At the MLA's 2012 Annual Meeting in Seattle (May 18th - 23rd), Dr. Daniel W. Wright with Palmer College is presenting "Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM): Evidence, Bias, and Use….Oh, My!"
An excerpt follows:
According to the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine a subsidiary of the National Institute of Health (NIH), 38% of Americans will use an alternative medical practitioner sometime in their lifetime; and this number is expected to grow. In response, the NIH has set up dual R25 grants that help allopathic physicians learn more about complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practices and funded CAM institutions to train their practitioners in the ways of evidence-based practice and research literacy. Read more...
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- ACP Evidence-Based Guide to Complementary and Alternative Medicine, © American College of Physicians. This offers a comprehensive, evidence-based analysis physicians need to counsel patients about complementary and alternative medical therapies and to integrate these techniques into their own practices! This new resource focuses on the safety and efficacy of a full range of CAM therapies, providing "at-a-glance" answers to the questions busy clinicians are most often asked. In-depth reviews of the research are thoroughly digested into concise summary tables, placing key information at the reader's fingertips.
