News tagged with alternative therapies
Computerized support keeps prominence of name brand drugs at bay
Nov 09, 2009 |
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Simple computerized alerts can help curb the impulse to prescribe unnecessarily expensive, heavily marketed drugs. A study in the August issue of Journal of General Internal Medicine found that when clinicians received comput ...
Many clinicians unaware of federally funded research on alternative therapies
Apr 13, 2009 |
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Approximately one in four practicing clinicians appear to be aware of two major federally funded clinical trials of alternative therapies, and many do not express confidence in their ability to interpret research results, ...
Survey explores medical care for children with autism using complementary alternative medicine
Mar 12, 2009 |
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In a national survey conducted by the University of Minnesota, primary care physicians report that they are more likely to ask patients with autism about complementary alternative medicine (CAM) use and desire more CAM education ...
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Alternative medicines need to be considered in diabetes management
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jul 04, 2007 |
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People with diabetes are risking their health by not discussing their use of complementary and alternative therapies with the health professionals managing their conventional treatment.
In vitro fertilization less successful with alternative fertility treatments
Aug 18, 2009 |
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Women who are desperately trying to get pregnant might want to avoid complementary and alternative medicine.
Alternative medicine use increasing for patients suffering with chronic rhinosinusitis
Oct 05, 2009 |
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A new study suggests that a growing segment of patients are turning to complementary and alternative medical therapies to help treat the symptoms of chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS).
Pharmacist fined for natural therapies
Sep 14, 2007 |
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A Tennessee pharmacist has received a $1 million fine for treating customers at his health-food store with juices and dietary supplements.
Popular alternative therapy for psoriasis performs no better than placebo
Feb 29, 2008 |
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Anecdotal evidence touting the healing power of the Indian spice turmeric for psoriasis received a setback in a prospective study published this month by a leading dermatology journal stating that the low response rate of ...
Enzyme may create new approach to hypertension therapy
Dec 17, 2009 |
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New research from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine has found that an alternative therapy may be possible for treating some types of hypertension using an enzyme called ACE2.
Americans spent $33.9 billion out-of-pocket on complementary and alternative medicine
Jul 30, 2009 |
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Americans spent $33.9 billion out-of-pocket on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) over the previous 12 months, according to a 2007 government survey1. CAM is a group of diverse medical and health care systems, p ...
Support for adjunctive vitamin C treatment in cancer
Mar 06, 2009 |
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Serious flaws in a recent study, which concluded that high doses of vitamin C reduce the effectiveness of chemotherapeutic drugs in the treatment of cancer, are revealed in the current issue of Alternative and Complementary Th ...
Smoking cessation therapies more effective than placebos
Jul 14, 2008 |
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Six treatments for smoking cessation perform better than placebos — including varenicline (Chantix®), recently approved for use in Canada — states a team of researchers from McGill University and the University of Montreal ...
Non-white med students reject therapies associated with their culture
Nov 17, 2008 |
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Non-white medical students are more likely to embrace orthodox medicine and reject therapies traditionally associated with their cultures. That is one finding from an international study that measures the attitudes of medical ...
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