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Five complementary therapies are once again available to Swiss people via their health system, with all becoming reimburseable under Swiss health insurance. They are: homeopathy, herbalism, Traditional Chinese medicine, ‘holistic medicine’ (an integrated approach) and neural therapy.  They all become available again in 2012, however, the medicines must prove their ‘efficacy, cost effectiveness and suitability...

Here is our pick of the new MESH terms for people searching Medline/PubMed and many medical journals, catalogues and databases. The full list is available here in a handy tree format Do remember to always check the scope notes to find out the formal definition, history and applicability of the heading.  These headings won’t be...

Freshwinds Institute of Integrated Medicine has issued a low price relaxation tape aimed at everyone who wants to learn basic techniques to relax their body. You can find out more about it here. You can follow their Twitter feed to get up to date news on new courses, which include one on complementary therapies and...

A talk is taking place at Rudolph Steiner House on 5th April about anthroposophical medicine. It’s given by Dr. Gerhard Florschutz, who in 1983, together with his wife Liz, founded the Raphael Medical Centre, the only anthroposophical hospital in the English speaking world. Full details and directions on the website here.

The Wellcome Collection has been holding and recording a series of science talks at lunchtimes, with a strong emphasis on how we think and social behaviour. Find out why some people can resist a chocolate biscuit and others can’t, the protective effect of disgust and even why how hungry you are can affect who you...

The January edition of the NHS Evidence complementary and alternative medicine newsletter has been published online here. There is a summary of recent systematic reviews, including inconclusive explorations of whether ginseng has an effect on cognition and the effect of antioxidants on lung disease in cystic fibrosis.  A round up of responses to newspaper reports...

The journal Science has recently interviewed the French virologist Luc Montagnier.  Montagnier won the Nobel Prize in 2008 for his discovery of the HIV virus.  However he is also well known for being open to the ideas surrounding homeopathy. In the Science interview he says “I can’t say that homeopathy is right in everything. What...

We are pleased to announce a major international conference on Integrative Care for the Future, to be held March 11-12, 2011 outside of Amsterdam. Integrative Medicine/Integrative Oncology is evidence-based adjunctive care for the control of physical and emotional symptoms. The conference will open with a half-day Round-Table Symposium at which an international panel of Health...

Camlis opening hours will be from 9:00pm-5pm from Thursday 16th of December. There will be no late open on Tuesday and Wednesday on the week of 21st December. We will close at 2.00 pm on Thursday, Dec 24th, and re-open after the festive break on Tuesday, Jan 4th, 8.45 am. All on-line services will be...

The peer-reviewed, open source international Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine has now been running for a year and has published three issues.  You can read it online for free here.  Camlis is also carrying paper copies in the library. The publishers write: ‘As a trans-disciplinary platform for integrative health sciences, J-AIM aims to explore...