INTRODUCTION Previous studies suggest that people with arthritis have high rates of using complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) approaches for managing their arthritis, in addition to conventional treatments such as prescription medications. However, little is known about the use of CAM by diagnosis, or which forms of CAM are most frequently used by people with arthritis. This study was ...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To determine predictors of use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies among patients with cancer. DESIGN Secondary analysis of two federally funded panel studies. SETTING Urban and rural communities in the midwestern United States. SAMPLE Patients with lung, breast, colon, or prostate cancer (N = 968) were interviewed at two points in time. 97% receiv...

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BACKGROUND To examine the accuracy and adequacy of lay media news stories about complementary and alternative medicines and therapies. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS A descriptive analysis of news stories about complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in the Australian media using a national medical news monitoring website, mediadoctor.org.au. Each story was rated against 10 criteria by t...

The seven categories of alternative medicine, as established by the National Institutes of Health Office of Alternative Medicine, are mind-body interventions, bioelectromagnetic therapies, alternative systems of medical practice, manual healing methods, pharmacologic and biologic treatments, herbal medicine, and diet and nutrition. Mind-body approaches have been shown to be effective in a varie...

This will be an interdisciplinary one-day symposium that should be of great interest to biologists, especially botanists, biomedical researchers, practitioners of complementary and alternative medicine, and public health workers. What do the forests in Venezuela and Brazil and plants from California yield as natural products that can be exploited as alternative therapies for the benefit of heal...

BACKGROUND In recent times the basic understanding, perceptions and CAM use among undergraduate health sciences students have become a topic of interest. This study was aimed to investigate the understanding, perceptions and self-use of CAM among pharmacy students in Malaysia. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted on 500 systematically sampled pharmacy students from two private and...

BACKGROUND This study sought to describe the pattern of complementary/alternative medicine (CAM) use among a group of patients with advanced breast cancer, to examine the main reasons for their CAM use, to identify patient's information sources and their communication pattern with their physicians. METHODS Face-to-face structured interviews of patients with advanced-stage breast cancer at a c...

CONTEXT Research both in the United States and abroad suggests that significant numbers of people are involved with various forms of alternative medicine. However, the reasons for such use are, at present, poorly understood. OBJECTIVE To investigate possible predictors of alternative health care use. METHODS Three primary hypotheses were tested. People seek out these alternatives because (1...

BACKGROUND & AIMS The cornerstone of treatment for coeliac disease is a gluten-free diet (GFD). However, adherence to a GFD is variable. Recently investigators have been reporting their preliminary findings using novel therapies. In addition, there is a growing interest in the use of complementary or alternative medicine (CAM) in gastrointestinal illnesses. These observations suggest that patie...