions jytk combined with metformin improves some antioxidant indices (sod and mda), and decreases inflammation in patients with t2dm, suggesting that it can reduce the risk of diabetic complications. results all 112 patients, including 59 in the treatment group (jytk + metformin) and 52 controls (metformin only) completed the 26-week clinical trial. jykt plus metformin treatment increased...

A comprehensive model of affect and motivation is necessary for disentangling the variance of subject specific measures into components that are (a) construct specific and generalize across different subjects, (b) subject specific and common to different constructs, and (c) specific to a particular construct in a par ticular subject. In the present study, we developed and investigated an integr...

BACKGROUND Bipolar disorder (BD) is a debilitating syndrome that is often undiagnosed and undertreated. Population surveys show that persons with BD often self-medicate with complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) or integrative therapies in spite of limited research evidence supporting their use. To date, no review has focused specifically on nonconventional treatments of BD. OBJECTIVES...

Through analyzing the academic ideas in Shanghan Zhinan written by Wei-Ju ZHU, a modern famous physician, it is pointed out that ZHU's achievement on integrative medicine has been overlooked. Taking the theory of syndrome differentiation of six channels from Shanghan Lun as an example, ZHU presumed that the essence of therapeutic theory of traditional Chinese medicine was to conform to or stren...

The article aims to present the results of study intercultural competence as a predictor effective interaction. mechanism by which this effect is achieved currently poorly understood. involved students from Russian universities (N=748) aged 18 25 years (M=20.09, SD= 1.73). 85% sample were women. following methods used: “Integrative questionnaire competence”, Scale intergroup anxiety U.The scale...