alternative medicine

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Kurt Donsbach – Introduction

Kurt Walter Donsbach (born c. 1936) is an unlicensed chiropractor, and a controversial alternative medicine figure who has been convicted of practicing medicine without a license. He is currently facing charges of misbranding drugs for sale, grand theft, unlawfully dispensing drugs as a cure for cancer, and falsely representing a cure for cancer. Adapted from [...]

Edzard Ernst – Introduction

Edzard Ernst (January 30, 1948 in Wiesbaden, Germany) is the first Professor of Complementary Medicine in the United Kingdom. In 1993, Ernst left his chair in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PMR) at the University of Vienna to set up the department of Complementary Medicine at the University of Exeter. He became director of complementary medicine [...]

Eye exercises – Behavioral Optometrists use of eye exercises

Practitioners in Behavioral optometry (also known as ”Functional optometrists” or ”optometric vision therapists”) practice methods that have been characterized as a complementary alternative medicine practice. A review in 2000 concluded that there were insufficient controlled studies of the approach and a 2008 review concluded that “a large majority of behavioural management approaches are not evidence-based, [...]

Breast cancer treatment – Systemic therapy

Systemic therapy uses medications to treat cancer cells throughout the body. Any combination of systemic treatments may be used to treat breast cancer. Systemic treatments include chemotherapy, immune therapy, and hormonal therapy. Chemotherapy Chemotherapy (drug treatment for cancer) may be used before surgery, after surgery, or instead of surgery for those cases in which surgery [...]

California Mental Health Services Act – Pharmaceutical industry influence

Few, if any, representatives of the pharmaceutical industry have openly participated in the town hall and stakeholder meetings during 2005. Many mental health clients and family members have requested easier access to less expensive medications during the initial stakeholder outreach process, while a similar number have expressed interest in alternative medicine options. Adapted from the [...]

Committee for Skeptical Inquiry – Activities

According to CSI’s charter, in order to carry out its major objectives the Committee: # maintains a network of people interested in critically examining paranormal, fringe science, and other claims, and in contributing to consumer education; # prepares bibliographies of published materials that carefully examine such claims; # encourages research by objective and impartial inquiry [...]

Kinesis Myofascial Integration – Introduction

Kinesis Myofascial Integration is a form of Structural Integration (a form of alternative medicine). Known as KMI for short, it is a multi-session protocol of 3 or 12 sessions. It involved sensitively-applied deep tissue manipulation combined with movement education. KMI Structural Integration is designed to restore structural balance, ease of movement, and a feeling of [...]

Lyme disease – Treatment

Antibiotics are the primary treatment for Lyme disease; the most appropriate antibiotic treatment depends upon the patient and the stage of the disease. The antibiotics of choice are doxycycline (in adults), amoxicillin (in children), erythromycin (for pregnant women) and ceftriaxone, with treatment lasting 14 to 28 days. Alternative choices are cefuroxime and cefotaxime. Treatment of [...]

Health freedom movement – Introduction

health freedom movement is used to describe the loose coalition of organizations, consumers, activists, alternative medicine practitioners and producers of products around the world who are campaigning for unhindered freedom of choice in healthcare. The movement is critical of the pharmaceutical industry and medical regulators, and uses the term “health freedom” as a catch phrase [...]

Urea – Uses

Agriculture More than 90% of world production of urea is destined for use as a nitrogen-release fertilizer. Urea has the highest nitrogen content of all solid nitrogenous fertilizers in common use (Therefore, it has the lowest transportation costs per unit of nitrogen nutrient. Many soil bacteria possess the enzyme, urease, which catalyzes the conversion of [...]

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