Research

Searches & Databases

Medline Search

Medscape from WebMD

CAM on PubMed - NLM

National Library for Health (UK)

National Institutes of Health

Centers for Disease Control

The Merck Manual

Google Scholar

A List of CAM Research Databases ~ 40 (Great Resource!)

OMNI

 

Bridging Spirituality and Western Medicine/Science

The Dalai Lama at Stanford School of Medicine

Two worlds of Ritual are Joined in the Operating Room (NYT)

The Science and Medical Network

Does Prayer Help Others Heal? (WebMD)

Awakening the Healer Within

The Alternative Fix (PBS)

 

Critics

A Call for Evidence for CAM

Caution over HIV "cure" Claim (BBC News)

Doctors Attack "Bogus" Therapies (BBC News)

The Seven Words You Shouldn’t Use in Medical News

Making Research a Requirement of Treatment

Far Out, Man. But Is It Quantum Physics? (NYT)

 

Complementary & Alternative Medicine Research

WHO: Traditional Medicine

Basic Designs for Healing Studies

Healing Studies and Clinical Reports

A Guide to Peer Review

Distinguished Lectures in the Science of CAM

CAM at OHSU

CAM Resource Center by AMSA

Faculty of 1000 - Identifying the Medicine Papers

Evaluating Internet Health Information and CAM

A groundbreaking experiment ... or a sensationalized TV stunt?

 

Reports

The Smallwood Report on CAM

White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy

CAM & Cancer - 2005 EU Report

 

Research Journals (Peer-Reviewed)

Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine

Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine

Integrative Medicine - A Clinicians Journal

Advances in Mind-Body Medicine

British Medical Journal (CAM)

The Healers Voice Journal

Free Medical Journals Site

MedBioWorld - CAM

BioMed Central - CAM

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

 

Blogs

The Integrator

 

Evidence Based CAM Journals

Oxford: Evidence-based CAM

Focus on Alternative and Complementary Therapies

 

Research Organizations

The Research Council for Complementary Medicine (UK)

International Society for Complementary Medicine Research

The Prince of Wale's Foundation for Integrated Health (UK)

Canadian Interdisciplinary Research Network for CAM

Holistic Health Research Foundation of Canada

Vancouver Research Network for Spirituality and Healing

 

CAM Research Training

CAM Research Training Program

 

Cancer

Integrative Therapies Program for Children with Cancer at Columbia University

CAM: Cancer (EU)

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

National Cancer Institute - CAM Information

Thinking about Complementary and Alternative Medicine
 

 

Research Guides

Book: "The Guide to Complementary and Alternative Medicine on the Internet"

 

Drug and Herb Databases

Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database (USA - fee)

Herb Research Foundation (Free)

The Rote Liste (Germany - License Req.)

ePocrates Rx Online (USA - Drugs and Alt. Meds - fee)

The Physician's Desk Reference (USA)

FDA Medwatch - Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting (USA)

 

Events

North American Research Conference on Complementary and Integrative Medicine (2006)

Monaco International Talks on Alternative Therapy (2005)

Harmonization of Traditional and Modern Medicine (2005)
 

 

Research Centers and Medical Schools

The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine

The Johns Hopkins Center for CAM

The Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Healthcare, and Society - UMASS Medical School

The Continuum Center for Health and Healing at Beth Israel Medical Center

The Mind Body Medical Institute at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel

 

updated 20 January 2007