A collection of resources, including Websites, databases, and links to Duke programs, which focus on alternative medicine, dietary supplements, herbal therapies, and other natural health remedies.
A clearinghouse of other Websites, online databases, Internet newsgroups, and mailing lists available to professionals and the public.
Format: Website
Provider: University of Pennsylvania
Meta-site for sources of information on alternative medicine; organized by treatment categories.
Format: Website
Provider: McMaster University Health Sciences Library
The Duke Cancer Patient Education Program provides A Cancer Patient's Guide to Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2nd edition, with links to information resources.
Format: Website
Provider: Duke Cancer Patient Education Program
This site provides information on the FDA post-marketing regulation of dieteary supplements. Includes: safety, adverse event reporting, labeling, claims, and package inserts.
Format: Website
Provider: Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition
A database that offers information on more than 2,000 selected brands of dietary supplements (vitamins, minerals, herbs and other botanicals, amino acids and other specialty supplements. Searchable by brand name, active ingredient, usage noted on label, and manufacturer. FDA warnings and recalls are included. Linked to MedlinePlus and PubMed so that users may search for use in humans, adverse effects and mechanism of action.
Format: Database
Provider: National Library of Medicine
Dr. Andrew Weil, a leader in the integration of Western medicine and the exploding field of alternative medicine, provides news and information on alternative and complementary therapies. A graduate of Harvard Medical School, Weil teaches at the University of Arizona in Tucson, specializing in alternative medicine, mind/body integration and medical botany.
Format: Website
Provider: Andrew Weil, MD
The Duke Center for Integrative Medicine, part of the Duke University Health System, provides integrative medicine clinical services and fosters the development of integrative medicine through research and education throughout the health system.
Format: Website
Provider: Duke Health
This textbook integrates traditional and nontraditional medicine, covering integrative therapies and practical applications for topics commonly found in primary care practice. Also available in print: WB890 In83 2003.
Format: Website
Provider: David Rakel, MD
Use of this resource is restricted to Duke faculty, staff, and students.
The International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS) database covers published, international, scientific literature on dietary supplements, including vitamins, minerals, and botanicals.
Format: Website
Provider: NIH
Mosby's Complementary and Alternative Medicine: A Research-Based Approach
This reader-friendly textbook balances theory with practical application and methods of treatment. Contains information on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies, including homeopathy, biofeedback, exercise, and herbs.
Format: Book
WB890 F87m 2004
Provider: Lynda W. Freeman
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Alternative Medicine provides information about current research in the field of alternative or complementary medicine. The site includes links to other Websites on similar topics.
Format: Website
Provider: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
This site covers recent news on alternative and complementary therapies, with the opportunity to subscribe to a free newsletter.
Format: Website
Provider: Project Cure
Natural Standard aggregates and synthesizes data on complementary and alternative therapies and includes monographs on herbs and supplements, conditions and practices. Monographs are based on literature searches and include a grading system to indicate the strength of evidence available.
Format: Database
Use of this database is restricted to Duke IP addresses. Remote access (outside Duke) is only available via the Virtual Private Network (VPN) for the Duke University Health System.
This resource contains information about medicinal herbs that can be grown and processed in North Carolina for consumers, health professionals and growers.
Format: Website
Provider: North Carolina Consortium on Natural Medicines and Public Health, UNC-Chapel Hill
PubMed is a service of the National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources. To limit your search to those articles that are about alternative and complementary therapies, click on the
Limits tab, then select
Complementary Medicine from the
Subsets dropdown menu. Click
Go to apply the new limit.
Format: Database
Provider: National Library of Medicine
Textbook of Natural Medicine
This two-volume set, which includes sections on the philosophy of natural medicine, supplementary diagnostic medicine, specific health problems and the pharmacology of natural medicines, serves as both a textbook and reference. Based on theory and clinical studies, it contains thousands of research citations.
Format: Book
Reserve Room WB935 T31 1999.
Provider: Joseph E. Pizzorno, Jr., Michael T. Murray
This site provides consumers with guidance on alternative and complementary therapies, and includes treatment information for specific diseases (under "Healing Centers"), nutritional and dietary information (under "Healing Kitchen"), information on specific practices, products or supplements (under "Reference Library") and current news. Expert opinions include the author's credentials. The site is produced by American WholeHealth Networks, Inc., which provides integrative health services for managed care organizations and health plans, and Rebus, Inc., a consumer and wellness health publisher.
Format: Website
Provider: Whole Health Networks
