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This page provides links to cancer-related
Internet resources dealing with alternative and complementary medicine.
The Williamsburg Regional Library
provides a variety of cancer-related resources and services for adults and
children, including both circulating and reference books and audiovisual
materials.
- The
Alternative Medicine Homepage
- Maintained by Charles Wessel,
librarian at the Falk Library of the Health Sciences at the Univ.
of Pittsburgh, this site provides access to databases of information
on alternative medicine, directories of practitioners, online
discussion and newsgroups, and links to other Internet resources on
this topic.
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- Alternative
Therapies
- The American Cancer Institute site
provides an overview of the use of alternative therapies, links to
articles on nontraditional medicine, and information on specific
therapies.
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- The
American Botanical Council
- A non-profit organization founded in
1988, the ABC promotes research and public education regarding the
benefits of medicinal plants.
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- The
NIH Office of Alternative Medicine
- The National Center for Complementary
and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) works to identify and evaluate the
scientific literature on alternative medical practices, and to
disseminate information on alternative medical research to the media,
to the public, and to healthcare professionals. This site
contains an index to articles, bibliographies of cancer resources, and
a clearinghouse for information on contemporary and alternative
medicine.
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- Health
Care Information Resources -- Alternative Medicine
- Created by a librarian at McMaster
University Health Services Library, this site has numerous links to
Internet information on alternative medicine resources. The
links are arranged in two groups -- general resources for alternative
medicine and specific resources on single topics in alternative
medicine. There is also an online dictionary of terms used in
alternative therapies.
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- Complementary
and Alternative Medicine Center
- Mayo Clinic's Complementary and
Alternative Medicine Center provides an overview of Complementary and
Alternative Medicine. Also use this site to learn how to
evaluate claims of treatment success.
- National
Cancer Institute's Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- NCI's site provides links to questions
and answers about complementary and alternative medicine and other
quality CAM websites. Also, this site provides users with an
article about the level of evidence of human based studies of cancer
alternative and complementary medicine.
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- NOAH:
New York Online Access to Health
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NOAH provides links to high quality consumer health websites.
Included in NOAH is a listing of various alternative and complementary
websites. Topics such as aromatherapy, acupuncture, massage,
naturopathic medicine and many others are included.
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- The
Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Center for Complementary & Alternative
Medicine
- A comprehensive resource for
information on alternative medicine sponsored by the Columbia
University School of Medicine. The Carol Ann Schwartz Cancer
Initiative at the Rosenthal Center focuses on providing information on
alternative/complementary cancer treatment, including clinical trials.
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