Integrative Medicine

Integrative medicine is the new buzz word for medical care that complements mainstream medical care. Annals of integrative medicine involves various aspects of integrative medicine such as acupuncture and moxibustion, traditional Chinese medicine,nutrition, chiropractic, mind-body medicine, meditation, and any other modalities of CAM, as well as their integration with the conventional medicine.
UACIM research activities contribute rigorous scientific studies on the integration of complementary therapies with conventional medicine, with a focus on educational research, corporate health improvement research, and methods to study clinical outcomes in integrative medicine.



Ms. Decker is the editor of An Introduction to Complementary Therapies and coauthor of the Handbook of Integrative Oncology Nursing: Evidence-Based Practice, and she was the first column editor for the Integrated Care column in the Oncology Nursing Society publication, Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing (CJON).
Integrative medicine, as defined by the American Board of Integrative Medicine® (ABOIM) and the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine, is the practice of medicine that reaffirms the importance of the relationship between practitioner and patient, focuses on the whole person, is informed by evidence, and makes use of all appropriate therapeutic approaches, healthcare professionals, and disciplines to achieve optimal health and healing.

The fact that a group of respected American medical scientists has come to an agreement on a broader scope of treatments once considered "alternative" could change the healthcare industry, and have important implications for the health insurance industry.
The Shealy Institute was recognized for several years as the most successful and most cost effective pain clinic in the U.S. Over a 30 year period, Dr. Shealy's clinic has treated over 30,000 chronically ill patients with a remarkable 85% success rate.
Because of holistic medicine and the Essential-Nutrients line of products, my patients now have access to affordable nutritional supplements that complement their mainstream medical care and enhance health, improve longevity, as well as enrich and improve the quality of their lives.

Generally, manufacturers of dietary supplements can claim, without having to provide evidence for safety or efficacy to the FDA, benefit to the body's structure or function (eg, improves cardiovascular health) but cannot claim benefit for treating disease (eg, treats hypertension).
This meeting is convened by the European Society of Integrative Medicine (ESIM) and serves as the 10th European Congress for Integrative Medicine and the 12th International Congress on Complementary Medicine Research sponsored by the International Society for Complementary Medicine Research (ISCMR).

The European Society of Integrative Medicine e.V. is an international association with the aim to facilitate the advancement of science, research, education and further training, to support best and evidence based medical care and to provide advice on policy in the realm of Integrative Medicine (the interaction between conventional and complementary medicine based on evidence based results).
Dodds SE, Herman PM, Sechrest L, Abraham I, Logue MD, Grizzle AL, Rehfeld RA, Urbine TJ, Horwitz R, Crocker RL, Maizes VH. When a whole practice model is the intervention: developing fidelity evaluation components using program theory-driven science for an integrative medicine primary care clinic.

Brian Berman, director of the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, for instance, led the longest and largest randomized, controlled Phase III clinical trial of acupuncture's effect on osteoarthritis of the knee.