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What is CAM?

NCCAM -- CAM BASICS
White House Commission on CAM Policy -- Final report
Established by Executive Order No. 13147 in March 2000, the report address: the coordination of research to increase knowledge about CAM products; the education and training of health care practitioners in CAM; the provision of reliable and useful information about CAM practices and products to health care professionals; and Guidance regarding appropriate access to and delivery of CAM.

Search CAM on PubMed@UCI

Below is the step-by-step Instructions on how to set up the PubMed Filters for restricting search results to Complementary Medicine (CAM):

Enter your search terms in the search box and click Go. This action will take you to the PubMed search results page.
On the PubMed results page, click on Show additional filters. The link located at the bottom of the left column.
Inside the Additional filters, check the Subjects box. Then click the Show blue button.
Under Subjects, select Customize.... This will bring up the Subjects window.
In the Subjects window, check the Complementary Medicine box and click the Show blue button.
Under Subjects, select Complementary Medicine. Note: a Check mark will appear next to Complementary Medicine. Your PubMed search results will restrict to CAM studies.

Databases

* = UC Irvine access only

Agricola
AGRICOLA is created by the U.S. National Agricultural Library.

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AGRICOLA is created by the U.S. National Agricultural Library . It includes citations about herbs and medicinal plants and includes references from the Herb Research Foundations' HerbalGram. Production of electronic records began in 1970, but the database covers materials in all formats, including print works from the 15th century. Some records are linked to online full text documents.
Bandolier Complementary and Alternative Therapies
Bandolier Complementary and Alternative Therapies provides EBM healthcare related issues to medical professionals and consumers. Note: the site has not been updated for 10 years.

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Bandolier Complementary and Alternative Therapies provides EBM healthcare related issues to medical professionals and consumers. Health topics include the nature of evidence, herbal medicine and supplements, acupuncture, homeopathy, massage, and safety concerns. The site provides abstracts of systematic reviews, meta-analyses, or other studies about CAM. The content is ‘tertiary’ publishing, Distilling the information from secondary reviews of primary trials and making it comprehensive. Currently it contains over 100 summaries on the effectiveness of CAM.
BIOSIS Previews *
CAM on PubMed@UCI
PubMed provides the Medical Subject Heading "Complementary Therapies"[Mesh]. This may be added to any search to retrieve publications focusing on Complementary Therapies & Alternative Medicine. Sample search: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus AND "Complementary Therapies"[Mesh]

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"Therapeutic practices which are not currently considered an integral part of conventional allopathic medical practice. They may lack biomedical explanations but as they become better researched some (PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; DIET; ACUPUNCTURE) become widely accepted whereas others (humors, radium therapy) quietly fade away, yet are important historical footnotes. Therapies are termed as Complementary when used in addition to conventional treatments and as Alternative when used instead of conventional treatment."
中醫藥標本資料庫 Chinese Medicine Specimen Database
The Chinese Medicine Specimen Database is a collaboration project between the School of Chinese Medicine and the Hong Kong Baptist University Library. The goal is to promote people's awareness of the variety, authenticity, and effective use of Chinese Medicines. The database currently has a collection of all exhibits of Chinese Materia Medica specimen that are displayed in the Chinese Medicine Centre.
Cochrane Library *
Dietary Supplements Labels Database
The database offers information about label ingredients in more than 6,000 selected brands of dietary supplements. It enables users to compare label ingredients in different brands. Information is also provided on the "structure/function" claims made by manufacturers.
HerbMed Pro - American Botanical Council:
HerbMedPro is an interactive, electronic herbal database that provides hyperlinked access to the scientific data underlying the use of herbs for health.

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You can view the HerbMedPro tutorial video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S0MrfLTB-I
ICL (Index to Chiropractic Literature)
This is a free web-based database funded by the Association of Chiropractic Colleges.

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This is a free web-based database funded by the Association of Chiropractic Colleges. Librarians from 13 different chiropractic colleges contributed to its indexing. This database indexes 41 chiropractic journals using terms from MeSH and CHIROSH from 1985 to the present.
藥用植物圖像數據庫 Medicinal Plant Images Database
This open access Medicinal Plant database, is a collaborative project between the School of Chinese Medicine and the Hong Kong Baptist University Library. The database contains thousand images of Chinese Medicinal plants with annotations. Its mission is to promote the popularization, internationalization, resource sharing, and to support teaching and learning of medicinal plants and the culture of Chinese Medicine.
Natural Medicines*
"Formerly Natural standard and Natural medicines comprehensive database." Provides Resource on dietary supplements, natural medicines, and complementary alternative and integrative therapies
NIH The Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS)
The ODS provides a Web-searchable database of funded research and scientific papers on dietary supplements.

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The ODS provides a Web-searchable database of funded research and scientific papers on dietary supplements. It contains two databases called CARDS and IBIDS. The International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS) database provides access to bibliographic citations and abstracts from published, international, scientific literature on dietary supplements. Computer Access to Research on Dietary Supplements (CARDS) is a database of federally funded research projects pertaining to dietary supplements.
PEDro: an initiative of the Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy (CEBP)
PEDro is the Physiotherapy Evidence Database. It has been developed to give rapid access to bibliographic details and abstracts of randomised controlled trials and systematic reviews in physiotherapy.

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PEDro is the Physiotherapy Evidence Database. It has been developed to give rapid access to bibliographic details and abstracts of randomised controlled trials and systematic reviews in physiotherapy. Most trials on the database have been rated for quality to help users quickly discriminate between trials that are likely to be valid and interpretable and those which are not. Reliability of the PEDro scale for rating quality of randomized controlled trials has been published in Physical Therapy 83(8):713-21, 2003 August. Abstract can be viewed at http://www.ptjournal.org/info/pt_abs.cfm. PEDro also contains evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.
ProQuest: Multiple databases *
The ProQuest® online information service provides access to thousands of current periodicals and newspapers, many updated daily and containing full-text articles from 1986. It covers publications relevant to business and economic development of CAM.
PsycINFO: Your Source for Psychological Abstracts *
An abstract (not full-text) database of psychological literature from the 1800s to the present.

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An abstract (not full-text) database of psychological literature from the 1800s to the present. Covers publications (journal articles, book chapters and books, technical reports, and dissertations) relevant to psychology, psychotherapy, spirituality, and other CAM related topics.
PubMed Dietary Supplement Subset
Resources for Health Care Providers from the Nantional Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
This page provides evidence-based resources such as research results and clinical practice guidelines. It helps health care providers to discuss CAM approach with their patients.
SciFinder Scholar *
SciFinder Scholar is a web-based interface to the world's largest database of chemistry literature, Chemical Abstracts. Over 27 million citations to chemistry publications are searchable by topic, author, CAS Registry Number, patent number, and CAS abstract number. In some cases, links to the full-text of journal articles are available. Over 16 million citations to medical and biological references in MEDLINE, 31 million organic and inorganic substances, and 59 million sequences.

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This subject guide provides information on how to register and access SciFinder Scholar through either Web or Mobile.
Web of Science *
Web of Science is a bibliographic database that covers publications relevant to life sciences and other CAM related topics.

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