Chinese medicine, including both acupuncture and herbs, offers a valuable alternative approach to treating MS. This form of medicine considers patients and diseases as individual cases with ...

Complementary or alternative therapies such as acupuncture and massage will not cure MS or change its progression ... academic research institutions, and medical journals and associations.

Epidemiologic evidence from the 2007 National Health Interview Survey showed that 38.3% of the general public in the USA used complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) within the last 12 months.

School of Postgraduate Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Exeter, 25 Victoria Park Road, Exeter EX2 4NT, UK. Tel/Fax: +44 (O)1392 424989 Many cancer patients use complementary and alternative ...

mh.org.au Background: The perceptions of emergency department (ED) patients towards complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) are poorly understood. We assessed these perceptions and compared CAM ...

My nana and my mum were both quite alternative," she says ... Cancer Council says patients should consult their GP and medical team before trying any new therapy. All up, Ula estimates she ...

Herbal medicines can also harm renal patients indirectly by interacting with or prompting discontinuation of prescribed drugs. As many as two-thirds of the people who use 'alternative' medicine ...

Gertrude Inyang, an alternative medicine practitioner ... leaving room for quacks to mislead patients. For emphasis, Ms Inyang shared "success stories" of patients who, she said, received ...

Your cousin tells you acupuncture has really helped her migraines. Your sister swears by chiropractic for her stiff neck. You wouldn't mind exploring some alternative therapies for a few of your ...

Gertrude Inyang, an alternative medicine practitioner ... conducted by lab analysis of blood samples collected from patients, but Ms Inyang told the reporter that a holistic test would be ...

Medication shortages for alternative meds have been reported. The situation has been made worse by variable prescription drug coverage, and steep out-of-pocket patient copays for some alternative ...