To avoid disfiguration 88.79% (103) patients perceived to use
alternative medicine. Why the respondents took alternative he mean duration of use alternative medicine was 2.9[+ or -]4.7 ranges (1 week to 24 months), 92.24% (107) respondents perceived that by using alternative medicine there would no need of operation, and saw t medicine, they explained as same as their perceptions on use of alternative medicine, 24.32% (27) respondents said that doctor gave their challenge that it would be cured.
'After several years of schooling, there will be an examination they need to pass and those who will qualify will have a license to practice
alternative medicine. Some of our neighboring Asian nations that have been advocating traditional medicine are very advanced, thus, giving their people more health-care options.'
Trust in physicians 328(62.7%) and distrust in alternative medicine therapists 317(73%) were the most prevalent reasons for using conventional treatments and not using
alternative medicine.This is not the first time that the editors of the New England Journal of Medicine have allowed the publication of a "hit job" against
alternative medicine. In contrast, I have never seen an editorial in that journal arguing that all of conventional medicine is horrible because some doctor made a lot of money from unnecessary surgery or from some other unscrupulous activity.
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) welcomes six new members to the National Advisory Council for Complementary and
Alternative Medicine. The council serves as the principal advisory body to NCCAM, the lead federal agency for research on complementary medicine, and a component of the National Institutes of Health.
Princess Haya said the Authority found through a survey that over 55 per cent of people in the UAE were already using
alternative medicine.BAHRAIN is to bring in tough new regulations to monitor the use and sale of
alternative medicine. The sector is largely unregulated and could be open to abuse, said National Health Regulatory Authority chief executive officer Dr Baha Eldin Fateha.
Fundamentals of Complementary and
Alternative Medicine. 4th Edition.
Complementary or
alternative medicine. Retrieved from http://www.merck.com/ pubs/mmanual_ha/sec2/ch07/ch07a.html
After he tried modern medicine without success, he decided to try
alternative medicine. It helped him.
In an earlier statement Al-Baddah said: "Alternative medicines that have not been approved by the Saudi Food and Drugs Administration (SFDA) could lead to people losing their lives." He made the comments at a speech he delivered in Riyadh entitled "Wrong Practices in
Alternative Medicine."
Briggs, MD, director of the National Center for Complementary and
Alternative Medicine.Use of alternative therapy was not associated with changing standard medical therapy but the study was notable for demonstrating that women who initiated the use of alternative medicine after surgery reported a worse quality of life than women who never used
alternative medicine. Mental health scores were similar at baseline among women who decided to use alternative medicine compared to those who did not, but 3 months after surgery the use of alternative medicine was independently associated with depression, fear of recurrence of cancer, lower scores for mental health and sexual satisfaction, and more physical symptoms, as well as symptoms of greater intensity.
Jay Butler, chief medical officer for the State of Alaska, says two-thirds of those over the age of 50 use some form of complementary or
alternative medicine. He suspects that part of the reason for this is that they are having a difficult time finding a physician who will see them because of the nationwide shortage of doctors.
In fact there is no such thing as
alternative medicine. There is only medicine that works and medicine that doesn't.
