Alternative Medicine Repertory

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Alternative Health News Online is prepared by journalists for the public and aims at helping us to separate the hogwash from the promising therapies in alternative medicine. It is updated daily and covers topics such as diet and nutrition, mind/body control, alternative medical systems, manual healing and longevity. It offers a free, weekly e-mail newsletter, bulletins and alerts on health news and a column of reviewed and recommended books on alternative health care. It also offers links to other sources of health information on the Internet. This is a great place to begin -- and to come back to -- when searching for alternative health information on the Internet!

Repertory with many links to sites presenting information or formation in the field of alternative, holistic and natural medicine and well-being. Lists of therapists are also presented.

CAMline is an evidence-based website on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) for healthcare professionals and the public, with a Canadian perspective. CAMline is a collaborative project overseen by a Steering Committee of the five organizations which are its founders: the Ontario College of Family Physicians, the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto, the Ontario Branch of Society of Hospital Pharmacists, the Michener Institute for Applied Health Sciences and the Friends of Alternative & Complelentary Therapies Society. All are based in Toronto, ON. It offers access to evidence-based information on natural health products, CAM therapies and practitioners and health conditions along with a small dictionary of terms used in complementary and alternative medicine. There is brief information about the founding partners and their funding sources. All come from the various disciplines of allopathic, traditional medicine and medical practice.

The *FACTs: Friends of Alternative & Complementary Therapeutics Society is a non-profit community organization devoted to the promotion of credible and accessible information in the area of alternative and complementary medicine and health. The group wants to create a repository of health information that is factual, accessible, credible and ethical. The information [will come] ... from different schools of medicine and different cultures. These diverse resources will provide us with multiple healthcare options, and it will lead us to a healthier future. While other groups are active in advocacy, service delivery, research or teaching, our goal is to promote learning activities on alternative and complementary medicine through various media. Established in Toronto in early 1998, FACT will expand to other cities across Canada, with a national launch slated for the year 2000.

The *Health Action Network Society , also known as HANS, of Burnaby, BC, is a non-profit society accepting individual memberships. Their website offers lots of information regarding alternative therapies and practitioners in Canada.

The *HealthWorld Online Village, although not entirely composed of references to alternative and complementary therapies, has such a wide range and so many good explanations of unconventional therapies presented cheek-by-jowl with standard allopathic treatments and topics that it has to be presented here so that you won't miss it. Resources for consumers and health care professionals in the whole panorama of health care interests are available here: from acupuncture, through aromatherapy and flower medicine, to spas and retreats where you can rest and relax in a health-enhancing way.

The *Holistic Healing Web Page offers a great variety of web resources in alternative health care in a number of classes. There are web documents on various sorts of healing, a list of Usenet groups and listserv discussion groups (or mailing lists) of interest in holistic health care, case histories of people using alternative therapies, and a collection of information about conferences, retreats and trade shows. The site aims to present ideas about therapy that can be discussed with an individual's health care provider and is a great collection of diverse ideas and sources.

By definition an infoholic is someone who cannot obtain enough information. The world of COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE is an infoholic's paradise. For within this world there is to be discovered a stunning, treasure trove of diversity, yielding wonderous and life-changing opportunities. Within the pages of this FREE DIRECTORY of COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE you will discover worldwide connections to many different forms of healing and enlightenment. Each category is accompanied by an introduction to the therapy. The entries are colour coded, according to the world map.

The *Research Council for Complementary Medicine (RCCM) is a British charity which carries out, promotes and evaluates rigorous research in complementary medicine to encourage safe, effective practice and improved patient care. The RCCM exists not just to educate, to inform or to research but primarily to ensure that the patients are offered treatments that have been show to be effective, treatment that is safe. It is the well-being of patients that is ultimately at stake. The RCCM believes that: research of the highest scientific rigour, supported by reliable information, is essential if complementary options of healthcare are to be made more widely available. The RCCM maintains a database -- the Centralised Information Service for Complementary Medicine (CISCOM) -- of over 60,000 references to the literature of complementary medicine which can be searched for you by contacting them; there is a charge for the service. A small collection of citations to randomised trials in various areas of complementary medicine is available on the website. The RCCM is also involved in creating and maintaining a registry and archive of randomised trials in complementary medicine for the Cochrane Collaboration Field in Complementary Medicine. This work is supported by the U.S. NCCAM, through the University of Maryland. The RCCM is active in medical education in the U.K., as well.

The literature on clinical and scientific research into alternative medicine treatments is widely scattered, as is background information on alternative medicine systems and approaches. The following is a compilation of established research resources in the USA, Europe and Asia, designed to facilitate research by both professionals and the public. This may be clinical, biomedical, review, meta-analytical or survey research. The listing is hyperlinked to existing Web sites where available, and to brief information on the resource, such as: how to obtain further details; type of literature covered; whether fee-based access or free; size of the holding; and mode of access.