Unstated and unacknowledged bias has a profound impact on the nature and implementation of integrative education models. Integrative education is the process of training conventional biomedical and traditional Chinese medicine practitioners in each tradition such that patient care may be effectively coordinated. A bilateral education model ensures that students in each tradition are cross-taugh...

Purpose: to investigate what effects lingual frenotomy has on breastfeeding. Methods: based the research question - “Is there a relationship between improvement in breastfeeding and frenotomy?” -, bibliographical survey was carried out three databases, using following descriptors: ankyloglossia, frenum, frenotomy. Frenotomy is free term. Original articles with babies up 6 months old who had dif...

The 2010 Yale Research Symposium on Complementary and Integrative Medicine highlighted original research in related areas by Yale faculty and provided a forum to discuss and debate issues of evidence and plausibility. In this brief report, we describe selected presentations on such diverse foci as nutritional influences on cancer, acupuncture for low back pain, protein intake's effects on bone ...