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Alternative medicine

Alternative medicine refers to practices that aim to achieve the healing effects of medicine, but that by definition lack biological plausibility, testability, repeatability, or supporting evidence of effectiveness. Such practices are not part of evidence-based medicine. Unlike modern medicine, which employs the scientific method to test plausible…

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Alternatives to science-based medicine

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related to Bibliography · 152
Alternative medicine → Accommodating Pluralism, Alternative Medicines, Alternative Therapies, America, American Public, Annotated, Anthony, Archived, Assessing Conventional, Ayurveda, Ayurvedic Therapies, Baltimore, Basic Training, Basingstoke, Bivins, Board, Boca Raton, Bonnie Blair, British Medical Association, Callahan
related to Further reading · 106
Alternative medicine → AANA Journal, Accountability, Advising, Anderson, Annals, Archived, Bausell, Benedetti, Berkeley, Best, Buffalo, California Press, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, CMJ, Complementary Therapies, Conventional Medicine, CRC Press, CRNAs, Dawkins
related to Journals · 34
Alternative medicine → Aliso Viejo, Alternative, Alternative Medicine Archived, Alternative Medicine Review, Archived, BioMed Central, California, Churchill Livingstone, Clinical Therapeutics, Complementary Medicine Archived, Complementary MedicineJournal, Edinburgh, Health, Hindawi, Idaho, InnoVision Communications, Journal, London, Mary Ann Liebert, Medicine
related to Functional medicine · 30
Alternative medicine → American Academy, CAM, David Gorski, Family Physicians, FM, FM's, Functional, Functional Medicine, Gorski, HealthComm, IFM, In, It, Jeffrey Bland, Jonathan Jarry, Jonathan Stea, Mark Hyman, McGill University, Office, Patients
related to Complementary or integrative medicine · 28
Alternative medicine → Alternative, At, Cancer Research UK, CDC, Cleveland Clinic, CM, Complementary, David Colquhoun, David Gorski, Disease Control, For, Gorski, IM, In, Mayo Clinic, NHS, Northwestern University, Prevention, Robert Todd Carroll, Rose Shapiro
related to Medical education · 27
Alternative medicine → All, American, Baltimore, By, CAM, Cochrane Collaboration, Doctor, Examination, Exceptionally, Flexner, Flexner Report, Licensed, Mainly, Maryland, MD, Medical, Medicine, School, Snyderman, Typically
related to Rejection of science · 23
Alternative medicine → Alternative, American Medical Association, CAM, Complementary, Even, Funding, George, It, JAMA, Journal, Lundberg, Marcia Angell, Medicine, Most, Phil Fontanarosa, Practitioners, Prominent, Proposed, Steven Novella, Studies
related to NCCIH classification · 21
Alternative medicine → As, Bioelectromagnetic-based, Biofield, Biology, Biology-based, Chinese, Complementary, Cut, Energy, Explore, Integrative Health, Manipulative, Mind-body, National Center, NCCIH, None, The, The United States, These, Use
related to Definitions and terminology · 18
Alternative medicine → Asian, Complementary, Eastern, European, For, Health, Integrative Health, Loose, National Center, NCCAM, NCCIH, OAM, Office, Terminology, The, Therapies, United States National Institutes, Western
related to history · 15
Alternative medicine → American Medical Association, At, Before, BMJ, British Medical Journal, By, Department, In, Investigation, It, The, This, United States, Until, Use

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medicine alternative therapies medical complementary may practices treatments scientific conventional health isbn research cam treatment use science used effect traditional

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Alternative medicineClaimsAlternatives to science-based medicine1.00infobox
cancer or HIV infectioninstance ofespecially for diseases that are not expected to get better by themselves0.80text
multiple studies have shown significantly worse outcomes if patients turn to alternative therapiesinstance ofespecially for diseases that are not expected to get better by themselves0.80text
Gorskiinstance ofDavid Gorski has described integrative medicine as an attempt to bring pseudoscience into academic science-based medicine with skeptics0.80text
David Colquhoun referring to this with the pejorative terminstance ofDavid Gorski has described integrative medicine as an attempt to bring pseudoscience into academic science-based medicine with skeptics0.80text
herbsinstance ofas in energy medicine.Herbal remedies and other substancesSubstance based practices use substances found in nature0.80text
foodsinstance ofas in energy medicine.Herbal remedies and other substancesSubstance based practices use substances found in nature0.80text
non-vitamin supplementsinstance ofas in energy medicine.Herbal remedies and other substancesSubstance based practices use substances found in nature0.80text
megavitaminsinstance ofas in energy medicine.Herbal remedies and other substancesSubstance based practices use substances found in nature0.80text
animalinstance ofas in energy medicine.Herbal remedies and other substancesSubstance based practices use substances found in nature0.80text
fungal productsinstance ofas in energy medicine.Herbal remedies and other substancesSubstance based practices use substances found in nature0.80text
and mineralsinstance ofas in energy medicine.Herbal remedies and other substancesSubstance based practices use substances found in nature0.80text

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