A reminder that the reading room will be closed to users, over August 9th-21st, while we make substantial improvements to our services. Because of staff holidays, our opening hours will be limited to 9pm-5pm with some lunchtime closures, until Thursday 2nd September.
We hope to start the autumn with a reorganised reading room, a collection of ebooks, faster access to streamed video for all online courses and a new look for the website. Users may experience temporary problems with online access during this time, but we hope to make any transitions seamless. We will keep you informed of any developments, and would like to apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. We wish you a happy summer break if you’re getting one!
Title: CAMSTRAND 2011
Location: Hotel Ibis, Southampton
Description: The CAMSTRAND Conference 2011, which is aimed at doctoral and postdoctoral researchers into complementary and alternative medicine is taking place in Southampton. Further details will be announced shortly.
Date: 2011-07-31
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley says the government will not ban homeopathy on the NHS, following calls from the parliamentary Science and Technology committee.
A statement from the Department of Health says:
‘We believe in patients being able to make informed choices about their treatments, and in a clinician being able to make informed choices about their treatments.
‘The local NHS and clinicians, rather than Whitehall, are best placed to make decisions on what treatment is appropriate for their patients – including complementary or alternative treatments such as homeopathy – and provide accordingly for those treatments.’
The new coalition government is due to respond to the Science and Technology Committee’s report before their Summer recess.
Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, who was a member of the House of Lords’ Science and Technology Committee when they did a review of CAM in 2000, is circulating his critique of the report throughout both houses in order to retain the NHS provision of homoeopathic services. The critique questions the methodology used in the report, examining the selective uses and limitations of clinical evidence, and also critiques the scantiness of other evidential considerations.
Read the report here.
OvidSP is the platform that Camlis members use to search our databases: Medline, Amed, Mantis and Global Health. It will be upgraded from August the 2nd. Users will find a simpler, cleaner layout with more options for storing and saving work in a personal Ovid account. Most of the changes are intuitive, but here are some video guides to assist you:
- Select a Database
- Applying Limits to Search Results
- Basic Search Overview
- Multi-Field Search Overview
- Search Fields Overview
- Search Tools Overview
Title: British Conference of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
Location: Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey
Link out: Click here
Description: Hosted by the British Acupuncture Council, this annual event is now the largest of its kind in the UK. The conference welcomes all practitioners trained in TCM, Five element and western Medical Acupuncture as well as other medical professionals who use acupuncture as an adjunct to their main practice.
Start Date: 2010-09-11
End Date: 2010-09-12
Title: 6th IN-CAM Research Symposium
Location: The Sutton Place Hotel, Vancouver, Canada
Link out: Click here
Description: With an on-going commitment to fostering excellence in CAM and Integrative Health Care (IHC) research, the theme of the 6th Symposium is: Complementary and Integrative Health Care: Methodological, Theoretical and Practical Issues
Abstract Submission – deadline: July 30, 2010
Start Date: 2010-11-19
Start Time: 14:00
End Date: 2010-11-21
End Time: 14:30
There is a vacancy for a healing therapist to participate in a new study developed by Freshwinds and the University of Birmingham . The study looks at the healing of patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and patients with Ulcerative Colitis attending a hospital gastroenterology clinic. Applicants should be a full member of the NFSH / Healing Trust. For more details and an application form see the Freshwinds vacancies page.
Hekla: Beneficial volcanic ash
In recent months, we have all had our general knowledge expanded quite dramatically when it comes to Iceland. Not only can we now confidently talk about Icelandic banks or answer pub quizzes about Icelandic Prime ministers. We can also wipe the floor with our opponents at Scrabble, having been taught by the media how to spell and pronounce Eyjafjallajökull. But Icelandic volcanos are not only good for stopping all air traffic over most of Europe. Indeed, as the polymath (and CAMLIS’s good friend) Francis Treuherz points out to us, homœopaths have reason to be grateful to these hotheaded giants. Read more
Our online access to to the journal FACT : Focus on Alternative and Complementary Therapies is back up. Subscribers were having difficulty finding online editions while the journal found a new host and publisher. Now that it rests securely with Wiley, there will be a slight change of approach to the journal’s content. Most significantly FACT now publishes peer-reviewed original articles. Authors are invited to submit articles via the website.
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Event List
- Sat 11/Sep/2010: British Conference of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
- Fri 1/Oct/2010: 7th Annual World Congress of Chinese Medicine (WCCM)
- Thu 11/Nov/2010: British Homeopathic Congress
- Fri 19/Nov/2010: 6th IN-CAM Research Symposium
- Fri 3/Dec/2010: 3rd European Congress for Integrative Medicine (ECIM)
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- Kampo : by Otsuka, Keisetsu,Kampo : by Otsuka, Keisetsu, Edinburgh : Churchill Livingstone, xviii, 164 p. ;26 cm. Translation of: Kanpo igaku. View Details | Reserve this Item | More by this Author […]
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- Chinese medical qigong /Chinese medical qigong / London : Singing Dragon, 1 v. ;27 cm. Includes index. View Details | Reserve this Item […]
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- Computers : by Capron, H. L.Computers : by Capron, H. L. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, xxiii, 600 p. :ill. (chiefly col.) ;26 cm + View Details | Reserve this Item | More by this Author […]
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