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Issue 224
MARX and COLLEAGUES, (1)Research Department, Oregon College of Oriental Medicine, 75 NW Couch St, Portland, OR 97209, USA. bmarx@ocom.edu developed a bibliographic database of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) a1
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Issue 222
STRÖMSTEDT and COLLEAGUES, (1)Division of Pharmacognosy, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Biomedical Center, Uppsala University, Box 574, 751 23, Uppsala, Sweden reviewed bioactive compounds from different organisms in nature wit1
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Issue 215
RELTON, Sheffield School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 30 Regent Street, Sheffield S1 4DA, UK. c.relton@sheffield.ac.uk
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Issue 215
VAN HASELEN and JUTTE, Complementary Therapies in Medicine, 22 Eden Street, Suite 467, Kingston KT1 1DN, UK. vanhaselen.ctim@intmedi.com conducted a workshop to explore the implications of the placebo effect for both research and clinical p1
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Issue 140
HYLAND and others, School of Psychology, University of Plymouth, PL4 8AA Plymouth, UK, have studied the outcomes of treatment with Bach flower essences with unexpected results.
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Issue 133
DUIMEL-PEETERS and co-workers, Department of Health Care Studies/Section Nursing Science, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universiteit Maastricht, Maastricht, Netherlands, have studied the knowledge, beliefs, and practice of massage in the prevention of pressure ulcers.
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Issue 129
LANG and colleagues, Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 02215 Boston, MA, USA, have found that words can hurt.
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Issue 112
BELL and colleagues, Program in Integrative Medicine, The University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ, USA, ibell@u.arizona.edu, have developed a new global wellbeing scale for research in integrative medicine.
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Issue 108
BAUSSELL and colleagues, University of Maryland School of Nursing, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA, bbausell@compmed.umm.edu, have found that larger effect sizes are correlated with better quality in controlled trials of complemen1
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Issue 108
SMITH, Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Cancer Institute / NIH, 6130 Executive Boulevard, Executive Plaza North Suite 102, MSC 7302, Bethesda, MD 20892-7302, USA, smithwe@mail.nih.gov, has writt1
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Issue 104
DINCER and LINDE, Department of Clinical Medicine II, Centre for Complementary Medicine Research, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Munich, Germany, have reviewed (67 references) sham interventions in randomized clinical trial of acupuncture.
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Issue 94
LINDE and co-workers, Centre for Complementary Medicine Research, Department of Internal Medicine II, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Munich, Germany, Klaus.Linde@lrz.tu-muenchen.de, describe the qu1
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Issue 91
PARK and colleagues, Department of Complementary Medicine, School of Postgraduate Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Exeter, UK, J.B.Park@exeter.ac.uk, have reviewed (52 references) the nomenclature o1
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Issue 84
VICKERS, Integrative Medicine Service, Memorial Sloane-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10021, USA, vickersa@mskcc.org, shows how to reduce the number of patients needed for r1
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Issue 84
WHITE et al., Department of Complementary Medicine, School of Sport and Health Services, Exeter, UK, a.r.white@ex.ac.uk, make consensus recommendations for optimal treat1
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Issue 83
MACPHERSON et al., Foundation for Traditional Chinese Medicine, York, UK, E: hugh@ftcm.org.uk, recommend standards for reporting interventions in controlled trials of acupuncture1
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Issue 83
SHERMAN et al., Northwest Institute of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA, E: sherman.k@ghc.org, describe and validate a non-invasive pl1
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Issue 82
REILLY, Glasgow Homoeopathic Hospital, Glasgow, Scotland, davidreilly@compuserve.com, reviewed (8 references) recent studies showing evidence for effectiveness of homeopathic medicines.
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Issue 82
BERMAN, Complementary Medicine Program, University of Maryland at Kernan Hospital, Baltimore 21207-6697, USA, Bberman@compmed.ummc.ab.umd.edu, reviewed (24 references) studies that are of so1
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Issue 82
PLAUGHER and colleagues, Director of Research, Life Chiropractic College West, 25001 Industrial Boulevard, Hayward, California 94545, USA, examined the feasibility of carrying out a randomized controlled clinical trial1