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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 50
BARNES and colleagues, Department of Complementary Medicine, School of Postgraduate Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Exeter UK. jo.barnes@exeter.ac.uk studied the growth in interest in complementary and alternative medicine1
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Issue 50
BOULDIN and colleagues, Department of Pharmacy Administration, The University of Mississippi 38677, USA. phacsb@olemiss.edu conducted a survey to document the market presence of herbal medicine products in community pharmacies1
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Issue 50
MANYAM and SANCHEZ-RAMOS, Parkinsons Disease and Movement Disorders Clinic, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, USA write that Parkinsons disease has existed in different 1
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Issue 50
WAGNER and colleagues, Department of Family Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta 30912-3500 USA. pwagner@mail.mcg.edu. write that the number of visits to practitioners of alternative medicine in the US is estimated at 425 mill1
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Issue 49
DRUSS and ROSENHECK, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, West Haven, Conn USA benjamin.druss@yale.edu. write that the terms alternative and complementary medicine suggest 2 cont1
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Issue 49
LAFRENIERE and colleagues, University of Windsor, Psychology Department, Ontario Canada lafrenl@uwindsor.ca. studied the effects of therapeutic touch (TT) upon biochemical indicators and moods in women
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Issue 49
CAMPBELL, Royal London Homeopathic Hospital notes that homoeopathic writers frequently refer to classical homoeopathy, implying that this is the most complete and authoritative version of Hahnemanns view1
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Issue 49
ODA and colleagues, Department of Health and Physical Education and Research, Faculty of Education, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan studied the effects of underwater exercise upon relaxation .
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Issue 48
MACPHERSON and colleagues, Foundation for Traditional Chinese Medicine, York UK conducted a pilot study regarding the use of acupuncture for low back pain .
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Issue 48
DATTA and colleagues, Kalyani University, Department of Zoology, India compared, in mice, the efficacy of Arsenicum Album 30C and 200C in protecting against genotoxic effects produced by Arsenic trioxide
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Issue 48
SOMMER and colleagues, University of Basel, Health Economics and Social Policy Research Unit, Switzerland investigated the effects of including alternative medicine within the benefit package of health insurance in Swi1
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Issue 48
GRANT and colleagues, Liberton Hospital, Edinburgh, UK. d.j.grant@btinternet.com conducted a randomised clinical trial comparing acupuncture with transcutaneous electrical 1
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Issue 48
RAO and colleagues, Roudebush Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Indiana University School of Medicine, and Regenstrief Institute for Health Care, Indianapolis 46202, USA write that people with chronic conditions commonly use co1
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Issue 47
SUDMEIER and colleagues, Universitatsklinik fur Innere Medizin, Innsbruck, Austria studied the effects of reflexology upon renal blood flow.
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Issue 47
LI, Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Pharmacology writes that obesity manifests itself as derangement of qi and blood with disorder of the defensive qi in particular to be a causative fac1
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Issue 47
WYLIE and colleagues, Department of Neuropsychiatry, Bootham Park Hospital, York UK studied the efficacy of acupuncture and massage with relaxation upon chronic headache .
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Issue 47
MEISTER and colleagues, Medizinische Klinik, Kantonsspital Glarus, Switzerland write that migraine and other functional disorders are common yet often difficult to treat, with alternative treatment mo1
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Issue 47
MANSOUR and colleagues, College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada. Mansour@duke.usask.ca write that Reiki is a popular alternative therapy, advocated as a precise method for connecting universal1
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Issue 46
CRIDER and GLAROS, Department of Psychology, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts USA reviewed the literature of more than 2 decades regarding treatments incorporating electromyographic (EMG) 1
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Issue 46
REISS and REISS, Department of Ear, Nose and Throat, University of Dresden, Germany write that tinnitus can rarely be cured . The authors review the literature (12 references).
