BACKGROUND Today there is an agreement on how patients should be counseled regarding integrative medicine in oncology. In order to better meet the patients' demands, we investigated additional beliefs and wishes related to these topics. PATIENTS AND METHODS Patients in 2 locations were asked to complete an assessment form regarding their wishes in relation to counseling on integrative medicin...

A large amount of studies show that real-world study has strong external validity than the traditional randomized controlled trials and can evaluate the effect of interventions in a real clinical setting, which open up a new path for researches of integrative medicine in coronary heart disease. However, clinical data of integrative medicine in coronary heart disease are large in amount and comp...

Methods A draft measure was developed based on an in-depth literature review of the concept of human warmth by a multidisciplinary expert group working in integrative medicine. Sixteen cognitive probing interviews were conducted to examine how patients from integrative and conventional medicine perceive and interpret this new measure and to identify potential problems. A content analysis of the...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight the partial results of the first project on Integrative Oncology in Brazil, which is being put into practice at the Clinics Hospital of the University of Campinas (HC/Unicamp). The majority of the Brazilian population uses the public National Health System (SUS) and one of its units, the National Institute for Cancer (INCA), administers cancer t...

Tumor is defined as a kind of chronic diseases by the World Health Organization. The integrative traditional Chinese and western medicine works well on treatment tumors, even in advanced patients or with recurring metastatic tumor. However, pathogenic mechanism tumors still unclear. Therefore, based 19th pathogenesis Yellow Emperor's Internal Class that "Diseases producing liquid clear chill al...

management This conference report was provided by Aditi Nerurkar, MD, MPH, an integrative medicine physician at Harvard Medical School and the medical director of the Cheng-Tsui Integrated Health Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts. She specializes in mind-body medicine, stress management, and lifestyle medicine. She is also a contributor to The Atlantic and Th...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Six family medicine residency programs in the United States collaborated on the development and implementation of an integrative family medicine (IFM) program, which is a postgraduate training model that combines family medicine residency training with an integrative medicine fellowship. This paper reports on effects of IFM on residency programs and clinical systems in...

During 2012, the USDHHS’s Health Resources and Services Administration funded 12 accredited preventive medicine residencies to incorporate an evidence-based integrative medicine curriculum into their training programs. It also funded a national coordinating center at the American College of Preventive Medicine, known as the Integrative Medicine in Preventive Medicine Education (IMPriME) Center,...

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