Biomaterial Database

Complementary or Alternative medicine and the Internet. 1998

B Elliott, and G Elliott

Bayhealth Medical Center, Milford Memorial Hospital, Delaware.

Complementary or Alternative Medicine (CAM) is being used with increasing frequency in the United States. This paper describes what CAM is, and catalogues mainstream medical Web sites. These online resources contain extensive information on CAM, and will provide a means to stay current with this sometimes-new yet often ancient area of medicine.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000529	Complementary Therapies	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.	Alternative Medicine,Complementary Medicine,Medicine, Alternative,Medicine, Complementary,Alternative Therapies,Therapy, Alternative,Therapy, Complementary,Therapies, Alternative,Therapies, Complementary
D020407	Internet	A loose confederation of computer communication networks around the world. The networks that make up the Internet are connected through several backbone networks. The Internet grew out of the US Government ARPAnet project and was designed to facilitate information exchange.	World Wide Web,Cyber Space,Cyberspace,Web, World Wide,Wide Web, World