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Call for articles on healing

The Confederation of Healing Organisations, which is a healing charity, has generously given £3,000 to support the production of the British Holistic Medical Association Journal.

It has requested that two healing articles are published in each of the next three issues. If you wish to report on research or a project that is related to healing please contact the JHH editor: Edwina Rowling http://bhma.org/contact

Delivering complementary healthcare in a statutory setting

We are pleased to offer this unique course for complementary therapists in the the Sunderland ,Newcastle and Durham area.

It is suitable for those wishing to work as therapists within a statutory setting or for those who wish to have a better understanding of what is required of therapists within a hospital setting.

An overview of some of the material the course will cover:

• How to prepare, approach and present yourself to hospitals successfully

• How to describe CT to conventional medics and nursing staff

• What language can we as therapists usefully use?

• Infection Control

• How to adapt your therapy within a hospital setting

• Working successfully within a multi disciplined team

• The importance of VSR

• Funding

Date: Saturday 9th October 2010

Time: 10-5

Cost: The cost for the day is £80 which includes “home-made vegetarian lunch” and refreshments

Closing date for applications 22nd September 2010

Please contact Angie Buxton-King at wedidit@virginmedia.com to book your place on this course and for further joining instructions.  Angie Buxton-King created the healing service at University College Hospital, London where she works.

Call for abstracts: Chinese conference on complementary medicine research

The 6th Conference of the International Society for Complementary Medicine Research (ISCMR) will take place in Chengdu, China from May 6-9, 2011.

They invite potential speakers to submit abstracts for consideration. Abstracts can be submitted online at the congress website: www.2011iscmr.org. Your abstract should not exceed 450 words and it should be written in English. More details of format and topics on the website.

Submission deadline is October 30, 2010.  Authors will be notified of how to present before January 30, 2011.

Contact for any queries: Prof Taxiang Wu txwutx@hotmail.com Chinese Cochrane Centre, Sichuan University.

Not enough experts as child food allergies rocket

The number of children with food allergies serious enough to cause hospitalisation have risen by 500% since 1990 reports the BMJ.

The British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology says the number of specialists treating child allergies needs to increase.

Meanwhile NICE are consulting on their guidelines for treating food allergy in children and young people until 6th September.  To participate, you need to register as a stakeholder with NICE, or feed comments to an existing stakeholder group.

Videocast: Claudia Witt on acupuncture trials in Germany

Dr Claudia Witt spoke in early August at the US based National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.  Her subject was ‘the acupuncture trials from Germany – What do they tell us about efficacy, effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and safety?’

The whole lecture can be seen as a videocast here.

Dr. Witt is currently the Vice Director, Professor for Complementary Medicine, and Head of the Division for Complementary Medicine at the Institute of Social Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Economics at Charite University Medical Centre in Berlin, Germany.

CAMSTRAND 2011

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

Andrew Lansley rejects calls for funding ban on homeopathy

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.’

Read more here.

Summer Closure

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!

STC report on Homoeopathy – Update

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.

New Ovid interface

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:

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