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This
section of the Institute's website provides a listing and link capabilities
for other sites related to Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Therapies. The listing of links are provided as a resource only.
Additional links from these sites have not been investigated by
the Institute, and may not be supported by the Institute's philosophy.
American Botanical Council
A non-profit organization established in 1988 with the mission of
educating the public on the use of herbs and phytomedicinals.
American Herbal Association Products
-Mission of association is to serve its members by promoting responsible
commerce of products which contain herbs and which are used to enhance
quality of life.
American Herbalist
Guild
-Develop a professional body that promotes and maintains
excellence in herbalism, including individual and planetary health.
- Strengthen and further the network of support and communication
between herbalists region by region and nation by nation.
- Encourage high levels of ethics and integrity in all areas of
herbalism
- Integrate herbalism into community health care.
- Promote cooperation between herbalists and other health care providers,
encompassing traditional wisdom and knowledge as well as current
medical models.
- Participate in the evolution of standards of education for the
practice of herbalism.
- Promote an ecologically healthy environment and to increase awareness
concerning the interdependence of life, especially the plant-human
relationship.
- Serve as a liaison that interfaces with professional associations
and regulatory agencies.
- Promote further research, education and study of herbal medicine.
CAM on PubMed
NCCAM and the National Library of Medicine have partnered to create
CAM on PubMed, a subset of NLM's PubMed. PubMed provides
access to citations from the MEDLINE database, and additional life
science journals. It also includes links to many full-text articles
at journal websites and other related web resources.
Center
for Complementary & Alternative Medicine Research in Asthma,
Allergy and Immunology at the University of California, Davis
This Center for Complementary & Alternative Medicine is one
of the centers established by the National Center for Complementary
and Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes of Health and
focuses on therapies for asthma.
Dr. Duke's Phytochemical
and Ethnobotanical Databases
This rather technical website is maintained by The Southwest School
of Botanical Medicine. It includes a huge database on botanical
names, chemistry and activity of plants, and also links to nutrition
resources.
eCAM-
Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine from Oxford
Journals
An international, peer-reviewed journal that encourages research
in the new, yet ancient, world of complementary and alternative
medicine.
An FDA Guide
to Choosing Medical Treatments
A Food & Drug Administration site for evaluating medical therapies
and to ensure consumer protection.
HerbMed
HerbMed is an interactive, electronic herbal database that provides
hyperlinked access to the scientific data underlying the use of
herbs for health. It is an impartial, evidence-based information
resource provided by the nonprofit Alternative Medicine Foundation,
Inc.
Herb
Research Foundation
The Herb Research Foundation (HRF) is a nonprofit research and educational
organization focusing on herbs and medicinal plants.
The IN-CAM
Outcomes Database is a collection of outcome measures of particular
relevance to Complementary and Alternative Medicine research.
Our goals are to:
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Make practical information
available on a wide range of outcome measures relevant to CAM
research.
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To organize and categorize
outcome measures within a unique Framework of Outcome Domains
that integrates measurable domains of health into a unified
scheme.
National Library of Medicine's World Wide Web site.
"The world's largest biomedical library." Every significant
program of the Library is represented, from medical history to biotechnology.
Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
The world's oldest and largest private cancer center, Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cancer Center (MSKCC) has devoted more than a century to patient
care as well as to innovative research, making significant contributions
to new and better therapies for the treatment of cancer. This information
resource, presented by MSKCC's Integrative Medicine Service, provides
evidence-based information about herbs, botanicals, supplements,
and more.
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)
supports research and training in many areas of unconventional medical
treatments or preventative therapies. The July 2008 issue of
"CAM at the NIH," the quarterly newsletter of the National Center
for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), is now posted
at http://nccam.nih.gov/news/newsletter/2008_July
New
Medicine PBS Documentary. This
was a PBS special on NJN Channel 50. THE NEW MEDICINE was a two-hour
program exploring the critical role the patient’s attitude
and lifestyle played in the body’s capacity to heal, and examined
how the medical community is beginning to embrace a new range of
treatment options, from acupuncture to mind-body approaches once
considered fringe. The program was hosted by the late Dana Reeve,
who was diagnosed with lung cancer following the death of her husband
Christopher. for more information please click on www.thenewmedicine.org. to view
a health planner. Please clink on this link: http://thenewmedicine.org/health_planner.
Office of Dietary Supplements
NIH sponsored and maintained resource of current events and research
in the field of dietary supplements.
Quackwatch, Inc. -- Fraud Fighter
Quackwatch, Inc., a member of Consumer Federation of America, is
a nonprofit corporation whose purpose is to combat health-related
frauds, myths, fads, and fallacies.
Links related to specific alternative therapies
ACUPUNCTURE
American Association of Oriental
Medicine
433 Front Street
Catasauqua, PA 18032
Phone: 888-500-7999 Fax: 610-264-2768
E-mail: aaom1@aol.com
National Acupuncture & Oriental
Medicine Alliance
14637 Starr Road SE
Olalla, WA 98359
Phone: 253-851-6896 Fax: 253-851-6883
National Commission for Certification of Acupuncturists
P.O. Box 97075
Washington, DC 20090
Phone: 202-232-1404 Fax: 202-462-6157
BIOFEEDBACK
Biofeedback Certification Institute
of America
10200 West 44th Avenue Suite 304
Wheat Ridge, CO 80033
Phone: 303-420-2902 Fax: 303-422-8894
E-mail: bcia@resourcenter.com
HOMEOPATHY
National Center for Homeopathy
801 N. Fairfax Street Suite 306
Alexandria, VA 22314
Phone: 703-548-7790 Fax: 703-548-7792
E-mail: info@homeopathic.org
HYPNOTHERAPY/GUIDED IMAGERY
The American Society of Clinical Hypnosis
33 W Grand Avenue #402
Chicago, IL 60010
Phone: 312-645-9810
MASSAGE/BODYWORK/SOMATIC THERAPIES
American Massage Therapy Association
820 Davis Street Suite 100
Evanston, IL 60201
Phone: 847-864-0123 Fax: 847-864-1178
E-mail: info@inet.amtamassage.org
American Society for the
Alexander Technique
401 East Market St
Charlottesville, VA 22902
Phone: 800-473-0620
E-mail: alexandertec@earthlink.net
Associated Bodywork
and Massage Professionals
28677 Buffalo Park Road
Evergreen, CO 80439
Phone: 800-458-2267 Fax: 303-674-0859
E-mail: expectmore@abmp.com
Feldenkrais Guild of North
America
3611 SW Hood Ave Suite 100
Portland, OR 97201
Phone: 800-775-2118 Fax: 503-221-6616
E-mail: guild@feldenkrais.com
Hellerwork International
406 Berry Street
Mount Shasta, CA 96067
Phone: 800-392-3900 Fax: 530-926-6839
E-mail: hellerwork@hellerwork.com
International Institute
of Reflexology
P.O. Box 12642
St. Petersburg, FL 33733
Phone: 813-343-4811 Fax: 813-381-2807
E-mail: ftreflex@concentric.net
Rolf Institute of Structural Integration
205 Canyon Blvd.
Boulder, CO 80302
Phone: 800-530-8875 Fax: 303-449-5978
E-mail: rolfinst@rolf.org
The Trager Institute
21 Locust Avenue
Mill Valley, CA 94941
Phone: 415-388-2688 Fax: 415-388-2710
E-mail: admin@trager.com
NATUROPATHY
American
Association of Naturopathic Physicians
601 Valley Street Suite 105
Seattle, WA 98109
Phone: 206-298-0125 Fax: 206-298-0129
E-mail: 74602.3715@compuserve.com
OSTEOPATHY
Website for UMDNJ's School
of Osteopathic Medicine
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CAM
In The News:
Acupuncture
provides pain relief and improves function for people with osteoarthritis
of the knee and serves as an effective complement to standard care.
This landmark study was funded by the National Center for Complementary
and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) and the National Institute of Arthritis
and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), both components of
the National Institutes of Health. The findings of the study-the
longest and largest randomized, controlled phase III clinical trial
of acupuncture ever conducted-were published in the December 21,
2004, issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine. More information can also be
found in the NIH
News press release.
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The
World Health Organization (WHO) on 6/22/04 released a new set of
guidelines for national health authorities to develop context specific
and reliable information for consumer use of complementary and alternative
medicine. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/releases/2004/pr44/en/
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The
Spring 2004 issue of Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the
NIH has been published. To access this newsletter and find out how
you can provide input for NCCAM's next 5-year strategic plan, go
to http://www.nccam.nih.gov/news/newsletter.
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FDA
Proposes Labeling and Manufacturing Standards For
All Dietary Supplements
http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2003/NEW00876.html
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NCCAM
discusses latest news on Ephedra
http://nccam.nih.gov/health/alerts/ephedra/ephedra.htm
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Dr.
Perlman was interviewed on "Invent the Future" a 60-minute talk
radio format over the web on Monday November 18, 2002 at 5:00 pm
EST. Log into http://www.visioninabox.com/vamerica.htm to listen to the interview.
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Publications
of interest
"It's
a Dirty Job but Someone has to Do It: Thoughts about Mud and Other
Complementary and Alternative
Therapies" in the Journal of Clinical Rheumatology (2002:8:187-188)
Prevalent Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Amongst
Chronically-ill Children
Archives of Internal Medicine (2001;161:2288-2292)
discusses informed consent within the context of CAM
News
from the FDA as reported by the New York Times
(June 7, 2001)
JAMA
article reports on Herbal Medicines
and Perioperative Care
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