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complementary and alternative medicine
The Big Picture: What Is a Doctor of Integrative Medicine?
May 1st, 2013A new type of doctor has emerged in the realm originally known as alternative medicine. This new entry on the scene is a “doctor of integrative medicine.”
Medicine in the Mix
May 1st, 2013Worldwide only 10 to 30 percent of health care is provided by what most of us in the US would recognize as a doctor or nurse—someone trained in science-based medicine. The remainder, upwards of 70 percent of the human race, seeks to treat illness by way of folk practitioners using treatment traditions often very different from our own.
Understanding the role of complementary and alternative medicine
Are We Finally Heading toward a “Therapeutic Order” for the Nation?
January 1st, 2013The overlapping fields of complementary, holistic, natural, whole-person, alternative, and integrative health and medicine can seem unruly, confusing, and impossible to get your mind around. With literally hundreds of approaches, therapies, and disciplines in the mix, how do you organize your relationship to it?
Health Tips: 54% of women use Prayer: The Most Common Complementary & Alternative Medicine Practice
September 1st, 2012What is the most common type of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) treatment that mid-life women in the United States use to maintain their health?
Annie Appleseed Project Aids in Cancer Treatment
March 1st, 2012The spark that became the Annie Appleseed Project (annieappleseedproject.org) ignited with the diagnosis of a single cancer patient nearly 20 years ago.
Organization seeks to move alternative therapies into the mainstream through its website and conferences.
