Sir Richard Thompson scientific and plausible explanations of the mechanism of a CAM
treatment or, even better, an animal model of the disease and treatment. This may not …

The Science and Technology Committee of the House of Lords launched an inquiry in July
1999 requesting comments on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). The inquiry …

A number of health-related interventions--from widespread therapies such as acupuncture,
herbal medicine, homeopathy and yoga, to less well-known modalities such as Feldenkrais …

The paper aims to dispute common arguments put forward by practitioners of
complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in discussions against conducting clinical …

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Background: To explore the strengths and weaknesses of conventional biomedical research
strategies and methods as applied to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), and …

A recent theme issue of the US Newsweek magazine was titled “The Science of Alternative
Medicine.” In my view, this signifies a major landmark in the development of complementary …

CAM encompasses a wide range of therapeutic modalities, including acupuncture,
chiropractic, herbalism, homeopathy and osteopathy. It occupies a paradoxical position in …

Evidence associated with the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)
therapies is discussed in detail in Chapter 7. Here a brief overview of CAM research is …

1. The amount of wrong or misleading information on CAM, for example, on the Internet, in
popular books, newspaper articles, and so on, is colossal and by far exceeds that in …