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
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 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
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
Quackwatch, Inc. is a nonprofit corporation whose purpose is to combat health-related frauds, myths, fads, fallacies, and misconduct. Their activities include investigating questionable claims, answering inquiries about products and services, advising quackery victims, distributing reliable publications, debuking pseudoscientific claims, reporting illegal marketing, assisting or generating consumer-protection lawsuits, improving the quality of health information on the Internet, and attacking misleading advertising on the Internet.
Format: Website
Provider: Quackwatch
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
