VAIL, Colorado –Most people in the Vail Valley think of naturopathic medicine as preventive medicine. Using nutrition, herbal medicine and homeopathy is without a doubt the best way to stay healthy, ...

Integrative medicine (IM) is an approach that combines conventional medicine with complementary treatments. The aim of IM is to treat the whole person, not just a health problem. Because IM is ...

Before opting for any of these alternative choices, first consult with one’s own physician (MD or DO) ...

Functional and integrative medicine are closely related. Both approaches take a broad view of the factors that can affect a person’s health and focus on addressing them in treatment. The terms ...

Background: Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) is increasingly used in the West, but the evidence on its effectiveness is a matter of debate. We compared the characteristics, study quality and results of ...

Americans who have seen a health care provider in the past year for treatment of an illness or medical condition hold largely positive views of their experience. Most of those receiving care felt that ...

The largest national survey of its kind that measured medical students' attitudes and beliefs about complementary and alternative medicine found that three-quarters of them felt conventional Western ...

What is complementary and alternative medicine? Complementary and alternative medicine includes a wide range of healing practices that some people use to treat lupus or other conditions. Some examples ...

Complementary medicine ranges from authentic stress-relieving massage to well-meaning (but expensive) placebo, to outright spurious healing claims. Researchers decided to study its impact on patients ...

In this post I describe the divergent perspectives of the dominant biomedical model of mental health care used in industrialized countries, and the increasing trend in the use of so-called ...