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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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

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  

Preliminary phytochemical analysis and in vivo evaluation of antipyretic effects of hydro-methanolic extract of Cleome scaposa leaves

Journal of Traditional and Complementary Medicine, 2018
Cleome scaposa has been associated with the prevention of many diseases as fever, abdominal complaints and cancer. But its antipyretic effect is not reported so far. The aim of this study was to assess the efficacy of C.
Waheed Mumtaz Abbasi, Saeed Ahmad, Sajida Perveen, Tayyeba Rehman   +3 more
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Medicine is patriarchal, but alternative medicine is not the answer [PDF]

, 2019
Women are over-represented within alternative medicine, both as consumers and as service providers. In this paper, I show that the appeal of alternative medicine to women relates to the neglect of women’s health needs within scientific medicine.
A Broom, A Busato, A Furnham, A Furnham, A Rimmer, A Scott, A Shahvisi, A Wilson, AH MacLennan, AM Gronowski, AP Pietropaoli, Arianne Shahvisi, C Blease, C McIntosh, C Nimnuan, CA Moyer, CJ Thompson, CMTG Wijk van, D Colquhoun, D Lie, D Ojanuga, DE Hoffmann, DH Robinson, E Ernst, E Ernst, E Flammer, E Grossman, E Sointu, EH Chen, F Goodyear-Smith, FG Miller, G Iacobucci, GJ Andrews, GW Mikhail, H Herrman, HA Cahill, HA Tindle, HG Hall, J Chatwin, J Drew, J Jacobs, J Moore, J Murray, J Posner, JA Astin, JT Shuval, K Bakx, K Hamberg, K Malterud, KC Atwood, KD Stein, L Cordingley, L Leidy Sievert, L Page, LS Wieland, M Cameron, M Frass, M Siahpush, M Upmark, MD Finnigan, MJ Verhoef, MS Lee, N Nissen, N Robinson, N Tuana, O O’Neill, P Posadzki, R Blais, R Casiday, R Pelletier, RA Verheij, RR Bies, S Eardley, S Gollschewski, S Homola, S Thorne, SE Hartman, SM Greenfield, T Nuhn, TA Mirtz, TJ Kaptchuk, TJ Kaptchuk, U Mitzdorf, UF Trummer, V Govender, V Vaccarino, Y Keshet   +86 more
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