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• NIH National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine

  http://nccam.nih.gov/

  The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine conducts and supports research, trains CAM researchers, and provides information about CAM.

• NCCAM Newsletter

  http://nccam.nih.gov/news/newsletter/

• Duke University Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health

  http://www.spiritualityandhealth.duke.edu/

  The Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health is based in the Center for Aging at Duke and provides opportunities for scholarly trans-disciplinary conversation and the development of collaborative research initiatives.

  
  

• MD Anderson Complementary and Integrative Medicine and Its Use in Cancer Care

  http://www.mdanderson.org/departments/cimer/

  M. D. Anderson Cancer Center’s Complementary/Integrative Medicine Education Resources (CIMER) Web site is offered to help patients and physicians decide how best to integrate such therapies into their care.

• Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine

  http://www.imconsortium.org/

  The mission of the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine is to help transform medicine and healthcare through rigorous scientific studies, new models of clinical care, and innovative educational programs that integrate biomedicine, the complexity of human beings, the intrinsic nature of healing and the rich diversity of therapeutic systems. Its membership currently includes 42 highly esteemed academic medical centers.

• National Center for Homeopathy

  http://homeopathic.org/

  The National Center for Homeopathy is an open-membership organization whose mission is to promote health through homeopathy.

• International Society for Complementary Medicine Research

  http://www.iscmr.org/

  The International Society for Complementary Medicine Research is a worldwide not-for-profit professional association devoted to fostering co-operative and multidisciplinary research and development as well as the application of knowledge in the fields of Complementary, Traditional and Integrated Medicine.

• The New Medicine

  http://www.thenewmedicine.org/

  The New Medicine – a two-hour documentary that premiered March 29 on PBS (check local listings for future broadcasts) – explores a burgeoning movement taking place in hospitals and clinics across the country: integrating the best of high-tech medicine with a new attitude that recognizes it is essential to the healing process to treat the patient as a whole person, and not a cog in an assembly line. This is the website for the show.

• AMSA Pocket CAM Handbook

  http://www.amsa.org/ICAM/camhandbook.pdf

  A pocket CAM handbook created by AMSA’s Humanistic Medicine Action Committee (HuMed), 2006-2007.

• 2002 Report of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy

  http://www.whccamp.hhs.gov/finalreport.html

• Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the United States (2005)

  http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309092701&page=1#pagetop

  Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the United States (2005) Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (HPDP)

• Functional Medicine INSPIRER

  http://www.functionalmedicine.org/news/newsletters.asp

  Newsletter of the Institute of Functional Medicine

• Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine (Journal)

  http://www.alternative-therapies.com

  Launched in 1995, Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine was the first journal in its field to be indexed in the National Library of Medicine. It provides a scientific forum for sharing information concerning the practical use of emerging therapies in healthcare to promote health, prevent illness, and treat disease. In both 2006 and 2007, ATHM had the highest impact factor ranking of any independently published peer-reviewed CAM journal in the United States—meaning that its research articles were cited more frequently than any other journal’s in the field.

• DrWeil.com

  http://www.drweil.com/

  Weil Lifestyle, LLC, is an organization founded with the mandate of providing an ethical funding platform to support the Weil Foundation. Its mission is to be the leading resource for education, information, products, services and philanthropic contributions based on the principles of integrative medicine. Headquartered in Phoenix, Ariz., Weil Lifestyle, LLC, is the owner of the Web site www.drweil.com and the exclusive worldwide licensor of distinctive products and services that are developed, reviewed and approved by Dr. Andrew Weil.

• University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine

  http://integrativemedicine.arizona.edu/

  The Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine is leading the transformation of healthcare by creating, educating & actively supporting a community that embodies the philosophy and practice of healing-oriented medicine, addressing mind, body and spirit.

• Rosenthal Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at Columbia University

  http://www.rosenthal.hs.columbia.edu/

  The Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at Columbia University builds bridges between diverse therapeutic traditions and modern medicine. We promote a more inclusive medical system by using scientific inquiry to ensure that the valuable health practices of other cultures are better understood and integrated with Western medical practices.

• American Holistic Medical Association

  http://www.holisticmedicine.org/

   The AHMA was founded in 1978 to unite licensed physicians who practice holistic medicine. It is the oldest holistic medicine organization of its kind, and many of today's national leaders in holistic medicine got their start as members of the AHMA.

• American Academy of Medical Acupuncture

  http://medicalacupuncture.org/

  The purpose of the American Academy of Medical Acupuncture is to promote the integration of concepts from traditional and modern forms of acupuncture with Western medical training and thereby synthesize a more comprehensive approach to health care.

• The Nurse Healers - Professional Associates International (NH-PAI)

  http://www.therapeutic-touch.org

  The mission of The Nurse Healers - Professional Associates International (NH-PAI) is to lead, inspire and advance excellence in Krieger and Kunz Therapeutic Touch SM as a healing practice and lifeway.

• Medline Plus

  http://medlineplus.gov
  

• MedlinePlus: Drugs and Supplements

  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.html