Alternative and Complementary Medicine Internet Resources

• National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
  
• The Alternative Medicine Home Page (U of Pittsburgh)
  
• Alternative Medicine: Health Care Information Resources (McMaster University)
  
• Dr. Weil.com
  
• National Cancer Institute - Office of Cancer Complementary & Alternative Medicine
  
• M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (U of Texas)
  
• HerbMed - Project of the Alternative Medicine Foundation
  
• The Role of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: British Medical Journal
  
• Commonweal Cancer Project Page (site under construction)
  
• Bandolier Evidence-Based Health Care: "print and Internet journal using evidence-based medicine techniques to provide advice about particular treatments or diseases for healthcare professionals and consumers.
  • Complementary and Alternative Medicine
  • Oxford Pain Internet Site
    
• Quackwatch
  
• Health World Onlline
  
• Medlineplus Alternative Medicine
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC)-About Herbs, Botanicals & Other Products
• The Johns Hopkins Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
• University of Maryland Complementary Medicine Program

• International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements Database
• Search Strategy to Create CAM searches on PubMed
  

Selected Electronic Resources

• Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database [JHU] - Therapeutic Research - To access, Click to Login, without username or password! This database is compiled by pharmacists and physicians who are part of the Pharmacist's Letter and Prescriber's Letter research and editorial staff. They evaluate natural medicines by the same scientific criteria that they have used for 15 years to evaluate regular prescription and non-prescription drugs. This is the most comprehensive, scientifically-based, and practical database on natural medicines available anywhere. This database is updated daily.
  
• BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine [*] [FREE] 2001 - (PubMed Central)
  
• Journal of Natural Products
  
• Alternative Medicine News Online
  
• Index to Chiropractic Literature 1985-2001 - Bibliographic citations produced by the Chiropractic Library Consortium (CLIBCON: a group of health science librarians working in chiropractic colleges throughout the world whose goal is to improve access to the chiropractic literature.
  
• The International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS): produced by the Office of Dietary Supplements, National Institutes of Health, in conjunction with the Food and Nutrition Information Center, National Agricultural Library, United States Department of Agriculture. IBIDS contains bibliographic records, including abstracts published in international scientific journals on the topic of dietary supplements, including vitamins, minerals, herbal and botanical supplements.
  
• Online Archive of American Folk Medicine Researchers a the University of California, Los Angeles have systematically documented beliefs and practices relating to folk medicine and alternative healthcare. In order to make the data more readily available to the worldwide community of researchers and medical practitioners, this Archive was established in 1996 under the direction of Dr. Michael Owen Jones, a professor of folklore and history at UCLA.
  
• Agricultural Research Services Databases
  
• DATADIWAN
  
• More Resources.....

Last updated: August 30, 2006, Laurie Davidson