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Why patients use alternative medicine: results of a national study.

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 1998
CONTEXT Research both in the United States and abroad suggests that significant numbers of people are involved with various forms of alternative medicine. However, the reasons for such use are, at present, poorly understood.
J. Astin
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Alternative Medicines

American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, 2013
ABSTRACT Tesio L : Alternative medicines: yes; alternatives to medicine: no. Am J Phys MedRehabil 2013;92:542Y545. Key Words: Integrative Medicine, Residency Training, Alternative Medicine, Rehabilitation T he proposed program 1 of international rotation in integrative rehabilitationmedicine implemented as part of the physical medicine and ...
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Complementary and alternative medicine use among adults and children: United States, 2007.

National health statistics reports, 2008
OBJECTIVE This report presents selected estimates of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use among U.S. adults and children, using data from the 2007 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and ...
P. Barnes, B. Bloom, R. Nahin
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There is no alternative medicine

Medical Humanities, 2010
The term ‘alternative medicine’ is a misnomer because it suggests that there are two kinds of medicine alternative to each other. Although commonly used, the term is problematic. It escapes a meaningful definition, and ‘alternative medicine’ cannot be clearly differentiated from ‘conventional medicine’.
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Alternative Views on Alternative Medicine

Science, 2000
I would like to clarify and respond to the information about me that Eliot Marshall presented in his News Focus article “Bastions of tradition adapt to alternative medicine” (2 June, p. [1571][1]).
L, Mehl-Madrona, M, Katz, E P, Curry, L B, Bribiesca   +3 more
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Complementary and Alternative Medicine Therapies for Psoriasis: A Systematic Review

JAMA dermatology, 2018
Importance Up to 51% of patients with psoriasis report the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in their treatment regimen, although it is unclear which CAM therapies are effective for treatment of psoriasis. Objective This review compiles
A. C. Gamret, A. Price, Raymond Fertig, H. Lev-Tov, A. Nichols   +4 more
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Alternative Medicine or Alternatives to Medicine? A Physician's Perspective

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 2000
Regina R. is a 12-year-old girl with recently diagnosed insulin-dependent diabetes. Before discharging her from the hospital, her family physician and consulting diabetes specialist try to instruct the girl and her parents in the appropriate program of treatment, including diet, insulin, and regular self-monitoring.
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Therapeutic Potential and Outlook of Alternative Medicine for Osteoporosis.

Current Drug Targets, 2017
Osteoporosis, a bone disease resulting in the loss of bone density and microstructure quality, is often associated with fragility fractures, and the latter imposes a great burden on the patient and society. Although there are several different treatments
Taoxue Wang, Qian Liu, William Tjhioe, Jinmin Zhao, Aiping Lu, Ge Zhang, R. Tan, Mengyu Zhou, Jiake Xu, H. Feng   +9 more
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Concepts in alternative medicine

Social Science & Medicine, 1986
After discussing some important alternative approaches, different interpretations are presented of the concepts of health, disease, diagnosis, therapy and patient. These differences are elucidated in three main frames of medical thinking: the pharmaceutical, the integrational and the holistic model. Attention is given to the problem of scientific proof,
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The Unattractiveness of Alternative Medicine

2019
The previous chapter, we discussed the reasons that attract consumers to alternative medicine. As we have seen, these attractions often turn into the opposite, once we realise that they are unfounded. Attractions can thus turn out to be indirect distractions.
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