Integrative medicine

Traditional herbal (Kampo) medicines have been used since ancient times to treat patients with mental disorders. In the present report, we describe four patients with dysthymia successfully treated with Kampo medicines: Kamiuntanto (KUT). These four patients fulfilled the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) criteria for dysthymic disorder...

Today’s medicine is in the midst of an undeniable crisis. Calls to reform healthcare are in the forefront of economic and political discussions worldwide. Economic pressures reduce the amount of time physicians can spend with patients contributing to burnout among medical staff and endangering the patient iatrogenically. Politicians are getting...

We present three rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients successfully treated with traditional herbal medicine (THM: Kampo). The treatment with THM resulted in a decrease in RA disease activity such as DAS28, as well as in the serum levels of anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibodies (anti-CCP) in 3 cases. These observations suggest that...

Christine Patterson1 and Heather Arthur21School of Nursing Faculty of Health Sciences McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. 2Cardiovascular Nursing Research Faculty of Health Sciences School of Nursing McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.AbstractLimited information exists on how adolescents decide to use complementary/alternative medicine (CAM). There are also no instruments specific to CAM,...

Ping-Chung Leung Institute of Chinese Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HKSAR.Abstract Longevity is a blessing as long as good health is not lost. However, the tendency to have a decline on normal physiological activities is inevitable because of the natural processes of degeneration at all levels: molecular, cellular...

Stacey Cornish and Lewis Mehl-Madrona University of Saskatchewan College of Medicine, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Rachel L. Ruhlen1, Grace Y. Sun2 and Edward R. Sauter1 From the Departments of Surgery1 and Biochemistry2, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, U.S.A. Abstract The Women’s Health Initiative found that  combination estrogen and progesterone hormone replacement therapy increases breast cancer and cardiovascular disease risk, which compelled many...

Chris Patterson1 and Heather M. Arthur2 1McMaster University, School of Nursing, Rm 2J21b, 1200 Main St. West, Hamilton, ON, L8N 3Z5. 2Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario Chair in Cardiovascular Nursing Research McMaster University, Rm 2J29, 1200 Main St. West, Hamilton, ON, L8N 3Z5. Abstract Over the...

Margaret A. White1, Marja J. Verhoef2, B.J. Davison3, Hal Gunn4 and Karen Cooke5 1Research Associate, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 2Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 3Department of Urologic Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. 4InspireHealth, Vancouver, Canada. 5Research...

Thuong Tran Phan1, See Huey Heng1, Damien Abarno1, Ross Allan McKinnon1 and Suong Ngoc Thi Ngo1,2 1Sansom Institute, School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia. 2School of Science and Primary Industries, Charles Darwin University, Casuarina Campus, Building 42, Darwin, NT 0909, Australia.Abstract: It...

Michael S. Goldstein1, Jennifer H. Lee2, Hal Morgenstern3, Rachel Ballard-Barbash4, E. Richard Brown5, An-Fu Hsiao6 and Roshan Bastani7 1Dept. of Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles 2Dept of community Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles 3Dept. of Epidemiology, School...

Mayadah B. Shehadeh1, Fatma U. Afifi1 and Sawsan M. Abu-Hamdah2 1Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Jordan, Queen Rania Street, 11942 Amman, Jordan. 2Department of Pharmacology, University of Durham, U.K.Abstract: From the aerial parts of Ruta chalepensis L., grown in Jordan, two furanocoumarins (bergapten and chalepensin), one...

James Giordano1,2 and Wayne Jonas2,3 1Center for Clinical Bioethics, and Division of Palliative Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C. 20057, U.S.A. 2Samueli Institute, Alexandria, VA 22314, U.S.A. 3Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD.Abstract: In this essay, we posit that modern medicine, in its Asclepian focus, has subordinated...

Glenn Leshner1, I-Huei Cheng2, Hyun Joo Song3, Yoonhyueng Choi4 and Cynthia Frisby1 1Associate professors in journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia. 2Assistant professor in advertising and public relations at the University of Alabama. 3Received his Ph.D. in journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia. 4Assistant professor in advertising, public relations, and...

Ernest Rossi1, Kathryn Rossi2, Garret Yount3, Mauro Cozzolino4 and Salvador Iannotti5 1Professor of Neuroscience, U.S.A. 2Professor of Psychology and Psychotherapy, U.S.A. 3Director of molecular biology laboratory at the California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute in San Francisco, California, U.S.A. 4Professor of General Psychology at the University of Salerno where he...

George Marakis1, Ann F. Walker1, Hugh C.R. Simpson2, Martyn Byng3 and Paul A. Robinson41Hugh Sinclair Unit of Human Nutrition, School of Chemistry, Food Biosciences & Pharmacy, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom. 2Diabetes Centre, RBH & Battle Hospital NHS Trust, Melrose House West, Reading, United Kingdom. 3Department of Applied Statistics,...

Chwan-Li Shen1, Du Feng2, M. Christina R. Esperat2, Brian K. Irons3, Ming-C. Chyu1,4, Gloria M. Valdez1 and Eve Y. Thompson11Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, 2School of Nursing, and 3School of Pharmacy, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, 4Department of Health, Exercise, and Sport Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas.Abstract:...