Alternative and Complementary Health Practices (ACHP or "CAM")

Alternative&ComplementarPractices (ACHP)
AKA Complementary & Alternative Medicine (CAM)
Includes Traditional / Indigenous Medicine & Healing

Alternative Medicine: Expanding Medical Horizons (NIH/OAM's "Chantilly Report")
A Report to the NIH on Alternative Medical Systems and Practices in the USA / Workshop on Alternative Medicine, Chantilly, VA

WHO Traditional Medicines Homepage y Health (http://www.who.int/medicines/areas/traditional/en/index.html) / WebLink
The CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE at the George Washington University (GWU) Medical Center: A healing environment in which patients can learn about a variety of complementary & alternative therapies / WebLink
Medicine's Chasm: The wide gulf between conventional and alternative approaches widens-From American Medical News (AMA) / WebLink
EAR CANDLES: Do they Work? Inquiring Ears are all abuzz! / WebLink
Complementary and Alternative Medicine by Adrian S. Dobs, MD, MHS; Bimal H. Ashar, MD, in WebMD / WebLink
Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation (MMRF) Center for Addiction and Alternative Medicine Research (CAAMR) / WebLink
http://www.cancerlynx.com/index.html / WebLink
http://www.curezone.com/diseases/support_groups.asp / WebLink
Enhancing the Accountability of Alternative Medicine (Millbank 1/98) / WebLink
CA Naturopathic Practice Act-PASSED 9/5/2003 / CA Senate President Pro Tem John Burton
NEW for 2004-Health Canada's Natural Health Products Directorate's Compendium of Monographs (mostly herbal at: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hpfb-dgpsa/nhpd-dpsn/monograph_compendium_list_e.html) / WebLink
CDC Advance Data Report #343. Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use Among Adults: United States, 2002. May 27, 2004 (http://nccam.nih.gov/news/camsurvey.htm) / WebLink
NCHS: CAM Use Among Adults: United States, 2002 / (Local Copy)
Chiropractic Origins, Controversies, and Contributions / JAMA/Archives
Complementary Therapies for Depression — An Overview / JAMA/Archives
Hepatitis C and Complementary and Alternative Medicine: 2003 Update / NIH
Herbal Medicine for the Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease — Clinical Considerations / JAMA/Archives
Michigan: Alternative Medicine - Special Report / MSMS
Report 13 of the Council on Scientific Affairs (A-97)Folk Medicine Among Individuals in Ethnic Subgroups in the United States: Some Clinical Implications / AMA
Complementary Therapy Assessment: Acupuncture for Ocular Conditions and Headaches / AAO
Traditional Chinese Medicine for the Treatment of Dermatologic Disorders / JAMA/Archives
Do CAM Therapies Help Menopausal Symptoms? / NIH
Alternative Therapies for Diabetes / NIH
Complementary/Alternative Medicine in the Treatment of Asthma / ACAAI
Herbal Medicinals — Selected Clinical Considerations Focusing on Known or Potential Drug-Herb Interactions / JAMA/Archives
Position StatementAlternative Medical Care / ACOEM
Treatment of Irritable Bowel Syndrome with Chinese Herbal Medicine — A Randomized Controlled Trial / JAMA/Archives
Saw Palmetto Extracts for Treatment of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia — A Systematic Review / JAMA/Archives
Acupuncture for Back Pain — A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials / JAMA/Archives
ACOG Committee Opinion: Complementary and Alternative Medicine / ACOG
SACRED EARTH CIRCLE: NATIVE AMERICAN HEALING, SPIRITUALITY, & CULTURE; and Qigong Research & Practice Center (http://www.kennethcohen.com) / WebLink
Spirit: Resource for Healing, by Rachel Naomi Remen-IONS-Institute for Noetic Sciences (http://www.noetic.org/publications/review/issue08/main.cfm?page=r08_Remen.html#photo) / WebLink
Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) "Shift" MAgazine-Special Focus: Integral Health and Healing (http://www.noetic.org/publications/shift/issue3/main.cfm) / WebLink
PCA-Medicinal Plant Working Group, including E-Proceedings from the 2003 Medicinal and Aromatic Plant Industry Symposium (http://www.nps.gov/plants/medicinal/index.htm) / WebLink
BioMed Central (BMC) Complementary and Alternative Medicine Ejournal: (http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmccomplementalternmed) / WebLink
Public Health Acupuncture Resources / Karlo Berger and Beth Sommers
Best Practices in Intecultural Health-PAHO Report on the Integration of Traditional and Biomedical Health Care (http://idbdocs.iadb.org/wsdocs/getdocument.aspx?docnum=564741) / WebLink
Best Practices in Intecultural Health-2006 Report / PAHO: Local Copy
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (http://www.ethnobiomed.com) / WebLink
Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine (http://ecam.oxfordjournals.org/) / WebLink
PowerPoint presentations by members of the AAP Section on Complementary, Holistic, and Integrative Medicine (http://www.aap.org/sections/chim/education.htm) / WebLink
Powerpoint Presentations from the Provisional Section on Complementary, Holistic, and Integrative Medicine (http://www.aap.org/sections/chim/education.htm) / WebLink