Asthma patients often try some form of alternative medicine. This article questions whether
this is good or bad. Systematic reviews fail to demonstrate that the treatments in question are …

Objective: An increasing number of patients with asthma are attracted by complementary
and alternative medicine (CAM). Therefore, it is of importance that scientific evidence about …

Orthodox medical approaches to asthma and allergic respiratory diseases are provided in
guidelines developed by professional societies and national or state organizations that …

The past decade has seen asthma therapy move away from the heady days when control of
this complex disease* seemed within our grasp toward a questioning of current standard …

Alternative systems of medicine include Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, homeopathic, and
naturopathic medicine. Chinese medicine emphasizes the balance of qi (chee) or vital …

Though there have been international meetings and an increasing number of articles on
speleotherapy, there have been no controlled studies." A Some articles have discussed the …

Though there have been international meetings and an increasing number of articles on
speleotherapy, there have been no controlled studies." A Some articles have discussed the …

The most complete and objective analysis of alternative medicine to date can be found in a
recently published report prepared for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) entitled …

Introduction. There are few studies pertaining to asthma patients' views on complementary
and alternative medicine (CAM). The driving question behind the study is why some asthma …

As we wind down the twentieth century, Osler's much quoted concept that an asthmatic does
not die of asthma but pants into old age (1) has given way to a resurgence of this disease as …