Positive Health Online
Your Country
![[Image: http://www.abundanceandhealth.co.uk]](/img/original/BannerAvatar/2836.df7d2315253110ff5b3a566f94871f99.jpg "http://www.abundanceandhealth.co.uk")
![[Image: https://www.water-for-health.co.uk/]](/img/original/BannerAvatar/4046.12831f50177f8848ee87b8e94411d6b3.jpg "https://www.water-for-health.co.uk/")
![[Image: http://www.balens.co.uk]](/img/original/BannerAvatar/2148.50367fa908013fae0a7f1a171543ef92.jpg "http://www.balens.co.uk")
![[Image: http://www.drsgoodman.com/books-goodman/52-nutrition-and-cancer]](/img/original/BannerAvatar/1859.1296090fd8385e7ceff51c8011559097.jpg "http://www.drsgoodman.com/books-goodman/52-nutrition-and-cancer")
Research Updates: alternative medicine
Below are short extracts from research updates about this subject - select more to read each item.
-
Issue 66
BERK and colleagues, Center for Neuroimmunology, School of Medicine, School of Public Health, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California, USA investigated the efficacy of mirthful laughter to modulate human neuroimm1
-
Issue 66
ADAMS and colleagues, Department of Psychiatry, Division of Clinical Psychology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, USA reviewed (63 references) recent compelling research on complementary and alternative medici1
-
Issue 66
MISHRA and colleagues, Southern California University of Health Sciences (SCUHS), SCUHS Whittier Health Center, Whittier, California, USA reviewed (28 references) the Ayurvedic approach to healthcare and
-
Issue 66
GOOD and colleagues, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, mpg@po.cwru.edu investigated the effects of relaxation, music and a
-
Issue 65
Comment: The amount mentioned above regarding the amount spent per month by users of CAM – £13.62 – is tiny when you consider that this is less than the price of a meal, about the cost of a CDROM, less than the cost of a massage or most other treatment1
-
Issue 65
VEERAMAH and HOLMES, Department of Continuing Care Nursing, Canterbury Christ Church University College, Canterbury, Kent, UK explore the increasing use of complementary therapies worldwide .
-
Issue 65
ERNST and WHITE, Department of Complementary Medicine, School of Postgraduate Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Exeter, UK aimed to provide data on the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)
-
Issue 65
ANDERSSON and LYTTKENS, Department of Psychology, Uppsala University, Sweden, Gerhard.Andersson@psyk.uu.se reviewed the psychological treatment of tinn1
-
Issue 65
SUNG, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA examines the sources of shortcomings in the treatment of Asian American patients.
-
Issue 64
OMLOR and colleagues, Klinik fur Allgemeine, Viszeral- und Gefasschirurgie, Katholische Kliniken Essen-Nord gGmbH, Essen, Germany evaluated the effects of preoperative relaxation (visualization) therapy on postoperativ1
-
Issue 64
HEUSSER, University of Bern, Kollegiale Instanz fur Komplementarmedizin KIKOM, Inselspital, Switzerland commented on a study by Sommer et al, recently reported in Complementary Therapies in Medicine, that looked into 1
-
Issue 64
GREENFIELD and colleagues, Department of Primary Care and General Practice, Medical School, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, UK aimed to describe the motivation, experience and attitude change
-
Issue 63
EASTWOOD, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, h.eastwood@spmed.uq.edu.au reviewed (23 references) reasons for the apparent increasing provision or
-
Issue 63
CURDA and colleagues, Krankenanstalt Gasteiner Heilstollen, Bad Gastein-Bockstein, Austria investigated the frequency of use of unconventional therapies by patients with ankylosing spondylitis1
-
Issue 63
ZIMPEL and WINDELER, Abteilung Medizinische Biometrie, Universitatsklinikum Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany investigated whether a publication bias could be shown for the results of medical theses
-
Issue 63
POKANEVYCH and colleagues, (No information re. affiliation/institution) investigated the effects of multimodal treatment including homeopathy on facial nerve neuropathy .
-
Issue 62
COOKE and ERNST, Department of Complementary Medicine, School of Postgraduate Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Exeter, UK, conducted a systematic review (28 references) of aromathe1
-
Issue 62
Murugesan, Govindarajulu and Bera, Department of Physical Education, Pondicherry University, India, examined the effect of selected yogic practices on the management of hypertension.
-
Issue 61
DE VISSER, EZZY and BARTOS, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health, and Society, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia studied alternative and complementary therapy use among people wit1
-
Issue 61
EVRARD BRAS and colleagues, Service de Medecine B et Angiologie Hopital Saint-Eloi, Montpellier, France reviewed the effectiveness of manual physiotherapy (lymphatic drainage) for the treatment of chronic
