NATURAL WHOLISTIC ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES

The division of alternative and standard is relatively recent. William Osler M.D., author of the greatly respected medical text of the early 1900's, included a great deal of what is now called 'alternative' therapies. Flexner/Flexnor report of 1910 of Rockefeller divided based on schools: stead - east - vanderbilt- sntp - jama - pubmed - herbalgram -
Now we have the Impending Collapse of Internal Med by AmColPhys and promotion of wellness Prevention Trust

AMF - earthmed(bearj) - alternativemed - new age directory - bastyr - amrta ibis - ibis - ibis - unc - altvetmed - weil - newage - health world - nexus - share - JL McLaughlin, Purdue, plant agents - health choices - IBIShealthweb - IBIS - mediherb monographs (sbear ye) - medweb links - Tierra - goodhealth - AltMedSemantics -

Sweat Lodge: sweat1 - Running Foot - Their - Rob -

Aromatherapy: vanhove -

Chiropractic: educ - future -

Latin American Traditional Med: PAHO1999 -

Homeopathy: Homeopathy - vanZandvoort repertory - HomeopathicTexts - Brit09 - Brit -

Ancient: Ancient Med links - Hippocrates - Hippocrates - Greek Classics - Bear review - PrometraTraditAfroMed -

Yoga: Crandell -
Tai Chi: animated - academy - wiki -
Chi Gong, QiGong: everyday - baduanJin - shouyuliang - DuCaneIntro - DuCane -

Ayurvedic: Tierra - ayurvedicconcepts - ayurveda fd. - Maharishi - Chauhan - vata (air), pitta (fire), kapha (water) - ITTM - niam - nutritdynamics - sears - IndiaherbIP -
Tibetan Medicine: crows - Dharmapalas -

TCM Traditional Chinese Medicine principles & general: TCMprinciples - cintcm - craneTCM - China-med.net(bear j) - TCMid_Yuzong - TCM-LARS - IITCM - Wicke/rmhi 220 (rmhi h7e6r2b) - rmhi - rxlist - checklist - TCMpharmacy - Inst TCM - Calif St board - China Med News - @Chinese Med Inst - Masss - chinamed sales - Qi-J - AJCM - JCM - Liaoning - 300Formulas - Calif Soc OrientalMed - polyu - TCM chembase - TCMgendit -
TCM Herbs: flora of china - findanherb - 7 relationships (Wright) -
TCM Formulae: newcent -
Acupuncture: TCM acupunct lit db - WHO -

Alternative Med: NIH OAM - phytomed medline (OAM) - NHS - UT CAM -  Medical Herbalism - Intl J Pharmacognosy - Pharm Bio - $db: Intramedicine - NaturalMed - healthnotes - taxonomy of CAM (Eisenberg & Kaptchuk) - Incamdb bearj excite -

Schools: ND - Bastyr - National - SW - TaiSophia - TaiSophiaLibCatalog - Bridgeport - RMCBS - RMHI(TCM) - SWSBM(Moore) - NESBM(7song) - Canadian - NCP - NDschools - NDschools - NDschools - NDschools - NDschools -

Spas: Michelrieth - Aesclepias -

Consultants: Torkelson - Duke -

Animal, Vet alt vetmed -

People

Organizations, Associations: Altern Med Fd - AMF - AmHerb Guild/Upton - AmHerb Guild - herbworld - Soc Econ Bot - Am Botan Council/Blumenthal - ABC - ABC - Herb Research Fd/McCaleb - NIH Ofc Altern Med - wrf - phytonet UK - Am Soc Pharmacognosy - Soc Med Med Plant Res (Germany) - Phytochem Soc - Phytochem Soc - Phytochem Soc Eur - SocEcoBot - ASPET(faseb) - guiaverde list - kew list - hii - herbring - AICR(diet&cancer) -  HEALlinks - Medherb - newhope expoeast - Am Assn NatPhys - Samueli -

Government: WhiteHouseCommissiononAltMed - NCI OCCAM - OCCAMlectures -

FDA regulation: herb IND 2000 - supplements guide 1998 - FDABotanicalReview - FDAdiabeticClaimsWarnings -

Directory, People: AltMedWeb - pitt list -

Discussion, Chat: pitt listserv list - pharmacognosy - algy herbboard - countrylife ethnobotany - palms - gardenweb natives - paracelsus(jkl) - hippocrates - Wilkinson -

Schools: Bastyr - Natl Col Portland -  SWSBM Moore - scu - NSBM-7Song - Ollsin - Duke UMd syllabus - Wilkinson -  HEALlinks - GQ Li -

Academic Departments: UIll Chicago - UMiss - Czech - purdue - OSU - U Hi - trinity Dublin - reading - Leiden - King's College - Strathclyde - Sofia - Hokaido - Nigeria - Natal - Seoul - Anadolu U -

Commercial Product Suppliers: Moore's list - essentially oils - Gritman oils - twinlab - natures herbs (twinlab) - Whole Foods Mag - PharmaPrint - ashland pharm-botan - mediherb Aust (bear) - cosmetics dir - pict, seeds & cultivation - sequential - PLThomas - arbitee - abp - liberty - chemdiv -

Legislation: Protest proposed false labeling rules DeFazio - State Health Freedoms - NHtownhall - MMiller - UK -

Problems with scientific data:

• Abstracts are often not supported by data [RM Pitkin JAMA 281:1110-1 1999]
• Evaluating clinical studies [McAlister JAMA 282:1371-7 1999]
• Why review articles on the health effects of passive smoking reach different conclusions. [Barnes DE JAMA 279:1566-70 1998]
• Comprehensiveness of Medline vs. Embase [Kleijnen J, Pharm Weekbl Sci 14(5):316-20 1992]
• 80% of 50 reviews/meta analyses about asthma treatment had serious flaws. [Jadad AR, BMJ 320:537-40 2000]
• Medical error special issue of British Medical Journal Mar 2000.   It appears to affect 2-16% of hospital admissions.
• One in 12 older people are prescribed the wrong drug. [BMJ 328: 2004; BMJmedlineabstract]
• Half the drugs that enter the market have serious adverse effects that are detected only after approval. Americans are the test population. [Okie, NEJM 352:1173 2005 PMID: 15788493]
• Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) sounds logically great but might not hold water: Bandolier - netting -
• Retractions greater about drugs than general medical reports [Samp, Pharmacotherapy 2012].

    conflict of interest:

• "Conflict of Interest" medline mesh term gives 1300 reports!
• author conflict interest medline search gives 40 reports
• 1/3 of 789 articles involved authors with financial interest in the findings [Sci & Engineering Ethics ~97]
• Of 44 articles about new cancer drugs, when the data was neutral, 30% of corporate sponsored studies gave favorable conclusions vs. 13% in nonprofit sponsored studies.   Only 5% of corporate studies provided unfavorable conclusions vs. 38% of nonprofit studies. [M. Friedberg, JAMA 282:1453-7 1999]
• New England Journal of Medicine acknowledges 19 articles in the past 3 years violated their conflict-of-interest policy which are supposed to keep manufacturer financed research out of the Drug Therapy section. [NEJM 342(8) Feb 24, 2000].
• Conflict of interest in the debate over calcium-channel antagonists. [Stelfox HT N Engl J Med. 338:101-106 1998]
• A study of manufacturer-supported trials of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in the treatment of arthritis. [Rochon PA Arch Intern Med 154:157-63 1994]
• Only 16% of 1396 highly ranked scientific and biomedical journals had conflict of interest disclosure policies. And of those, fewer than 1% of articles they published in 1997 contained any disclosures from authors. Nearly 66% of the journals contained no disclosures at all. (Tufts University in Science and Engineering Ethics 2001)
• 87% of authors of clinical practice guidelines had some form of interaction with the pharmaceutical industry: 58% had received financial support for research and 38% had served as employees or consultants. (Choudhry, JAMA 287(5) 612-7)
• citation and factual errors in 700 publications of octanol-water partition data for DDT & DDE - USGS
• many papers are false [Ioannidis PLoS Med. 2005 Aug;2(8):e124 PMID: 16060722]
• NAS medication errors [Natl Acad Press 2006].
• FDA fear amongst staff in survey: reuters -UnionConcSci -
• Tainted medicine, corruption of literature [Kassirer, LA Times Apr 6 2008]

Medical Journalism Accuracy: BMJ - Canada - mediadoctor -

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