Chris recommends the following Web sites that have been evaluated for their evidence base and credibility. Scroll down for the categories of General Health Information, Integrative and Complementary Health Information, and Health Research Information and Organizations. Note that the acronym CAM is used to represent Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
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MedlinePlus – excellent for all general and specific health information
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
World’s Healthiest Foods – a great site for nutritional information
http://www.worldshealthiestfoods.com
PubMed – National Library of Medicine – do your research here
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?CMD=Limits&DB=PubMed
Cancer Nutrition Info, LLC
Suzanne Dixon, MPH, MS, RD
A professional and thorough review of research, recipes, and FAQs about the link between cancer and nutrition
http://web.cancernutritioninfo.com/main.cfm?id=1
NCCAM - U.S. National Center for Complementary & Alternative Medicine – a site of the National Institutes of Health, the best site for CAM news releases and current developments. Allows access to a CAM citation Index, a database of over 90,000 articles. Register for their excellent newsletter.
http://nccam.nih.gov/
Health and Age – Alternative Medicine - Lists herbs and supplements by usage for different conditions, brand-name drugs and the herbs and supplements that may interact with them, and which herbs and supplements are commonly used for numerous health conditions and symptoms.
http://www.healthandage.com/html/res/com/indexC.html
Complementary and Alternative Medicine – New Zealand Guidelines Group -
Excellent evidence-based resource pages.
http://www.cam.org.nz/
Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center – CAM Info Sheets
http://cancer.duke.edu/pated/CAM.asp
Oregon Health and Science University
http://www.ohsu.edu/library/consumerhealth/chaltmed.shtml
Harvard Medical School’s Consumer Health Information - index of herbal medicines and supplements, and alternative therapies and modalities
http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/8513/8513.html
Rosenthal Centre for Complementary and Alternative Medicine – Affiliated with Columbia University, scientifically evaluates the efficacy of therapies, reports on current research and US legislation related to CAM, has a directory of databases and links.
http://www.rosenthal.hs.columbia.edu/
Whole Health MD – leading medical doctors who specialize in complementary medicine give advice, including kitchen ideas.
http://www.wholehealthmd.com
Canadian Institute for Health Information
Can access all current reports on health issues in Canada
http://secure.cihi.ca/cihiweb/dispPage.jsp?cw_page=PG_376_E&cw_topic=376&cw_rel=AR_43_E
World Health Organization International
http://www.who.int/en/
Alberta Provincial Health Ethics Network
http://www.phen.ab.ca/index.html
Canadian Interdisciplinary Network for Complementary & Alternative Medicine Research (IN-CAM)
http://www.incamresearch.ca/index.html
The Complementary and Alternative Medicine Education and Research Network of Alberta ("CAMera Network")
http://www.cameraresearchnetwork.ab.ca/
The Harvard Medical School Division for Research and Education in Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies
http://www.osher.hms.harvard.edu/news/toc.asp
Canadian Pediatric Complementary and Alternative Medicine Network
http://www.pedcam.ca/
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