full resource list full download list

Welcome to NHS Evidence - complementary and alternative medicine

 

Finding, evaluating and presenting quality information and evidence on CAM

 

St John's wort Acupuncture ©iStockphoto Patient with a GP ©Wellcome images

Introduction to CAM

Updates by therapy 

Updates by condition NEW!

2009 Annual Evidence Update on CAM for Low Back Pain NEW!

2009 Annual Evidence Update on CAM in Depression NEW!   

Keep up to date - this collection was updated on 19 November 2009

NCCAM's 10th Anniversary Research Symposium -- Exploring the Science of Complementary and Alternative Medicine
The US National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) will celebrate a decade of rigorous research with its 10th Anniversary Research Symposium. This event will be videocast at http://videocast.nih.gov/ and will be available on Twitter: #nccamten.
2009 Annual evidence update on CAM for low back pain
A summary of new evidence on complementary and alternative therapies for low back pain.
NHS Evidence - complementary and alternative medicine newsletter
The November 2009 issue of the CAM specialist collection newsletter lists recent additions to the collection and highlights the latest news items and upcoming events.
Introduction of the Traditional Herbal Registration Certification Mark
The Traditional Herbal Registration Certification Mark shows that a product has been registered by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency under the UK Traditional Herbal Registration Scheme.
Traditional Chinese medicinal herbs for the treatment of idiopathic chronic fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome
New Cochrane review from the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2009, Issue 4

About this website

This specialist collection is a unique resource which aims to provide access to good quality, up-to-date, relevant information on complementary and alternative medicine. The content of the collection is intended primarily for health professionals, CAM practitioners and researchers, but the majority of the information is also accessible by patients, carers and the general public.


To find out more about the CAM specialist collection please see the About us and Collection Development pages. This resource will continue to be developed and updated and we would welcome comments and suggestions from our users.


Some of the topics that will be covered in the future can be seen under the heading Other Therapies or Medical Systems. Please note that the information under these headings is limited at present as systematic searches for most of these topics have not yet been carried out.

NHS Evidence Specialist Collections

Provided by NICE, NHS Evidence is a new service which will develop, enhance and expand the services that were previously provided by the National Library for Health (NLH). The NLH and its specialist libraries became part of NHS Evidence on 1 April 2009. Release 1 of the NHS Evidence portal and search engine went live on 30th April 2009 at www.evidence.nhs.uk.

As part of ongoing developments, the specialist libraries have changed their names and are, as a group, called specialist collections. This individual collection is now called NHS Evidence – complementary and alternative medicine, and you will continue to be able to access all the content and features. The existing URL for the collection will remain for now, but is likely to change later in the year as the specialist collections become fully integrated with the NHS Evidence portal.   

For more information about NHS Evidence, please follow this link: http://www.evidence.nhs.uk/AboutUs.aspx.