Integrative Medicine
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Does acupuncture have a place as an adjunct treatment during pregnancy? A review of randomized controlled trials and systematic reviews.

30 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: Complementary medicine has become popular throughout many Western countries and is widely used by women across all stages of their life cycle. Acupuncture is used by women during their pregnancy, and research suggests that acupuncture ... Read more...

Personalized medicine and complementary and alternative medicine: in search of common grounds.

30 Jul 2009 OBJECTIVES: As complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) continues to assume influence in medical care delivery, biomedical orthodoxy has contemporaneously experienced landmark technoscientific advances, tempting analysts to question the ... Read more...

Longevity and optimal health: working toward an integrative methodology.

30 Jul 2009 Efforts to foster a research dialogue between traditions as seemingly divergent as Western biomedicine and Indo-Tibetan medical and self-regulatory practice require a carefully conceived set of methodological guidelines. To approach a useful ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Integrative Medicine'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Does acupuncture have a place as an adjunct treatment during pregnancy? A review of randomized controlled trials and systematic reviews. 30 Aug 2009
• An integrative approach to rhinosinusitis in children. 30 Aug 2009
• Closing the evidence gap in integrative medicine. 30 Aug 2009
• Personalized medicine and complementary and alternative medicine: in search of common grounds. 30 Jul 2009
• Longevity and optimal health: working toward an integrative methodology. 30 Jul 2009
• Clinical characteristics of prostate cancer in advanced stage and its treatment by Chinese and Western medicine. 30 Jun 2009
• To explore the Chinese medicine syndrome types and integrative therapy from clinical relative factors of patients with advanced prostate cancer. 30 Jun 2009
• Primary research on Chinese medicine treatment of androgen-independent prostate cancer. 30 Jun 2009
• Effect and prognostic analysis of treatment for acute myeloid leukemia using Chinese drugs combined with chemotherapy. 30 Jun 2009
• Combined therapy with Chinese medicine and percutaneous transradial coronary intervention for a centenarian patient with acute myocardial infarction. 30 Jun 2009
• Dietary supplement with a combination of Rhodiola crenulata and Ginkgo biloba enhances the endurance performance in healthy volunteers. 30 Jun 2009
• Efficacy of auxiliary therapy with Danggui Buxue Decoction No.1 in treating patients of non-small cell lung cancer at peri-operational stage. 30 Jun 2009
• Study on the relationship between blood stasis syndrome and clinical pathology in 227 patients with primary glomerular disease. 30 Jun 2009
• A randomized, controlled trial of artemisinin-piperaquine vs dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine phosphate in treatment of falciparum malaria. 30 Jun 2009
• Living to the end: Merging holistic and evidence-based strategies to meet the needs of people living with advanced cancer. 29 Jun 2009
• Cultivating healing relationships. 29 Jun 2009
• Integrative medicine and health disparities: a scoping meeting. 29 Jun 2009
• Health professions education and integrative healthcare. 29 Jun 2009
• Is Life a Statin Deficiency State? Observations on Integrative Medicine, Whole-Person Healing, and Our Nation's Pivotal Moment in Healthcare. 29 Jun 2009
• Timothy Birdsall, ND: facilitating hope in integrative cancer treatment. Interview by Frank Lampe and Suzanne Snyder. 29 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Integrative Medicine'

Definition: The discipline concerned with using the combination of conventional (allopathic) medicine and ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE to address the biological, psychological, social, and spiritual aspects of health and illness.

Descriptor UI: D055048

Alternative terms: Integrative Medicine; Medicine, Integrative;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: H02.403.400;

History Note: 2009