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Complementary Medicine and Therapies

Getting Started

If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:

Journal Articles

For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.

Journal Articles: 
Access Pharmacy AccessPharmacy from McGraw-Hill is an online curricular resource designed to meet the demands of pharmacy education. A flexible resource, AccessPharmacy allows students to select a core curriculum topic, browse by organ system, review textbooks, or search across leading pharmacy online references.
Database of citations and abstracts for physicians, therapists, medical researchers and clinicians of information about alternative treatments to conventional medicine.
A comprehensive database for life science and biomedical research. It consists of Biological Abstracts, an index to the journal literature in experimental, pure and field life sciences and non-clinical literature in the biomedical sciences. BA is supplemented by BA-RRM which lists reports, reviews, meetings, and conference proceedings.
Contains citations to journal articles related to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Developed jointly by NCCAM and the National Library of Medicine, it is a subset of PubMed.
Office of Dietary Supplements and the National Library of Medicine (NLM) partnered to create this Dietary Supplement Subset of NLM's PubMed. PubMed provides access to citations from the MEDLINE database and additional life science journals. It also includes links to many full-text articles at journal Web sites and other related Web resources.
Natural Standard was founded by healthcare providers and researchers to provide high-quality, evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies. Grades reflect the level of available scientific data for or against the use of each therapy for a specific medical condition.

Specialised Resources

Specialised Resources: