What is Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)?

A shot in the arm for alternative medicine
The Northern Echo - Darlington,UK
... was once Gateshead's central library but these days a large brass plaque on its honey-coloured stone facade reads: "The Northern College of Homeopathic Medicine ...

In fairness to Herbal Medicine as an alternative
News Today Online - Iloilo City,Iloilo,Philippines
... our last years in medical school: The preventive and community part of Family Medicine, we were all exposed to herbal medicine and alternative medicine as an ...

Acupuncture offers holistic approach
Cay Compass - Grand Cayman,Cayman IslandsIn 1997, the National Institute of Health conducted a Consensus of Acupuncture, and the findings were encouraging for the realm of alternative medicine. ...

“Best mode of treating pain is Acupuncture”
Newindpress (subscription) - Chennai,India
... But there can be complications due to improper technique, lack of skills among others. Acupuncture is not an alternative medicine but a complementary medicine. ...

Massage Enters the Mainstream
Fitcommerce - USA
... Doubts about the "touchy-feely" aspects of massage steered patients away and kept massage mired in the murky world of alternative medicine. ...

Some Chinese medicines 'can contain poisons'
Daily Mail - UK - UK
... Traditional Chinese medicine is the most popular alternative medicine in the UK with at least 3,000 known practitioners. The legal ...

Flash: No Needles
Washington Post - United States
... The new research, presented last month at the North American Research Conference on Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Edmonton, Alberta, is scheduled ...

Facing cancer: how they do it
Malaysia Star - Malaysia
... they feel very insecure when they complete treatment.” – Dr Leong Kin Wah. “With alternative medicine making so much news with mostly unsubstantiated ...

Alternative therapies grow in NH
The Union Leader - Manchester,NH,USA
... as $20 billion was spent on private healing practitioners, according to data from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, a division of ...

What You Should Know About Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Forbes - USAThere's a term for those therapies -- "complementary and alternative medicine," or CAM -- and it describes the wide range of health systems, practices and ...

Regulation a Help or Hindrance?
International News Service - Sydney,Australia
... patient's complaint. Alternative medicine providers say the state has targeted them even when no harm has been found. "I do think ...