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Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the context of cancer; prevalence, reasons for use, disclosure, information received, risks and benefits reported by people with cancer in Norway 

BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, 2022
Background Research exploring the use of specific Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) modalities by Norwegian cancer patients is sparse. The aims of this study were therefor to map the different CAM modalities cancer patients use and further ...
Agnete E. Kristoffersen, Jorunn V. Nilsen, Trine Stub, Johanna Hök Nordberg, Barbara Wider, Dana Mora, Kiwumulo Nakandi, Mona Bjelland   +7 more
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Traditional, complementary and alternative medicine use in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review

BMJ Global Health, 2018
Background The WHO estimates that a considerable number of people in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) rely on traditional, complementary and alternative medicine (TCAM) to meet their primary healthcare needs, yet there remains a dearth of research evidence on ...
Peter Bai James, J. Wardle, A. Steel, Jon Adams   +3 more
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Cancer patients’ use of complementary and alternative medicine in Sweden: a cross-sectional study

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2019
BackgroundAccess to and advice on Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) are uncommon within Swedish conventional cancer care and little is known about cancer patients’ own use of CAM.
Kathrin Wode, R. Henriksson, L. Sharp, Anna Stoltenberg, Johanna Hök Nordberg   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Dose-Dependent, Antidepressant, and Anxiolytic Effects of a Traditional Medicinal Plant for the Management of Behavioral Dysfunctions in Animal Models

Dose-Response, 2019
The present work was carried out to assess the Onosma bracteatum anxiolytic and antidepressant properties. Swiss albino mice (male) were fed orally with hydroalcoholic extract at different doses 50, 100, and 200 mg 1 hour prior to test with the standard ...
Hafiz Muhammad Asif, Abdul Hayee, Muhammad Rahil Aslam, Khalil Ahmad, Abdul Sattar Hashmi   +4 more
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Alternative medicine: Soul healers [PDF]

Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2005
The wars and subsequent crisis in the former Yugoslavia have brought about a different, distressed value system to the populations in Serbia. One of its reflections is seen in an establishment of the so-called alternative healing systems.
Stojanović Marko
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Secular values and the location of religion: a spatial analysis of an English medical centre [PDF]

, 2007
What do contemporary controversies in healthcare reveal about secular values and the location of religion within an English medical centre? Using a socio-spatial methodology designed to break open ideological perspectives and normative values, we ...
Adams, Asad, Beckford, Beckford, Bruce, Carrette, Carrette, Clarke, de Certeau, Ferguson, Foucault, Foucault, Foucault, Foucault, Foucault, Franks, Franks, Gilliat-Ray, Gilliat-Ray, Heelas, Heidegger, Henwood, Jantzen, Kim Knott, Knott, Knott, Lefebvre, Luff, Massey, Myfanwy Franks, Parsons, Parsons, Parsons, Rosenfeld, Saks, Sharples, Shilling, Sinclair, Taylor, Taylor, Turner, Weber, Wilson   +42 more
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What is alternative, complementary, and integrative medicine?

Revista de la Facultad de Medicina, 2022
The concept of alternative medicine was created by Western medicine to differentiate conventional medicine from medical practices such as traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture, homeopathy, neural therapy, osteopathic and chiropractic medicine ...
Eduardo Humberto Beltrán-Dussán
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Investigation Toward The Economic Feasibility of Personalized Medicine For Healthcare Service Providers: The Case of Bladder Cancer [PDF]

arXiv, 2023
In today's complex healthcare landscape, the pursuit of delivering optimal patient care while navigating intricate economic dynamics poses a significant challenge for healthcare service providers (HSPs). In this already complex dynamics, the emergence of clinically promising personalized medicine based treatment aims to revolutionize medicine.
arxiv  

Exposing the evidence gap for complementary and alternative medicine to be integrated into science-based medicine. [PDF]

, 2011
When people who advocate integrating conventional science-based medicine with complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) are confronted with the lack of evidence to support CAM they counter by calling for more research, diverting attention to the ...
Hopayian, K, Power, M.
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Complementary and alternative medicine use in patients before and after a cancer diagnosis.

Current Oncology, 2018
Background Cancer patients are increasingly seeking out complementary and alternative medicine (cam) and might be reluctant to disclose its use to their oncology treatment team.
Carly A. Buckner, R. Lafrenie, J. Dénommée, J. Caswell, D. Want   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source