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Alternative Medicine
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Medicine, Alternative
, Alternative Therapy
, CAM
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2003
Review
2003
Bacterial silver resistance: molecular biology and uses and misuses of silver compounds.
S. Silver
FEMS Microbiology Reviews
2003
Corpus ID: 18162092
Review
2002
Review
2002
The Placebo Effect in Alternative Medicine: Can the Performance of a Healing Ritual Have Clinical Significance?
T. Kaptchuk
Annals of Internal Medicine
2002
Corpus ID: 207535762
Efficacious therapy, in one biomedical definition, is therapy that has positive effects greater than those of an…
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Review
2002
Review
2002
The escalating cost and prevalence of alternative medicine.
A. Maclennan
,
David H. Wilson
,
Anne W. Taylor
Preventive Medicine
2002
Corpus ID: 11191162
BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to measure trends in the prevalence and cost of alternative medicines and alternative…
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Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Complementary/alternative medicine use in a comprehensive cancer center and the implications for oncology.
M. Richardson
,
T. Sanders
,
J. Palmer
,
A. Greisinger
,
S. Singletary
Journal of Clinical Oncology
2000
Corpus ID: 41396715
PURPOSE Oncologists are aware that their patients use complementary/alternative medicine (CAM). As cancer incidence rates and…
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Review
2000
Review
2000
Prevalence of use of complementary/alternative medicine: a systematic review.
E. Ernst
Bulletin of the World Health Organization
2000
Corpus ID: 11700416
Reported are the results of a systematic review of the prevalence of use of complementary/alternative medicine. Computerized…
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Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Use of alternative medicine by women with early-stage breast cancer.
H. Burstein
,
S. Gelber
,
E. Guadagnoli
,
J. Weeks
New England Journal of Medicine
1999
Corpus ID: 29036649
BACKGROUND We analyzed the use of alternative medicine by women who had received standard therapy for early-stage breast cancer…
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Review
1998
Review
1998
Trends in alternative medicine use in the United States, 1990-1997: results of a follow-up national survey.
D. Eisenberg
,
R. B. Davis
,
+4 authors
R. Kessler
JAMA
1998
Corpus ID: 10976647
CONTEXT A prior national survey documented the high prevalence and costs of alternative medicine use in the United States in 1990…
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Review
1998
Review
1998
Why patients use alternative medicine: results of a national study.
J. Astin
JAMA
1998
Corpus ID: 3767790
CONTEXT Research both in the United States and abroad suggests that significant numbers of people are involved with various forms…
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Review
1998
Review
1998
The prevalence of complementary/Alternative medicine in cancer
E. Ernst
Cancer
1998
Corpus ID: 23708028
Complementary/alternative cancer treatments are believed to be prevalent. However, reliable prevalence rates do not exist. The…
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1996
Review
1996
Prevalence and cost of alternative medicine in Australia
A. Maclennan
,
D. Wilson
,
A. Taylor
The Lancet
1996
Corpus ID: 35752725
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