In this post I describe the divergent perspectives of the dominant biomedical model of mental health care used in industrialized countries, and the increasing trend in the use of so-called ...

The alternative medicine industry is expanding rapidly, fueled in large part by the surge of health-related content on social media. This growing trend has become an increasing concern for oncology ...

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) treatments are popular among cancer patients; some estimates indicate that as many as half of all patients use some sort of these therapies before and ...

Rising CAM use: CAM use among U.S. kids jumped from 4.6% in 2007 to 17.7% in 2022, with the biggest growth in ages 4–11. Mixed acupuncture results: A large U.S. trial found acupuncture modestly ...

Treatment with CAM resulted in a lower 5-year survival (60.1%) than treatment with traditional therapy (85.4%) or a combination of the 2 modalities (81.2%) Women who received complementary and ...

Patients who received a combination of traditional therapies and complementary and alternative medicine were less likely to receive endocrine therapy and radiation versus patients treated exclusively ...

The combination of traditional therapies and CAM was associated with a higher mortality compared with being treated exclusively with traditional therapy. HealthDay News — While uncommon, use of ...