1. 28th July 2010

    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...
  2. 23rd July 2010

    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...
  3. STC report on Homoeopathy – Update

    The new coalition government is due to respond to the 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...
  4. 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...
  5. 5th July 2010

    British Conference of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine

    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...
  6. 1st July 2010

    6th IN-CAM Research Symposium

    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,...

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