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"Lovely Pie in the Sky Plans": A Qualitative Study of Clinicians' Perspectives on Guidelines for Managing Low Back Pain in Primary Care in England

scientific article published on December 2015

A Conference on Developing Research Strategies in CAM

scientific article published on 01 September 2003

A feasibility study exploring the role of Chinese herbal medicine in the treatment of endometriosis

scientific article

A grounded theory study of homeopathic practitioners' perceptions and experiences of the homeopathic consultation

scientific article

A pilot feasibility study of a questionnaire to determine European Union-wide CAM use.

scientific article published on 17 December 2012

A placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomized controlled trial of a natural killer cell stimulant (BioBran MGN-3) in chronic fatigue syndrome

scientific article published on 29 June 2006

A prospective case series exploring the role of Chinese herbal medicine in the treatment of recurrent urinary tract infections

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A research roadmap for complementary and alternative medicine - what we need to know by 2020

scientific article published on 24 March 2014

A review of psychosocial predictors of treatment outcomes: what factors might determine the clinical success of acupuncture for pain?

scientific article published on September 2008

A review of the literature in applied and specialised kinesiology

scientific article published on February 2008

A single-blinded, randomized pilot study evaluating the aroma of Lavandula augustifolia as a treatment for mild insomnia

scientific article published in August 2005

A systematic literature review of complementary and alternative medicine prevalence in EU.

scientific article

A systematic review of beliefs involved in the use of complementary and alternative medicine

scientific article published on November 2007

A systematic review of evidence for the effectiveness of practitioner-based complementary and alternative therapies in the management of rheumatic diseases: osteoarthritis

scientific article

A systematic review of evidence for the effectiveness of practitioner-based complementary and alternative therapies in the management of rheumatic diseases: rheumatoid arthritis

scientific article

A systematic review of vanadium oral supplements for glycaemic control in type 2 diabetes mellitus

scientific article (publication date: 31 January 2008)

A within-subjects trial to test the equivalence of online and paper outcome measures: the Roland Morris disability questionnaire

scientific article

Acupuncture care for breast cancer patients during chemotherapy: a feasibility study

scientific article published in December 2006

Acupuncture compared with placebo in post-herpetic pain

scientific article published on December 1983

Acupuncture for chronic pain: individual patient data meta-analysis

scientific article

Acupuncture for low back pain: A survey of clinical practice in the UK

scientific article published on 27 April 2011

Acupuncture needling sensation: the neural correlates of deqi using fMRI.

scientific article

Acupuncture trials and methodological considerations

Alternative medicine

Alternative therapies for asthma: are patients at risk?

scientific article published on 01 February 2013

An Exploratory Pilot Study to Design and Assess the Credibility of a Sham Kinesiology Treatment

scientific article published on 14 November 2008

An exploratory qualitative study to investigate how patients evaluate complementary and conventional medicine

scientific article published on 01 June 2002

An exploratory study of the contextual effect of homeopathic care. A randomised controlled trial of homeopathic care vs. self-prescribed homeopathic medicine in the prevention of upper respiratory tract infections in children

scientific article published on 09 February 2007

Are the clinical effects of homoeopathy placebo effects?

scientific article published in The Lancet

Assessing homeopathic proving using questionnaire methodology: consideration and implications for future studies

scientific article

Attitudes to and use of complementary medicine among physicians in the United Kingdom

scientific article published in September 2001

Attitudes to traditional Chinese medicine amongst Western trained doctors in the People's Republic of China

scientific article published in January 2001

Attitudes towards Traditional Acupuncture in the UK

article published in 2005

Beyond Expectations: Developing a New Questionnaire to Measure Patients' Beliefs about Conventional and Complementary Therapies for Low Back Pain

Brain imaging of acupuncture: comparing superficial with deep needling

scientific article published on 31 January 2008

Bromelain as a Treatment for Osteoarthritis: a Review of Clinical Studies

scientific article

Bromelain as an adjunctive treatment for moderate-to-severe osteoarthritis of the knee: a randomized placebo-controlled pilot study

scientific article published on 01 December 2006

Building a strategic framework for comparative effectiveness research in complementary and integrative medicine

scientific article published on 26 December 2012

CAM research and development

scientific article

Can Chinese herbal medicine improve outcomes of in vitro fertilization? A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

scientific article

Can a standardized acupuncture technique palliate disabling breathlessness: a single-blind, placebo-controlled crossover study

scientific article

Can practitioners be researchers?

scientific article published on March 2004

Can we evaluate electrodermal testing?

scientific article

Can you kill your enemy by giving homeopathy? Lack of rigour and lack of logic in the systematic review by Edzard Ernst and colleagues on adverse effects of homeopathy

scientific article published on 01 April 2013

Cancer Patients' Experiences of Using Complementary Therapies: Polarization and Integration

scientific article published on 01 March 2010

Characteristics of acupuncture treatment associated with outcome: an individual patient meta-analysis of 17,922 patients with chronic pain in randomised controlled trials

scientific article published in 2013

Chinese herbal medicine for endometriosis

scientific article

Chinese herbal medicine for endometriosis

scientific article (published 2009-07-08)

Chinese herbal medicine for endometriosis

scientific article (published 2007-04-18)

Chinese herbal medicine for idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss: a systematic review of randomised clinical trials

scientific article

Chinese herbal medicine for treating recurrent urinary tract infections in women

scientific article (published 2015-06-04)

Chinese herbal medicine for treating recurrent urinary tract infections in women

scientific article

Chinese herbal medicines for hypercholesterolemia

scientific article (publication date: 2011)

Chiropractic case

Chronic fatigue syndrome: the role of positivity to illness in chronic fatigue syndrome patients

scientific article published in September 2006

Circular instead of hierarchical: methodological principles for the evaluation of complex interventions

scientific article

College of Medicine replies to its critics ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 12 July 2011)

College of Medicine: A new vision of healthcare

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Combining rigour with relevance: a novel methodology for testing Chinese herbal medicine

scientific article

Comparison of effectiveness and safety between granules and decoction of Chinese herbal medicine: a systematic review of randomized clinical trials

scientific article

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and cancer: the kind face of complementary medicine

scientific article published on 23 October 2009

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in the undergraduate medical curriculum: the Southampton experience

scientific article published in January 2001

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) professional practice and safety: A consensus building workshop

Complementary and alternative medicine provision in Europe--first results approaching reality in an unclear field of practices

scientific article published on January 2012

Complementary and alternative medicine treatments for atopic eczema

scientific article

Complementary and alternative medicine whole systems research: beyond identification of inadequacies of the RCT.

scientific article

Complementary and alternative medicine: what the public want and how it may be delivered safely and effectively

article published in 2009

Complementary cancer care in Southampton: a survey of staff and patients

scientific article published on 01 June 2002

Complementary medicine research unit

scientific article

Complementary medicine: the Southampton undergraduate experience

scientific article published on 01 September 2000

Complementary medicine: the need for audit

Could neuroimaging help us to interpret the clinical effects of acupuncture?

scientific article published in August 2006

Delphi-Derived Development of a Common Core for Measuring Complementary and Alternative Medicine Prevalence

scientific article published on 01 May 2009

Depression and anxiety in ovarian cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prevalence rates

scientific article

Depression and anxiety in prostate cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prevalence rates

scientific article published on 13 March 2014

Developing CAM Research Capacity for Complementary Medicine

scientific article

Developing a measure of attitudes: the holistic complementary and alternative medicine questionnaire

scientific article published on 01 March 2003

Developing a measure of treatment beliefs: The complementary and alternative medicine beliefs inventory

scientific article published on 01 June 2005

Developing a research strategy for acupuncture

scientific article published on September 2006

Developing digital interventions: a methodological guide

scientific article

Development of a Multidisciplinary Complementary Medical Research Unit in the United Kingdom

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Development of an international questionnaire to measure use of complementary and alternative medicine (I-CAM-Q).

scientific article

Developments in acupuncture research: big-picture perspectives from the leading edge

scientific article published on September 2008

Devil's Claw (Harpagophytum procumbens) as a treatment for osteoarthritis: a review of efficacy and safety

scientific article published on December 2006

Devil’s Claw (Harpagophytum procumbens): An Anti-Inflammatory Herb with Therapeutic Potential

article published in 2005

Do existing psychologic scales measure the nonspecific benefit associated with CAM treatment?

scientific article published in March 2008

Do skin prick and conjunctival provocation tests predict symptom severity in seasonal allergic rhinoconjunctivitis?

scientific article published on 01 December 2006

Does acupuncture help stroke patients become more independent?

scientific article

Does needling sensation (de qi) affect treatment outcome in pain? Analysis of data from a larger single-blind, randomised controlled trial

EU FP7 project 'CAMbrella' to build European research network for complementary and alternative medicine

scientific article

Ear-acupressure for allergic rhinitis: a systematic review.

scientific article published on February 2010

Effectiveness of distant healing for patients with chronic fatigue syndrome: a randomised controlled partially blinded trial (EUHEALS).

scientific article

Effects of acupuncture as a treatment for hyperventilation syndrome: a pilot, randomized crossover trial

scientific article published in January 2007

Effects of changing practitioner empathy and patient expectations in healthcare consultations

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Effects of spiritual healing for women undergoing long-term hormone therapy for breast cancer: a qualitative investigation

scientific article published on 28 September 2012

Efficacy of distant healing--a proposal for a four-armed randomized study (EUHEALS).

scientific article

Elevation of Candida IgG antibodies in patients with medically unexplained symptoms

scientific article published in December 2007

Ethics of complementary medicine ⬇️

scientific article published on August 1, 2009

Evaluating the efficacy of acupuncture in defined aspects of stroke recovery: a randomised, placebo controlled single blind study

scientific article published on 13 May 2008

Evaluating traditionally based systems of medicine with particular reference to acupuncture

Evidence for the efficacy of complementary and alternative medicines in the management of fibromyalgia: a systematic review

scientific article published on 03 March 2010

Evidence for the efficacy of complementary and alternative medicines in the management of osteoarthritis: a systematic review

scientific article

Exceptional Experience Questionnaire ⬇️

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Expectancy and belief modulate the neuronal substrates of pain treated by acupuncture

scientific article

Experience of Proximate Spiritual Healing in Women with Breast Cancer, Who Are Receiving Long-Term Hormonal Therapy

scientific article published on 01 April 2008

Flavonoids--a new direction for the treatment of fluid retention?

scientific article

Forging convictions: The effects of active participation in a clinical trial

scientific article published on 18 May 2011

GP-TCM Unabridged guidelines for randomised controlled trials investigating Chinese herbal medicine (CHM)

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Good allergy practice and effective allergy practice: a comment on two recent reports

Guidelines for randomised controlled trials investigating Chinese herbal medicine

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High prevalence but limited evidence in complementary and alternative medicine: guidelines for future research

scientific article published on 6 February 2014

Homeopathic and conventional treatment for acute respiratory and ear complaints: a comparative study on outcome in the primary care setting

scientific article

Homeopathic care for the prevention of upper respiratory tract infections in children: a pragmatic, randomised, controlled trial comparing individualised homeopathic care and waiting-list controls

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Homeopathy enables rheumatoid arthritis patients to cope with their chronic ill health: A qualitative study of patient's perceptions of the homeopathic consultation ⬇️

scientific article published on December 15, 2011

Homoeopathic remedies and drug-regulatory authorities

scientific article published in The Lancet

Homoeopathy debate. Editorial ignores evidence

scientific article published on 2 February 2010

How do homeopaths make decisions? An exploratory study of inter-rater reliability and intuition in the decision making process

scientific article published on 01 July 2004

How patients choose acupuncturists: a mixed-methods project

scientific article published on 16 January 2011

How patients choose osteopaths: a mixed methods study

scientific article published on 15 November 2012

How the psychosocial context of clinical trials differs from usual care: a qualitative study of acupuncture patients

scientific article

How to treat a patient with chronic low back pain - methodology and results of the first international case conference of integrative medicine

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Identification of novel expressed sequences, up-regulated in the leucocytes of chronic fatigue syndrome patients

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Identifying patients’ beliefs about treatments for chronic low back pain in primary care: a focus group study ⬇️

scientific article published on July 1, 2013

Individual patient data meta-analysis of acupuncture for chronic pain: protocol of the Acupuncture Trialists' Collaboration ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 28 September 2010)

Influence of control group on effect size in trials of acupuncture for chronic pain: a secondary analysis of an individual patient data meta-analysis

scientific article

Influence of delayed sample processing on blood immune cell phenotypes, immune cell responses and serum anti-influenza vaccine antibody titres

scientific article published on 01 April 2018

Informed consent and placebo effects: a content analysis of information leaflets to identify what clinical trial participants are told about placebos

scientific article

Informing Adults With Back Pain About Placebo Effects: Randomized Controlled Evaluation of a New Website With Potential to Improve Informed Consent in Clinical Research.

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Informing Patients About Placebo Effects: Using Evidence, Theory, and Qualitative Methods to Develop a New Website

scientific article published on 10 June 2016

Integrated medicine in the management of chronic illness: a qualitative study

scientific article

International development of traditional medicine / complementary and alternative medicine research--what can Europe learn?

scientific article published on January 2012

International workshop on acupuncture research methodology: introduction to consensus reports on workshop topics

Investigating a multidisciplinary and patient-centred approach to obesity

Investigating acupuncture using brain imaging techniques: the current state of play

scientific article

Key issues in clinical and epidemiological research in complementary and alternative medicine--a systematic literature review

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Manipulative therapies for infantile colic

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Matching acupuncture clinical study designs to research questions

Medical justice for undocumented migrants

scientific article published in The Lancet

Meta-analysis of the related nutritional supplements dimethyl sulfoxide and methylsulfonylmethane in the treatment of osteoarthritis of the knee

scientific article

Methodological Challenges in Whole Systems Research

scientific article published on 01 November 2006

Monitoring improvement in health during homeopathic intervention. Development of an assessment tool based on Hering's Law of Cure: the Hering's Law Assessment Tool (HELAT).

scientific article published on January 2012

Non-specific Mechanisms in Orthodox and CAM management of back pain (MOCAM)

Non-specific mechanisms in orthodox and CAM management of low back pain (MOCAM): theoretical framework and protocol for a prospective cohort study

scientific article published on 27 May 2016

On the evaluation of the clinical effects of acupuncture

scientific article

Oral Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) as an adjuvant treatment during chemotherapy for non-small cell lung cancer: A systematic review

scientific article

Oscillatory effects in a homeopathic clinical trial: an explanation using complexity theory, and implications for clinical practice.

scientific article

Oscillatory neuronal dynamics associated with manual acupuncture: a magnetoencephalography study using beamforming analysis

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Overseas Chinese students in the UK: patterns and correlates of their use of Western and traditional Chinese medicine

scientific article published on 2 December 2008

Patient preferences for technical skills versus interpersonal skills in chiropractors and physiotherapists treating low back pain

scientific article published in November 2012

Patients as healthcare consumers in the public and private sectors: a qualitative study of acupuncture in the UK.

scientific article

Patients' appraisals of public and private healthcare: a qualitative study of physiotherapy and osteopathy

scientific article published on 23 November 2012

Patients' treatment beliefs in low back pain: development and validation of a questionnaire in primary care

scientific article published on August 2015

Patients’ preconceptions of acupuncture: a qualitative study exploring the decisions patients make when seeking acupuncture ⬇️

scientific article published on May 13, 2013

Patterns of complementary and alternative medicine use among patients undergoing cancer treatment.

scientific article published in May 2009

Placebo use in the UK: a qualitative study exploring GPs' views on placebo effects in clinical practice

scientific article published on 15 April 2014

Placebo use in the United kingdom: results from a national survey of primary care practitioners

scientific article

Placebo-controlled, double-blind study of Echinaceae pallidae radix in upper respiratory tract infections

Polycystic Ovary syndrome: A Randomised feasibility and pilot study using Chinese Herbal medicine to explore Impact on Dysfunction (ORCHID)—Study protocol

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Practice, practitioner, or placebo? A multifactorial, mixed-methods randomized controlled trial of acupuncture

scientific article published on 12 December 2011

Predictors for adolescent visits to practitioners of complementary and alternative medicine in a total population (the Young-HUNT Studies).

scientific article

Presentiment or entanglement? An alternative explanation for apparent entanglement in provings

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Prevalence of complementary medicine use in pediatric cancer: a systematic review

scientific article published on 22 March 2010

Professional Kinesiology Practice for Chronic Low Back Pain: Single-Blind, Randomised Controlled Pilot Study

scientific article published on 20 June 2013

Prospective registration, bias risk and outcome-reporting bias in randomised clinical trials of traditional Chinese medicine: an empirical methodological study

scientific article published on 16 July 2013

Psychological covariates of longitudinal changes in back-related disability in patients undergoing acupuncture

scientific article

Randomised controlled trial of Alexander technique lessons, exercise, and massage (ATEAM) for chronic and recurrent back pain

scientific article

Randomised controlled trial of Alexander technique lessons, exercise, and massage (ATEAM) for chronic and recurrent back pain: economic evaluation

scientific article

Reducing the risk of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM): Challenges and priorities

Reevaluating Acupuncture Research Methods

scientific article published on 01 June 2012

Relevant to today's society? Evidence

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Research methodology: choices, logistics, and challenges.

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Researching complementary and alternative treatments--the gatekeepers are not at home

scientific article (publication date: 11 February 2007)

Science, practice and mythology: a definition and examination of the implications of scientism in medicine

scientific article

Seeking an oracle: using the Delphi process to develop practice guidelines for the treatment of endometriosis with Chinese herbal medicine

scientific article

Self treatment with one of three self selected, ultramolecular homeopathic medicines for the prevention of upper respiratory tract infections in children. A double-blind randomized placebo controlled trial

scientific article published in April 2005

Should we recruit patients or healthy volunteers for acupuncture studies of chronic pain?

scientific article published in October 2007

Southampton needle sensation questionnaire: development and validation of a measure to gauge acupuncture needle sensation

scientific article published on May 2008

Spiritual healing as a therapy for chronic pain: a randomized, clinical trial (Abbot et al., PAIN 2001;91:79–89)

scientific article published on 01 April 2002

Standardised Chinese herbal treatment delivered by GPs compared with individualised treatment administered by practitioners of Chinese herbal medicine for women with recurrent urinary tract infections (RUTI): study protocol for a randomised controll

scientific article

Systematic review of the nutritional supplement Perna Canaliculus (green-lipped mussel) in the treatment of osteoarthritis

scientific article

Systematic review of the nutritional supplements dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) and methylsulfonylmethane (MSM) in the treatment of osteoarthritis

scientific article

The Buteyko breathing technique for asthma: a review.

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The Core Outcomes for Neck Pain: Validation of a New Outcome Measure

scientific article published on 01 September 2004

The Effect of Acupuncture on the Motor Recovery of the Upper Limb after Stroke

The International Society for Complementary Medicine Research (ISCMR): the way forward

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The Meaning of Evidence: Can Practitioners Be Researchers?

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The RCCM 2009 Survey: Mapping Doctoral and Postdoctoral CAM Research in the United Kingdom

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The complementary medical physician: a personal journey

The conundrum of homeopathy. A Commentary on Rutten, A. L. B. & Stolper, C. F. (2009).

scientific article published on December 2009

The credibility of placebo controls in acupuncture studies

article published in 1998

The cultural context of CAM.

scientific article published in December 2008

The development and validation of an outcome measure for spiritual healing: a mixed methods study

scientific article

The effects of acupuncture versus placebo in the treatment of headache

scientific article published on 01 January 1985

The ethics of complementary therapy research recruitment: a case study

scientific article published on April 2009

The experience of using complementary therapies after a diagnosis of cancer: a qualitative synthesis

scientific article published on 22 December 2010

The legitimacy of academic complementary medicine.

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The placebo needle, is it a valid and convincing placebo for use in acupuncture trials? A randomised, single-blind, cross-over pilot trial

scientific article published on 01 December 2003

The use of simplified constitutional indications for self-prescription of homeopathic medicine

scientific article published in June 2004

Towards a pan-European definition of complementary and alternative medicine--a realistic ambition?

scientific article published on January 2012

Traditional Chinese Medicine for treatment of fibromyalgia: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials

scientific article

Treat or treatment: a qualitative study analyzing patients' use of complementary and alternative medicine

Treatment appraisals and beliefs predict adherence to complementary therapies: a prospective study using a dynamic extended self-regulation model

scientific article

Ultramolecular homeopathy has no observable clinical effects. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled proving trial of Belladonna 30C

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Valuing research – the young researcher

Who Uses CAM? A Narrative Review of Demographic Characteristics and Health Factors Associated with CAM Use.

scientific article

Why consumers maintain complementary and alternative medicine use: a qualitative study

scientific article published in February 2010

Why do cancer patients use Chinese Medicine?—A qualitative interview study in China

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World Congress Integrative Medicine & Health 2017: part two: Berlin, Germany. 3–5 May 2017.

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Yeast-derived β-1,3/1,6 glucan, upper respiratory tract infection and innate immunity in older adults.

scientific article published on 23 March 2017

Zusanli (ST36) acupoint injection for preventing postoperative ileus: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials

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