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Alternative Medicine

Known as: Medicine, Alternative, Alternative Therapy, CAM 
National Institutes of Health

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Alternative TherapiesAromatherapyArt TherapyBehavioral Medicine

Narrower (5)

Chiropractic (field)Massage TherapyMedicine, FolkMilieu Therapy

Broader (2)

Complementary therapiesMedicine

Papers overview

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2003
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2003
Bacterial silver resistance: molecular biology and uses and misuses of silver compounds.
  • S. Silver
  • FEMS Microbiology Reviews
  • 2003
  • Corpus ID: 18162092
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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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2002
Review
2002
The escalating cost and prevalence of alternative medicine.
BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to measure trends in the prevalence and cost of alternative medicines and alternative… 
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Complementary/alternative medicine use in a comprehensive cancer center and the implications for oncology.
PURPOSE Oncologists are aware that their patients use complementary/alternative medicine (CAM). As cancer incidence rates and… 
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… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Use of alternative medicine by women with early-stage breast cancer.
BACKGROUND We analyzed the use of alternative medicine by women who had received standard therapy for early-stage breast cancer… 
Review
1998
Review
1998
Trends in alternative medicine use in the United States, 1990-1997: results of a follow-up national survey.
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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1998
Review
1998
Why patients use alternative medicine: results of a national study.
CONTEXT Research both in the United States and abroad suggests that significant numbers of people are involved with various forms… 
Review
1998
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1998
The prevalence of complementary/Alternative medicine in cancer
Complementary/alternative cancer treatments are believed to be prevalent. However, reliable prevalence rates do not exist. The… 
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1996
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1996
Prevalence and cost of alternative medicine in Australia
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