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On Health This site provides an
excellent combination of news and permanent resources. The news area features Daily Air
Quality and Pollen Report for 50 U.S. Cities, and Reuters health information services,
updated daily. The user can tailor the site to activities in his/her local area by
selecting the nearest city from a menu. CAUTION: This site will disable your "back" button. Bookmark this page if you want to return here.
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Holistic Internet Community Learning
Center A list of about 75 brief (less than 800 word) essays on virtually every area of alternative medicine, written from a clinical and anecdotal perspective by practitioners. Contains a searchable directory of holistic care practitioners, most of whom are located in the New England area of the U.S.
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Ask Doctor Weil Dr. Andrew Weil
has become America's health guru and has teamed with Dr. Holly Atkinson (who operates The
Women's Clinic here) to provide a highly useful interactive site. Weil also provides addresses for referrals by private practitioners in the areas of
Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine, Ayurvedic Medicine, Biofeedback, Feldenkrais Work,
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NIH Office of Alternative
Medicine For a point/counterpoint about the mission of this agency, go to http://www.physweekly.com/archive/96/10_14_96/pc.html With the motto "Bringing together the best of healing . . . and the best of science" the federal government's foray into the study of alternative medicine at the National Institute of Health is just getting underway. The primary content here is a list of consumer advocacy booklets about evaluating the approach, effectiveness, costs, delivery, and expertise of alternative medicine providers. The show-stopper, however, is the booklet that admonishes would-be consumers to "Consult Your Health Care Provider." For many doctors, that would be like going into a Ford dealer and asking their opinion of a certain brand of bicycle. There is not much of substance here yet, but the key to what will one day be here is provided in the objectives for the office's Evaluation Program: "The Evaluation Program develops rigorous evaluation methods and applies them to the appraisal of complementary and alternative medical scientific literature. The Program will detail systematic evaluation methods appropriate for studies of complementary and alternative medical practices. These methods will be applied to evaluate bodies of scientific evidence on these practices. The Program is implementing a process for developing systematic reviews and meta-analyses of complementary and alternative medical scientific literature." Also see Internet Databases. QuantityQualityPresentation
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Quackwatch,
Your Guide to Health Fraud, Quackery, and Intelligent Decisions The operator, Stephen Barrett, M.D., a retired psychiatrist in Allentown, Pennsylvania, is a nationally known author, editor, and consumer advocate. A specialist in medical communications, he is medical editor of Prometheus Books and consulting editor of Nutrition Forum, a newsletter emphasizing the exposure of fads, fallacies and quackery. His activities include investigating questionable claims, answering inquiries, distributing "reliable" publications, reporting illegal marketing, improving the quality of health information on the Internet, and attacking misleading advertising on the Internet Barrett comes on strong, as expected from a self-styled "consumer advocate." And he uses descriptive words like "scam," (as in "The Mercury Amalgam Scam") to describe approaches that rely on anecdotal evidence for efficacy. While some may be turned off, others may be prone to believing everything Barrett says because he is a skeptic. It is useful to note that, after doing everything he can to discourage readers from replacing their amalgam fillings, he still provides a link to the Web site of the primary advocate of the procedure.
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