Integrative Care

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Research News

Integrative Care Cut Need for Pain Drugs in Half

15 May, 2014 by David Finer

After integrative care for pain at the anthroposophical hospital Vidarkliniken in Sweden, prescriptions for pain medications could be halved. Patients in conventional care however, purchased twice as many analgesics as before treatment. These are some results of a unique comparative study published in the high impact journal PLOS One. Physician Hans Johansson, Södertälje Hospital (not involved with the study), says that it is interesting and important. Read more

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Policy News

Swedish Mistletoe Ruling Boon for Cancer Patients

21 March, 2014 by David Finer

- From a patient perspective, it is of course encouraging that a usage which has been made an exception for decades now will be accepted, Johanna Hök, pharmacist, PhD and I C researcher comments on the decision by the Swedish Medical Products Agency (MPA) to approve mistletoe preparations for injection. Read more

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Policy News

Consumers Suffer As CAM Slips Through The Cracks

13 September, 2013 by David Finer

Complementary and alternative medicine slips through the cracks of the government agencies, and consumers have to pay. That is why there is a need for sceptics´and consumer organizations. Molecular cell biologist Professor Dan Larhammar, Uppsala University focused on ineffective and fraudulent alternatives in a lecture on the eve of the 15th European Sceptics Congress in Stockholm recently. Read more

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Policy News

EDITORIAL: Thank You for NCCAM, Mr President!

6 September, 2013 by Torkel Falkenberg

During the recent state visit of US President Barack Obama to Sweden, there was an almost hour-long press conference during which Obama and Sweden´s PM Fredrik Reinfeldt affirmed their debt of gratitude to each other´s countries in various respects. At I C (Integrative Care Science Center), we view the US as a role model in terms of concerted, long-term and large-scale efforts in the field of complementary, alternative and integrative care/medicine, writes Torkel Falkenberg, Head of I C in an editorial. Read more

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Policy News

Swedish MP: “I C is just what we need in Sweden!”

15 September, 2012 by David Finer

- I C is just what we have been missing in Sweden. As politicians we will really be able to use your results and I am looking forward to them, says professor of medicine and MP for the Swedish conservative party Finn Bengtsson, at the opening ceremony of I C. Read more

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