Positive Health Online
Your Country
Research Updates: alternative medicine
Below are short extracts from research updates about this subject - select more to read each item.
-
Issue 42
SIMPSON and colleagues, Department of Pharmacology, The Medical School, University of Birmingham UK write that tinnitus is a prevalent condition for which there is no practical and effective pharmacological treatment. The auth1
-
Issue 42
TAYLOR and colleagues, Center for the Study of Complementary and Alternative Therapies, University of Virginia School of Nursing, Charlottesville 22903-3320 USA write that little is known regarding the use of complementary and alternat1
-
Issue 42
LUNDRGREN and STENSTROM, Department of Physiotherapy, Rosenhall, Uddevalla Sweden studied the effects of supervised muscle relaxation training in sufferers of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) .
-
Issue 42
BERMAN and colleagues, Complementary Medicine Program, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore 21207 USA studied the effectiveness of acupuncture in the treatment of fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) .
-
Issue 42
BIELORY and LUPOLI, Asthma and Allergy Research Center, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, Newark 071032499 USA review (235 references) the role of herbal-based medicines in the treatment of
-
Issue 41
JOHNSON AND BORDINAT Department of Family and Community Medicine, Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, East Lansing 48824-1316 USA have been professionally associated with osteopathic medicine
-
Issue 41
COTT and colleagues, Adult Psychopharmacology Program, National Institute of Mental Health, Rockville, Maryland 20857, USA write that St Johns wort (Hypericum perforatum) is a remarkably safe antidepress1
-
Issue 41
JACOBSEN and COHAN, UOP School of Dentistry, San Francisco, CA 94115 USA write that complementary and holistic health care is a growing area in medicine and dentistry . The authors review (16 1
-
Issue 41
WAINAPEL and colleagues, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY USA conducted a survey to document the prevalence, patterns of
-
Issue 41
WEISER and colleagues, Biologische Heilmittel heel GmbH, Baden-Baden, Germany. Weiser.michael@heel.de. compared the efficacy and safety of the homoeopathic remedy Vertigoheel with betahistine hydrochl1
-
Issue 41
BLAND, HealthComm International, Inc, Harbor, Washington USA reviews (72 references) how the ageing populations healthcare demands can be met by promoting healthy ageing.
-
Issue 40
BITTINGER and colleagues, III. Medizinische Klinik, Zentralklinikum Augsbug Germany review the literature (34 references) regarding alternative treatments for functional gastrointestinal disorders
-
Issue 40
CHEN and CHEN, Department of Pathology, East Orange Veterans Affairs Medical Center, New Jersey 07018 USA writes that medical thinkers in China visualised the liver in microcosmal and 1
-
Issue 40
REUTHER and ALDRIDGE, Faculty of Medicine, Universitat Witten Herdecke, Witten, Germany conducted a pilot study to investigate the efficacy of Qigong Yangsheng for the treatment of asthma . Qigong Yan1
-
Issue 40
HAMMERSCHLAG, Yo San University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Santa Monica, California 90401 USA reviews (48 references) controlled clinical trials of acupuncture .
-
Issue 39
NORLANDER and colleagues, Department of Psychology, Karlstad University, Sweden. at.norlander@mailbox.swipnet.se investigated the possible psychological effects of the
-
Issue 39
BREWER, University of Plymouth, Faculty of Human Sciences, Institute of Health Studies, Taunton UK explores Guzzetta's (1988) notion that musical vibrations which are in tune with our human vibratory pattern may have a
-
Issue 39
DAVIS and colleagues, Department of Internal Medicine, University of California at Davis, USA write that, despite advances in the diagnosis and treatment of asthma, the incidence of mortality is increasing thr1
-
Issue 39
DRIVDAHL and colleagues, Department of Family Practice, Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, Wash USA conducted a study which examined the characteristics of family practice patients who used alternative medicine
-
Issue 38
CALDERON, Centro de Salud de Gomez de Alza, Donostia-San Sebastian explored views of Primary Care and Homoeopathic physicians in the same area regarding their attitudes towards Homoeopathy as 1