Positive Health Online

Issue 72

ASHER and colleagues, Department of Surgery and Pediatrics, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA, reviewed (89 references) current research on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) relating to r1

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Issue 72

VANDENBROUCKE and DE CRAEN, Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Building 1, PO Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands, vdbroucke@mail.medfac1

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Issue 71

SANTA-ANA, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA, c_santa_ana@hotmail.com, defines complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) for the benefit of healthcare1

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Issue 71

MUR and colleagues, Universitaetsklinik fuer Innere Medizin, Innsbruck, Austria, investigated whether reflex zone foot massage therapy (FRZM) could bring about changes in intestinal blood flow .

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Issue 71

KESSLER and colleagues, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA, kessler@hcp.med.harvard.edu, presented data on time trends i1

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Issue 71

MATTHEES and colleagues, Minnesota State University Moorhead, 56563, USA, aimed to describe complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use by lung transplant patients and to determine whether CAM users differ from non-users 1

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Issue 71

WILES and ROSENBERG, Department of Geography, Queen's University, Ontario, Kingston, K7L 3N6, Canada, 7jlw@qsilver.queensu.ca, reviewed (46 references) literature seeking to explain1

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Issue 71

CASLEY-SMITH, Lymphoedema Association of Australia, Malvern, SA, casley@enternet.com.au, describes pioneering work carried out by the author, using electron microscopy, on the pathophysiologi1

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Issue 70

DIEGO and colleagues, Touch Research Institute, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33101, USA, compared the effects of massage therapy with those of progressive muscle relaxation therapy in HIV-positive 1

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Issue 70

KABOLI and colleagues, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Iowa City 52242, USA, carried out a study to determine the prevalence of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use an1

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Issue 70

DYSON-HUDSON and colleagues, Center for Research in Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Kessler Medical Rehabilitation Research and Education Corp, West Orange, NJ 07052, USA, tdyson-hudson@kmrrec.org1

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Issue 69

MAZUR and colleagues, Department of Pediatrics, The University of Texas-Houston Medical School, 6431 Fannin, Ste 3.138, Houston, TX 77030, USA, identified and compared alternative and complementary treatments used for asthma, 1

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Issue 69

KEEFER and BLANCHARD, The University of Albany, State University of New York, Center for Stress and Anxiety Disorders, 12203, USA, tested the relaxation response meditation program (H. Benson, 1975) as a possi1

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Issue 69

KIM and colleagues, Department of Ophthalmology, Kangnam St. Mary's Hospital, Medical College, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea, investigated the effectiveness of hand massage to reduce anxiety

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Issue 69

WRIGHT and SLUKA, School of Medical Rehabilitation, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, reviewed (156 references) evidence for the usefulness of physical therapies in the management of musculoskeletal pa1

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Issue 68

RAMSEY and colleagues, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington 98109, USA, examined how frequently older adults with osteoarthritis used alternative therapies and how much they spent on the1

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Issue 67

LAVY and colleagues, Israel Ministry of Health, Pharmaceutical Policy and Economics Unit, reviewed the regulation and supervision of natural health products in Israel and other developed countries.

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Issue 67

MILLS, Department of Library Learning, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK, S.Y.Mills@ex.ac.uk, summarized the House of Lords report on complementary medicine .

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Issue 67

THOMAS and colleagues, Medical Centre Unit, School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK, k.j.thomas@sheffield.ac.uk, have attempted to estimate the

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Issue 67

WARDELL and ENGEBRETSON, School of Nursing, University of Texas Houston Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, USA, dwardell@sonl.nur.uth.tmc.edu, have investigated t1

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