A third of all Americans use complementary and alternative medicine--including chiropractic, acupuncture, homeopathy, naturopathy, nutritional and herbal treatments, and massage therapy--even when their insurance does not cover it and they have to pay for such treatments themselves. Nearly a third of U.S. medical schools offer courses on complementary and alternative therapies. Congress has created an Office of Alternative Medicine within the National Institutes of Health, and federal and state lawmakers have introduced legislation authorizing widespread use of such therapies. These...
A third of all Americans use complementary and alternative medicine--including chiropractic, acupuncture, homeopathy, naturopathy, nutritional and ...
One of the transformations facing health care in the twenty-first century is the safe, effective, and appropriate integration of conventional, or biomedical, care with complementary and alternative medical (CAM) therapies, such as acupuncture, chiropractic, massage therapy, herbal medicine, and spiritual healing. In Healing at the Borderland of Medicine and Religion, Michael H. Cohen discusses the need for establishing rules and standards to facilitate appropriate integration of conventional and CAM therapies.
The kind of integrated health care many patients seek dwells in a...
One of the transformations facing health care in the twenty-first century is the safe, effective, and appropriate integration of conventional, or biom...
