The scientists of CAMbrella, an EU-funded research network for CAM, have presented the findings of three years’ work. CAM is described as a woefully neglected research area, requiring a coordinated European approach. On Thursday November 29, the CAMbrella scientists´ network unveiled their ‘Roadmap for European CAM research in Brussels. CAMbrella consists of academic research groups […] Read more
In Switzerland, patients will be able to get CAM treatments under the auspices of state-funded health care, at least through the year 2018. This is a result of new scientific studies and a referendum. There has been quite a heated debate going on in Switzerland the last few years as to whether certain CAM methods […] Read more
Patients and health care staff should communicate more about herbal medicines, says Barbro Gerdén, M.D. at the Swedish Medical Product Agency. Since 2008, there has been an ongoing campaign in USA promoting that message. Read more
During the last decade CAM methods have become increasingly common features in the health care systems of Norway and Denmark. This may be explained by evidence and by the influence of motivated individual. Researchers report a survey study of the use of CAM methods at 99 Norwegian and 126 Danish hospitals in the journal BMC […] Read more
A national Swedish survey shows for the first time that a majority of surgeons want to learn more about CAM, Complementary and Alternative Medicine. The study was carried out in 2010-2011 by Kristofer Bjerså, RN and collaborators at the Sahlgrenska Academy, Gothenburg University and is published in the journal BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine. The […] Read more