Complementary Medicines
Warfarin interactions with complementary medicines, herbs and dietary supplements
... Warfarin is a highly efficacious oral anticoagulant agent, whose use is limited by the well founded fear of bleeding. Many complementary medicines found to have potential interaction with warfarin and these ...
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An examination of the role of the pharmacist in the safe, effective and appropriate use of complementary medicines
... about complementary medicines and therapies, but also the public and patients who use these ...how complementary therapies work — 59% of people in a study of why patients use CAM [see section ...on ...
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Alternative or complementary attitudes toward alternative and complementary medicines
... distinct medicines but was described quite globally in the present ...“alternative medicines” and “spirituality/religion” that were grouped together in our analyses as representatives of “comple- mentary ...
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Perceptions, use and attitudes of pharmacy customers on complementary medicines and pharmacy practice
... The primary aims of this project were to investigate the use, perceptions and attitudes of pharmacy customers to CMs and explore their expectations of pharmacists. CMs are popular amongst pharmacy customers with nearly 3 ...
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Nutritional Supplements and Other Complementary Medicines for Infantile Colic: A Systematic Review
... trial 85/60/58 (28:30); Wessel diagnosis; age range: 23–48 days, mean intervention 39.5 (7.2) and control 37.3 (7.7); 32 male and 36 female; 100 Infant massage: 3 times per day (2 time p[r] ...
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Factors affecting pharmacists’ recommendation of complementary medicines – a qualitative pilot study of Australian pharmacists
... Of the sample (n=12), nine respondents regularly took a CM (usually daily). In Group 1, two out of three took a CM, and none reported a family background of CM use. In Group 2, three out of five took CMs and only one had ...
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Animal based remedies as complementary medicines in Santa Cruz do Capibaribe, Brazil
... Plants and animals have been used as medicinal sources since ancient times [1-4], and even today animal and plant-based pharmacopeias continue to play an essential role in world health care [5]. The use of biological ...
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Complementary medicine use among Australian patients in an acute hospital setting: an exploratory, cross sectional study
... Currently, the most commonly recorded CMs used by Australians are single ingredient vitamins [14]. This is con- sistent with our study findings, which also revealed single ingredient vitamins (31%) to be the most ...
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Naturopaths practice behaviour: provision and access to information on complementary and alternative medicines
... of complementary medicines in Australia has become ...physician-prescribed complementary medicine in the pre- vious year[1]. These medicines are widely available from many sources including ...
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Traditional System of Medicine and Nutritional Supplementation: Use vs Regulation
... herbal medicines allow far more specific clinical claims to be made than in a jurisdiction such as the USA where dietary supplements are captured in regulations under the existing food legislation with their ...
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A survey describing the use of complementary therapies and medicines by women attending a family planning clinic
... CM medicines and therapies, and distin- guished between vitamins and mineral supplements pre- scribed or not prescribed by a ...where complementary medicines are regulated as medicines under ...
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Acupuncture for menopausal vasomotor symptoms: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
... most complementary medicines (CM) for VMS, with popular treatments such as black cohosh shown to be ineffective [15,16] and only modest benefits reported with soy ...
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Laughter and humor as complementary and alternative medicines for dementia patients
... Although modern medical science has enabled correct diagnoses to be made and proper treatments to be initi- ated for acute diseases caused by exogenous pathogenic factors, there are still numerous chronic, incurable dis- ...
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The Use of Chinese Herbal Products for Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma in Taiwan: A Population-Based Study
... 8. G. K. Dy; Bekele, L.; Hanson, L. J.; Furth, A.; Mandrekar, S.; Sloan, J.; Adjei, A. A. Complementary and alternative medicine use by patients enrolled onto phase I clinical trials. J Clin Oncol 2004, 22, ...
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Australian women's use of complementary and alternative medicines to enhance fertility: exploring the experiences of women and practitioners
... There has been a rise in the use of CAM as a health care option in recent years in Australia and overseas [10-15]. In 2004, Australians spent AUD$85 million on consulta- tions with naturopaths and herbalists, excluding ...
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COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINES AMONG RESIDENTS IN UPLAND CAVITE, PHILIPPINES: THEIR KNOWLEDGE, PATTERNS OF USE AND ATTITUDES
... One of the reasons given by respondents in this study for practicing CAM, particularly leaf extract/decoction, traditional massage and herbal tablets is due to both the abundant and availability of plants resource, a ...
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Literature review: the self-management of diet, exercise and medicine adherence of people with type 2 diabetes is influenced by their spiritual beliefs
... Caution is needed when comparing outcomes of American and British people with diabetes, owing to the different healthcare models in each country. American healthcare is funded by employers, individual insurance, or ...
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Use of complementary and alternative medicines by a sample of Turkish women for infertility enhancement: a descriptive study
... This study has several limitations including the collec- tion of data by means of the questionnaire, which intro- duced the threat of selection bias. The validity of the findings is dependent on the individual ’ s memory ...
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What has been the impact of the Traditional Herbal Registration (THR) scheme in the UK on information provided with herbal products bought over the counter?
... Chinese medicines (under which herbal med- icines are included), there are still many questions about the quality and quantity of evidence to support their use ...
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Evidence for the use of complementary and alternative medicines during fertility treatment: a scoping review
... CAM is defined by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) as a “group of diverse medical and health care systems, practices, and products that are not presently considered to be part of conventional medicine” [8]. The ...
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