JEFFSelects: Alternative and Complementary Medicine
Major Subject Gateways | General
Information & "Ask a Doctor" Sites | Herbs
& Drugs | Databases | Standards,
Quality & Consumer Protection | Research
Centers | Organizations, Associations &
Professional Societies
News, Journals & Communications
- Alternative
Medicine Digest
Alternative Medicine.com offers many different forms of publications
and services for sale. With that caveat, however, selected full text
articles of the Alternative Medicine Digest are freely available from
July, 1999 to present. The digest is a popular magazine aimed at consumers.
- Alternative
Medicine Review (Thorne Research)
This bimonthly peer-reviewed journal publishes scientific reports,
monographs, and a calendar of upcoming conferences and meetings. Access
to current full text requires a paid subscription; however, tables
of contents and abstracts are freely available for current issues,
and full text for back issues through May, 1996. This scholarly journal
is aimed at practitioners.
- Alternative
Therapies in Health and Medicine (Innovision Communications)
A peer-reviewed journal intended for practitioners, which describes
itself as encouraging "the integration of alternative therapies with
conventional medical practices in a way that provides for a rational,
individualized, comprehensive approach to healthcare."
- Complementary
& Alternative Medicine at the NIH
Occasional issues of this quarterly newsletter of the Office of Alternative
Medicine are available from December 1995 to date. It features reports
on NIH-sponsored research, agency news, and consensus conference statements
from OAM.
- FDA Consumer
A bimonthly magazine for consumers, the FDA Consumer both promotes
good health and reports on current FDA activities to ensure that the
products the agency regulates (food, human and animal drugs, medical
devices, and biologics) are fit to use.
- Medical
Herbalism: A Journal for the Clinical Practitioner (MedHerb)
Selected articles from the current issue are freely available. Articles
from back issues may be ordered for a fee. As indicated in its title,
Medical Herbalism is intended for a clinical audience.
- Natural
Health Village
Provided by Natural HealthLine, the "village" includes current holistic
heath news, with links to full text articles from both general news
and medical journals. Intended for a popular audience.
- The Scientific Review
of Alternative Medicine
A free, peer-reviewed journal for evaluating alternative medicine
is published by the Center for Inquiry Transnational.
- The Scientific Review
of Mental Health and Practice
A free, peer-reviewed journal, published by the Center for Inquiry
Transnational
- Townsend Letter for Doctors
and Patients: The Examiner of Medical Alternatives (TLDP)
The Townsend Letter is a newsletter published in print form 10 issues/year.
Selected articles are freely available in full text at the Web site,
along with an index to all issues from 1983 - present. Authors include
researchers, clinicians and patients, for a mixture of perspectives
on the subject. Intended for both consumers and clinicians.
For many more popular e-magazines, see Yahoo's list of Alternative Medicine Online Journals (Yahoo).
