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Complementary Therapies (17):
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Complementary Therapies
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Premenstrual syndrome is defined as recurrent moderate psychological and physical symptoms that occur during the luteal phase of menses and resolve with menstruation. It affects 20 to 32 percent of premenopausal women. Women with premenstrual dysphoric disorder experience affective o...
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PMID: 22010771
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Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease that disproportionately affects women of childbearing age during their most productive years. Current therapeutic measures have improved patient survival; however, the impact of interventions on general and specific domains...
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PMID: 21633837
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American Family Physician (82)11 2010
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Cough is the most common symptom bringing patients to the primary care physician's office, and acute bronchitis is usually the diagnosis in these patients. Acute bronchitis should be differentiated from other common diagnoses, such as pneumonia and asthma, because these conditions may need specific...
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PMID: 21121518
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Toxic hepatitis or drug-induced liver injury (DILI) encompasses a spectrum of conditions ranging from mild biochemical abnormalities to acute liver failure. Recent studies report that 35% to 48% of patients with diabetes use some form of complementary and alternative medical therapy. Moreover, >800...
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PMID: 20856101
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The American Journal of Medicine (123)11 2010
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The use of complementary and alternative therapies for depression is an issue of growing interest for practitioners who care for women. Postpartum depression is a serious and debilitating illness that affects many women, their infants, and families. Often, women do not report feelings of sadness or...
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PMID: 21053788
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ONS connect (25)11 2010
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ONS connect (25)11 2010
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Medical Economics (87)20 2010
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Scientific American (303)4 2010
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Hot flashes are very common in women in menopause and can have a detrimental effect on quality of life. Women on risk reduction therapy are particularly prone because treatments, such as tamoxifen, raloxifene, or oophorectomy, have the potential to exacerbate these symptoms. Hormonal...
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PMID: 20971841
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Hot flashes are very common in women in menopause and can have a detrimental effect on quality of life. Women on risk reduction therapy are particularly prone because treatments, such as tamoxifen, raloxifene, or oophorectomy, have the potential to exacerbate these symptoms. Hormonal...
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PMID: 20971841
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Southern Medical Journal (103)9 2010
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Southern Medical Journal (103)9 2010
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Rural Mozambican subjects exhibited improved audition and/or visual acuity subsequent to PIP. The magnitude of measured effects exceeds that reported in previous suggestion and hypnosis studies. Future study seems warranted to assess whether PIP may be a useful adjunct to standard medical care for c...
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PMID: 20686441
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Complementary and alternative medicine is an increasingly popular form of health intervention used by millions of people in the UK each year. The demand for such therapies has seen their use grow and many have been adopted by district nurses as a supplement to the treatment and care they provide the...
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PMID: 20852526
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Numerous methods based on very different concepts are available to treat children with dyslexia. Basically, symptomatic and causal principles can be distinguished. Among the symptomatic methods are systematic programmes based on learning theory, in which reading and spelling or precursors of these a...
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PMID: 20809469
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Nursing Economics (28)4 2010
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As many as 120 persons per million people in the United States are dependent on the lifelong, complex, technology-based care of home parenteral nutrition (HPN) infusions. However, data for costs paid by families for HPN-related health care services and for non-reimbursed expenditures are rarely tabul...
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PMID: 21625407
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Consumer Reports (75)7 2010
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So far there has been no consensus on the criteria which confirm the validity of scientific contributions in conventional medicine (CM) and complementary/ alternative medicine (CAM). An interdisciplinary group of experts from various disciplines within each of the areas of medicine held six well-doc...
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PMID: 20648411
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Postgraduate Medicine (122)4 2010
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Depressive disorders are highly prevalent and are a leading cause of disability, morbidity, and mortality worldwide; however, they often remain undertreated or untreated. This article provides a broad overview of the many strategies for treating depression. More than 24 antidepressant medications an...
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PMID: 20675972
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Oncology Nursing Forum (37)4 2010
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Care practices from alternative medicine or Western medicine vary for breast cancer survivors. Many factors influence their selection decisions about care practices. INTERPRETATION: Nurses should be concerned about what care practices mean to breast cancer survivors. Further research should be consi...
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PMID: 20591809
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Military Medicine (175)7 2010
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503 volunteers were surveyed with a response rate of 73% (n = 369). A total of 50.7% reported using at least one CAM therapy within the last year. CAM use was significantly higher among women, Caucasians, and a college level education or greater. CONCLUSION: Prevalence of CAM use is higher within a...
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PMID: 20684460
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Overall CAM use differed significantly by asthma status, with 49% of those with asthma episodes using CAM compared with 42% of those who did not have an episode in the past year. Self-care based therapies were more likely to be used than practitioner-based therapies by individuals with single comorb...
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PMID: 20690319
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The potential use of alternatives to allograft corneal transplantation surgery has been described by corneal surgeons around the world. These techniques consist of nonsurgical interventions like contact lens fitting. Surgical alternatives include excimer laser phototherapeutic keratectomy, optical i...
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PMID: 20560170
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MMW Fortschritte der Medizin (152)22 2010
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Functional abdominal pain (FAP) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) are among the most commonly diagnosed medical problems in pediatrics. Symptom-based Rome III criteria for FAP and IBS have been validated and help the clinician in making a positive diagnosis. The majority of patients with mild compl...
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PMID: 20528117
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A team approach is efficient in palliative care for cancer patients. People suffered from cancer have a right to receive high-quality palliative care earlier in cancer treatment. In Japan the National Act for Strategy against Cancer was enacted in 2007. Systematic educational programs supported by t...
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PMID: 20535973
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Archives of Dermatology (146)6 2010
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The use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in Switzerland is rather high, and therefore, the occurrence of accidental intakes of CAM remedies by children and associated intoxications is to be expected. In the present study, the inquiries to the Swiss Toxicological Information Centre tha...
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PMID: 19823869
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Journal of Asthma (47)5 2010
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CAM use is common among adults with asthma. It is associated with financial barriers to asthma care and poor asthma control. Physicians should discuss CAM use with their asthma patients....
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PMID: 20536278
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A review of randomized controlled trials for commonly used CAM treatments such as omega-3 fatty acids, St John's wort (Hypericum), folate, S-adenosyl-L-methionine (SAMe), acupuncture, light therapy, exercise, and mindfulness psychotherapies revealed promising results. More rigorous and larger studie...
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PMID: 20573326
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Participants in CAM trials were more likely to be female and to have a lower placebo-response rate compared to those in standard antidepressant trials for MDD. Trials of standard antidepressants and CAM therapies were composed of patients with similar depression severity.
2010 Physicians Postgraduat...
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PMID: 20573327
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Mayo Clinic Health Letter (Suppl) 2010
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Versicherungsmedizin / herausgegeben von Verband der Lebensversicherungs-Unternehmen e.V. und Verband der Privaten Krankenversicherung e.V (62)2 2010
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There is growing interest in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) amongst the general population. Little information is available on CAM use in otolaryngology patients in the UK. Despite concerns over safety, efficacy and cost-effectiveness, CAM use is common amongst ENT patients. Patients p...
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PMID: 19771443
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Ciencia and Saude Coletiva (15 Suppl 1) 2010
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The objective of this article is to evaluate the use of complementary therapies by mothers in their children. A cross-sectional and descriptive study with 202 mothers of children that attended an University Hospital were interviewed. The variables analyzed were: use of complementary therapies/reason...
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PMID: 20640288
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The current study aimed to (1) describe communication patterns between oncologists and breast cancer patients regarding the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and (2) assess the relationship between CAM discussions and anxiety levels.
Interaction anal...
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PMID: 20462858
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Previous research has indicated that treatment staff often underestimate the informational needs of cancer patients. In this study, the authors determined the total number of information sources obtained and used to influence treatment decisions, and the clinical and demographic factors associated w...
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PMID: 20574881
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The prevalence of complementary and alternative medicine use was 67.8 per cent. Patients who used complementary and alternative medicine were more likely to be female, better educated and younger, compared with non-users. A total of 82.5 per cent (52/63) perceived complementary and alternative medic...
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PMID: 20163747
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Anticancer Research (30)5 2010
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I (randomised controlled trials [RCTs]) or level II (epidemiological cohort studies), in accordance with recommendations of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, University of Oxford, UK. Evidence-based treatment of cancer follows recommendations of international expert panels and includes indicat...
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PMID: 20592376
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Despite incontrovertible evidence that vaccines do not cause autism, some parents continue to refuse them and many parents of children with autism seek hope in unproven and potentially harmful complementary and alternative (CAM) approaches. This commentary explores the reasons for such behaviors and...
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PMID: 20453581
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New Zealand Medical Journal (123)1313 2010
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The high prevalence of pain in the elderly, combined with the risk of side effects of many pain medications for older patients, often has both patient and practitioner looking to alternative strategies to manage pain. Patients are increasingly using forms of complementary and alternative medicine--s...
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PMID: 20497927
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The search identified 78 original papers; 36 directly related to discussing CAM. No randomized controlled trials specifically addressing the methods or benefits of discussing CAM were identified. Evidence based guidelines are presented as a sequence of recommended steps: (1) Elicit the person's unde...
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PMID: 19783116
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Fatigue is a common and distressing symptom that is a concern for cancer patients, their families, carers and health professionals. Cancer-related fatigue is a multidimensional phenomenon that is self-perceived and includes physical, emotional, cognitive and behavioural components. It can be unrelen...
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PMID: 20453821
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The practising midwife (13)5 2010
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