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  1. Within the intercultural milieu of medical pluralism, a nexus of worldviews espousing distinct explanatory models of illness, our research aims at exploring factors leading to complementary and alternative med...

    Authors: Szilvia Zörgő, György Purebl and Ágnes Zana
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2018 18:25
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  2. Unhealthy lifestyles are a major factor in the development and exacerbation of many chronic diseases. Improving lifestyles though immersive residential experiences that promote healthy behaviours is a focus of...

    Authors: Dhevaksha Naidoo, Adrian Schembri and Marc Cohen
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2018 18:8
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  3. Integrative health care (IHC) is an innovative approach to health care delivery. There is increasing focus on and demand for the evaluation of IHC practices. To ensure such evaluations capture their full scope...

    Authors: Ania Kania-Richmond and Amy Metcalfe
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:548
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  4. The University of Arizona Integrative Health Center (UAIHC) was an innovative integrative medicine (IM) adult primary care clinic in Phoenix, Arizona. UAIHC used a hybrid payment model to deliver comprehensive...

    Authors: Robert L. Crocker, Amy J. Grizzle, Jason T. Hurwitz, Rick A. Rehfeld, Ivo Abraham, Randy Horwitz, Andrew Weil and Victoria Maizes
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:490
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  5. Use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is widespread among different patient populations despite the availability of evidence-based conventional medicine and lack of supporting evidence for the cl...

    Authors: Mandreker Bahall
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:422
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  6. Colorectal cancer imposes threats to patients’ well-being. Although most physical symptoms can be managed by medication, psychosocial stressors may complicate survival and hamper quality of life. Mindfulness a...

    Authors: Rainbow T. H. Ho, Adrian H. Y. Wan, Jessie S. M. Chan, S. M. Ng, K. F. Chung and Cecilia L. W. Chan
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:390
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  7. Cancer-related fatigue is one of the most common symptoms experienced by cancer patients, and it diminishes their quality of life. However, there is currently no confirmed standard treatment for cancer-related...

    Authors: Mikyung Kim, Jung-Eun Kim, Hye-Yoon Lee, Ae-Ran Kim, Hyo-Ju Park, O-Jin Kwon, Eun-Jung Kim, Yeon-Cheol Park, Byung-Kwan Seo, Jung Hyo Cho and Joo-Hee Kim
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:353
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  8. Sophisticated conventional medicine (CM) has brought significant advances to cancer prevention, detection, and treatment. However, many cancer patients still turn to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM...

    Authors: Mandreker Bahall
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:345
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  9. Authors: Miriam Ortiz, Katharina Schnabel, Michael Teut, Gabriele Rotter, Sylvia Binting, Margit Cree, Fabian Lotz, Ralf Suhr, Benno Brinkhaus, Mohammad M. Parvizi, Farhad Handjani, Mohammad M. Zarshenas, Mahmood R. Moein, Majid Nimrouzi, Gholamreza Hatam, Jafar Hasanzadeh…
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17(Suppl 1):333
    Content type: Meeting abstracts Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 17 Supplement 1

  10. Authors: Benno Brinkhaus, Torkel Falkenberg, Aviad Haramati, Stefan N. Willich, Josephine P. Briggs, Merlin Willcox, Klaus Linde, Töres Theorell, Lisa M. Wong, Jeffrey Dusek, Darong Wu, David Eisenberg, Aviad Haramati, Bettina Berger, Kathi Kemper, Beate Stock-Schröer…
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17(Suppl 1):322
    Content type: Meeting abstracts Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 17 Supplement 1

  11. Authors: Carolyn Ee, Sharmala Thuraisingam, Marie Pirotta, Simon French, Charlie Xue, Helena Teede, Agnete E. Kristoffersen, Fuschia Sirois, Trine Stub, Jennifer Engler, Stefanie Joos, Corina Güthlin, Jennifer Felenda, Christiane Beckmann, Florian Stintzing, Roni Evans…
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17(Suppl 1):317
    Content type: Meeting abstracts Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 17 Supplement 1

  12. Engagement in healthy lifestyle behaviors, such as healthy diet and regular physical activity, are known to reduce the risk of developing coronary heart disease (CHD). Complementary and alternative medicine (C...

    Authors: Agnete E. Kristoffersen, Fuschia M. Sirois, Trine Stub and Anne Helen Hansen
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:324
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  13. Despite a growing body of scientific literature exploring the nature of meditation there is limited information on the characteristics of individuals who use it. This is particularly true of comparative studie...

    Authors: Adam Burke, Chun Nok Lam, Barbara Stussman and Hui Yang
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:316
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  14. This study revealed that majority of the pharmacy students were using or had previously used at least one type of CAM. Among the students, 59% had used homeopathy followed by Ayurveda (30%), meditation (29%), mas...

    Authors: Bijoy Laxmi Saha, Md. Omar Reza Seam, Md. Mainul Islam, Abhijit Das, Sayed Koushik Ahamed, Palash Karmakar, Md. Fokhrul Islam and Sukalyan Kumar Kundu
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:314
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  15. In recent decades, the evidence supporting the physical and mental health benefits of holistic movement practices such as yoga and t’ai chi have become increasingly ... was to examine participation prevalence and...

    Authors: Ineke Vergeer, Jason A. Bennie, Melanie J. Charity, Jack T. Harvey, Jannique G. Z. van Uffelen, Stuart J. H. Biddle and Rochelle M. Eime
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:296
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  16. While complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is commonly used in the United States and elsewhere, and hazardous interactions with prescription drugs can occur, patients do not regularly communicate with ...

    Authors: Carrie M. Christensen, Rebecca S. Morris, Seraphine Chepkemoi Kapsandoy, Melissa Archer, Jinqiu Kuang, Laura Shane-McWhorter, Bruce E. Bray and Qing Zeng-Treitler
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:272
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  17. Despite the paucity of scientific evidence, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is widely used for the prevention and treatment of illness, holistic care, and counteracting the adverse effects of conv...

    Authors: Mandreker Bahall
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:250
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  18. Chronic activation of the stress-response can contribute to cardiovascular disease risk, particularly in sedentary individuals. This study investigated the effect of a Bikram yoga intervention on the high frequen...

    Authors: Zoe L. Hewett, Kate L. Pumpa, Caroline A. Smith, Paul P. Fahey and Birinder S. Cheema
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:226
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  19. Yoga is increasingly popular, though little data regarding ... no research on the acceptability or effectiveness of yoga delivered through telehealth. Therefore, we evaluated ... , and patient-reported effectiven...

    Authors: R. Jay Schulz-Heik, Hilary Meyer, Louise Mahoney, Michael V. Stanton, Rachael H. Cho, Danae P. Moore-Downing, Timothy J. Avery, Laura C. Lazzeroni, Joanne M. Varni, Linda Martin Collery and Peter J. Bayley
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:198
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  20. Chronic pain patients often use complementary medicine (CM) to alleviate their pain; however, little is known about the use of CM by chronic low back pain (cLBP) patients. We investigated the frequency of use ...

    Authors: Julie Dubois, Emmanuelle Scala, Mohamed Faouzi, Isabelle Decosterd, Bernard Burnand and Pierre-Yves Rodondi
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:193
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  21. Women with metastatic breast cancer (MBC) have average life expectancies of about 2 years, and report high levels of disease-related symptoms including pain, fatigue, sleep disturbance, psychological distress, an...

    Authors: James W. Carson, Kimberly M. Carson, Maren K. Olsen, Linda Sanders and Laura S. Porter
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:153
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  22. Only a small number of articles have investigated the relationship between mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) and biomarkers. The aim of this systematic review was to study the effect of MBIs on specific b...

    Authors: Kenji Sanada, Marta Alda Díez, Montserrat Salas Valero, María C. Pérez-Yus, Marcelo M. P. Demarzo, Jesús Montero-Marín, Mauro García-Toro and Javier García-Campayo
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:125
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  23. Despite ongoing consumer demand and an emerging scientific evidence-base for traditional and complementary medicine (T&CM), there remains a paucity of reliable information in standard clinical guidelines about...

    Authors: Jennifer Hunter, Matthew Leach, Lesley Braun and Alan Bensoussan
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:116
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  24. Qianggu Capsule, a Chinese patent medicine, has been widely applied in the clinical practice of primary osteoporosis (POP) in recent years. This study aims to summarize the effectiveness and safety of Qianggu ...

    Authors: Xu Wei, Aili Xu, Hao Shen and Yanming Xie
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:108
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  25. Type two diabetes is a complex and demanding chronic disease and its impact in a state (Kerala) which leads India in terms of the number of people with Diabetes is profound. Though the male to female ratio among ...

    Authors: Aswathy Sreedevi, Unnikrishnan Ambika Gopalakrishnan, Sundaram Karimassery Ramaiyer and Leelamoni Kamalamma
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:100
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  26. The Practitioner Research and Collaboration Initiative (PRACI) is an innovative, multi-modality practice-based research network (PBRN) that represents fourteen complementary medicine (CM) professions across Au...

    Authors: Amie Steel, David Sibbritt, Janet Schloss, Jon Wardle, Matthew Leach, Helene Diezel and Jon Adams
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:87
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  28. Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use is popular in former Soviet Central Asian countries including Mongolia. However, no studies are available on CAM use among patients with cancer in countries of ...

    Authors: Buyadaa Oyunchimeg, Jung Hye Hwang, Mansoor Ahmed, Soojeung Choi and Dongwoon Han
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:58
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  29. Data on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use in patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD) are lacking. We aim to investigate the prevalence of CAM use among patients with CVD attending a tertiary ...

    Authors: Tse Yean Teo, Jonathan Yap, Tong Shen and Khung Keong Yeo
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2016 16:446
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  30. We aimed to evaluate the effect of an 8-week yoga intervention on the shoulder and spinal actions...

    Authors: Annette Loudon, Tony Barnett, Neil Piller, Maarten A. Immink, Denis Visentin and Andrew D. Williams
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2016 16:343
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  31. We developed and disseminated an educational DVD to introduce U.S. Veterans to independently-practiced complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) techniques and encourage CAM experimentation. The project’s g...

    Authors: Rachel Forster Held, Susan Santos, Michelle Marki and Drew Helmer
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2016 16:340
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  32. Self-report measures indicate that Yoga practices are perceived to reduce stress; however ... various biomolecules has been increasingly recognized. As Yoga practice stimulates salivary secretion, and saliva is.....

    Authors: Waleed O. Twal, Amy E. Wahlquist and Sundaravadivel Balasubramanian
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2016 16:294
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  33. With an estimated 65 million Diabetes Mellitus (DM) patients, India ranks second in the world in terms of DM burden. The emphasis of current medical practice has been on pharmacotherapy but, despite the best comb...

    Authors: Srinivas Bairy, Ajay M. V. Kumar, MSN Raju, Shanta Achanta, Balaji Naik, Jaya P. Tripathy and Rony Zachariah
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2016 16:290
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  34. Chronic pain can alter the autonomic balance with increased sympathetic activity reflected in altered heart rate variability (HRV). It has been proposed that yoga can be useful to correct the autonomic...

    Authors: Shirley Telles, Sachin Kumar Sharma, Ram Kumar Gupta, Abhishek Kumar Bhardwaj and Acharya Balkrishna
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2016 16:279
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  35. It is estimated that over half of the adult U.S. population currently has one or more chronic conditions, resulting in up to an estimated $1,600 in productivity loss annually for each employee with chronic dis...

    Authors: Jennifer Mongiovi, Zaixing Shi and Heather Greenlee
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2016 16:248
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  36. Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), and herbal therapies, are accepted worldwide, and have been important from medical, sociological and economic perspectives, among haemodialysis (HD) patients. The ...

    Authors: Sa’ed H. Zyoud, Samah W. Al-Jabi, Waleed M Sweileh, Ghada H. Tabeeb, Nora A. Ayaseh, Mayas N. Sawafta, Razan L. Khdeir, Diana O. Mezyed, Dala N. Daraghmeh and Rahmat Awang
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2016 16:204
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  37. There is increasing evidence that complementary medicine (CM) services are being used by a substantial proportion of the Australian population and this topic has attracted keen interest from primary health car...

    Authors: Rebecca Reid, Amie Steel, Jon Wardle, Andrea Trubody and Jon Adams
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2016 16:176
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  38. Medical pluralism has flourished throughout the Western world in spite of efforts to legitimize Western biomedical healthcare as “conventional medicine” and thereby relegate all non-physician-related forms of ...

    Authors: Jeremy Y. Ng, Heather S. Boon, Alison K. Thompson and Cynthia R. Whitehead
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2016 16:134
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  39. The prevalence of endometriosis was 3.7 % and of the perimenstrual symptoms assessed, PMS was most prevalent at 41.2 % whilst irregular bleeding (22.2 %), heavy periods (29.8 %) and severe period pain (24.1 %) we...

    Authors: Carole Fisher, Jon Adams, Louise Hickman and David Sibbritt
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2016 16:129
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  40. The widespread and growing use of alternative and complementary medicine (CAM) worldwide has been thoroughly described. In Argentina the limited information on the use of CAM has been reported between 40 and 5...

    Authors: Santiago Esteban, Fernando Vázquez Peña and Sergio Terrasa
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2016 16:109
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  41. The purpose of our study was to determine the prevalence of traditional, complementary and alternative medicine (TCAM) use in patients with chronic diseases in lower Mekong countries.

    Authors: Karl Peltzer, Supa Pengpid, Apa Puckpinyo, Siyan Yi and Le Vu Anh
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2016 16:92
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  42. The EUDAIMON study focuses on fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS), a prevalent chronic condition characterized by pain, fatigue, cognitive problems and distress. According to recent reviews and meta-analyses, Mindfuln...

    Authors: Albert Feliu-Soler, Xavier Borràs, María T. Peñarrubia-María, Antoni Rozadilla-Sacanell, Francesco D’Amico, Rona Moss-Morris, Matthew A. Howard, Nicolás Fayed, Carles Soriano-Mas, Marta Puebla-Guedea, Antoni Serrano-Blanco, Adrián Pérez-Aranda, Raffaele Tuccillo and Juan V. Luciano
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2016 16:81
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  43. Research on continued CAM use has been largely atheoretical and has not considered the broader range of psychological and behavioral factors that may be involved. The purpose of this study was to test a new co...

    Authors: Fuschia M. Sirois, Anita Salamonsen and Agnete E. Kristoffersen
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2016 16:75
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  44. Ayurveda has its historical roots in India, but has also been internationalised, partly via migration and partly through an increased interest in alternative medicine in the West, where studies point toward in...

    Authors: Maria Niemi and Göran Ståhle
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2016 16:62
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  45. In Malaysia, the number of reported cases of dengue fever demonstrates an increasing trend. Since dengue fever has no vaccine or antiviral treatment available, it has become a burden. Complementary and alterna...

    Authors: SiewMooi Ching, Vasudevan Ramachandran, Lai Teck Gew, Sazlyna Mohd Sazlly Lim, Wan Aliaa Wan Sulaiman, Yoke Loong Foo, Zainul Amiruddin Zakaria, Nurul Huda Samsudin, Paul Chih Ming Chih Lau, Sajesh K. Veettil and Fankee Hoo
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2016 16:37
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  46. Yoga is a behavioral practice that uses physical ... improve health and promote personal transformation. Ancient yoga philosophy proposed that an individual’s confidence about yoga, a concept similar to self-effi...

    Authors: Gurjeet S. Birdee, Stephanie J. Sohl and Ken Wallston
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2016 16:3
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  47. Breast cancer patients commonly report using >1 form of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). However, few studies have attempted to analyze predictors and outcomes of multiple CAM modalities. We sough...

    Authors: Garrett Strizich, Marilie D. Gammon, Judith S. Jacobson, Melanie Wall, Page Abrahamson, Patrick T. Bradshaw, Mary Beth Terry, Susan Teitelbaum, Alfred I. Neugut and Heather Greenlee
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:411
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  48. People with prehypertension (120–130/80–90 mmHg) are at increased risk of progressing to hypertension. Recommendations for prehypertension include engaging in regular physical activity. We aimed to assess feas...

    Authors: Kelly McDermott, Deepak Kumar, Veronica Goldman, Haojun Feng, Wolf Mehling, Judith T. Moskowitz, Richard B. Souza and Frederick M. Hecht
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:368
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  49. This study developed and tested a sociobehavioral wellness model of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) to differentiate predisposing factors, enabling resources, need, and personal health practices a...

    Authors: Dawn M. Upchurch and Bethany Wexler Rainisch
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 15:362
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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