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Government Resources: Alternative
Medicine Resources
- Canada
- Italy
- United Kingdom
- United Kingdon, House of Lords, Science and Technology Committee
Publications, Sixth Report November 28, 2000
Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- Food Standards Agency:
"independent food safety watchdog set up by an Act of Parliament
in 2000 to protect the public's health and consumer interests in
relation to food"
- United States
- American Association
for Health Freedom "educate consumers, health professionals
and policy makers about the value, safety and efficacy of alternative
and complementary modalities, to facilitate optimal health, prevent
and treat disease; actively promote awareness and acceptance of
alternative and complementary therapies, as well as health freedom
issues; litigate, as necessary, to protect the rights of consumers,
in particular their right to access the full range of therapies,
and to protect the rights of practitioners to make those therapies
available without threat of censure, harassment or sanctions"
- California
Health Freedom Coalition: working to protect freedom of
access to alternative health care in California
- Commission on Dietary
Supplement Labels
- Federal Trade
Commission Consumer Information
- Health Freedom
States, Foundation for the Advancement of Innovative
Medicine: "list of states with laws protecting patient access to
alternative therapies from licensed physicians"
- National Association of
Attorneys General
- United States Department
of Health and Human Services
- Alternative
Medicine, Healthfinder
- National Institutes of
Health
- Alternative
Medicine: Expanding Medical Horizons, A Report
to the National Institutes of Health on Alternative Medical
Systems and Practices in the United States, prepared under
the auspices of the Workshop on Alternative Medicine, Chantilly,
Virginia September 14-16, 1992
- Consensus
Development Program Statements
- Health Information,
National Institutes of Health: publications, consumer health
information, clearinghouses, health hotlines, consensus
statements, rare diseases, and clinical alerts.
- National Cancer
Institute cancer.gov
- National Center for
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)
- National
Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
(NIDDK)
- Office of Behavioral
and Social Sciences Research
- Office
of Dietary Supplements (ODS)
- National Institute
of Environmental Health Sciences
- National Institute
of Mental Health
- National Library
of Medicine (NLM)
- Acupuncture,
Current Bibliographies in Medicine 97-6, January 1970
through October 1997. 2302 Citations. Prepared by Lori
J. Klein, M.A.L.S., National Library of Medicine, Alan
I. Trachtenberg, M.D., M.P.H., National Institute on
Drug Abuse 1997 October.
- ClinicalTrials.gov:
locate current information on disease treatment at particular
institution or by a disease, drug, modality, therapy
or procedure. Does contain complementary and alternative
medicine therapies [search by words: alternative (medicine
or therapy) or complementary (medicine or therapy) or
by particular modality: acupuncture or by a particular
substance: ginko or shark cartilage
- MEDLINEplus,
NLM's consumer health site
- Bioavailability
of Nutrients and Other Active Components of Dietary
Supplements January 1966 through October
1999, Current Bibliographies in Medicine 99-4
- FAQ-
Dietary Supplements, Complementary or Alternative Medicines
- MEDLINE PubMed
- Office of Extramural Research
- CRISP
(Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects)
database of federally funded biomedical research projects
conducted at universities, hospitals, and other research
institutions. These projects are funded by theNational
Institutes of Health (NIH), Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services (SAMHSA), Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA), Food and Drug Administration
(FDA), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP),
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and
Office of Assistant Secretary of Health (OASH)
- Office
of Technology Assessment
- United States Food
and Drug Administration (FDA)
- White House Commission
on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy - Final
Report - March 2002
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