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Research Updates: alternative medicine
Below are short extracts from research updates about this subject - select more to read each item.
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Issue 61
VAN HASELEN and FISHER, The Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital, Great Ormond Street, London WC1N 3HR, UK compared the efficacy and safety of a homeopathic gel with those of a non-steroidal anti-inflamm1
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Issue 61
FIELD and colleagues, Touch Research Institute, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida 33101, USA assessed the effectiveness of massage therapy for the treatment of burn injuries in comparison 1
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Issue 60
IRELAND and OLSON, College of Nursing, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, Newark, USA reviewed the effect of massage therapy and therapeutic touch in children .
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Issue 60
TAYLOR and colleagues, University Department of Medicine, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, conducted a randomized controlled trial of homeopathy versus placebo in perennial allergic rhinitis .
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Issue 60
CUCHERAT and colleagues, Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Hospitals of Lyon and University Claude Bernard, France. mcu@upcl.univ-lyonl.fr reviewed evidence of clinical efficiency of homeo1
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Issue 60
White and Ernst, Department of Complementary Medicine, School of Postgraduate Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK. a.r.white@ex.ac.uk systematically reviewed <1
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Issue 59
Huntley and Ernst, Department of Complementary Medicine, School of Postgraduate Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK. conducted a review of complementary and alternative thera1
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Issue 59
Liu and colleagues, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, Department of Complementary Medicine Services, Presbyterian Hospital, School of Public Health, Columbia University, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. ehl7@colu1
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Issue 59
Babichenko, (no address given) investigated the use of acupuncture reflexotherapy in the treatment of hypertension patients . [Article in Ukrainian]
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Issue 59
Perry and Dowrick, Department of Primary Care, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK. investigated the use of, and attitudes towards complementary medicine among urban general practic1
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Issue 58
CHARD, TALLON and DIEPPE, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, UK. J.a.chard@bristol.ac.uk reviewed (20 references) the epidemiology of research into interventions for osteoarthritis of the knee.
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Issue 58
HALL and GILES-CORTI, Department of Public Health, University of Western Australia surveyed Perth GPs to identify their knowledge, attitudes and referral patterns towards 10 complementary therapies.
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Issue 58
KROUSE and KROUSE, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA. kroushj.valencia@shands.ufl.edu described the complementary therapeutic practices in patients with chronic sinusitis.
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Issue 58
SCHULZ, (no address given) volkschu@t-online.de r eviewed (21 references) the psychodynamic and pharmacodynamic effects of drugs.
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Issue 58
TALLON, CHARD and DIEPPE, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, UK described the relation between agendas of the research community and the research consumer.
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Issue 56
BLOOM and colleagues, University of Pennsylvania, USA performed an evaluation of randomized controlled trials on complementary and alternative medicine.
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Issue 56
HEMMINGS and colleagues, Division of Sport Studies, University College Northampton, United Kingdom set out to describe the effects of massage on the performance of athletes.
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Issue 56
HUHTALA and colleagues, Department of Pediatrics, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland. virpi.susanna.huhtala@utu.fi conducted a clinical trial comparing infant massage with a crib vibrator for colic.
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Issue 56
PITTLER and colleagues, Department of Complementary Medicine, School of Postgraduate Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom. MHPittler@exeter.ac.uk systematically investigated the location bias in controlled clinical1
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Issue 56
RESCH, ERNST and GARROW, Forschungsinstitute fur Balneologie und Kuortwissenschaft, Bad Elster, Germany conducted a clinical trial of reviewer bias against an unconventional medicine.
