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NACTHPC trial
Welcome to members of the NACTHPC (National Association of Complementary Therapists in Hospice and Palliative Care) who have trial access to Camlis e-resources from Wednesday 9th September for a month. Click here to find your login instructions. - 19th November 2010
College of Medicine
The College of Medicine has launched – a collaboration of doctors, scientists, patients and allied healthcare professions. The membership body hopes to improve patient involvement in care, and to show ways of preventing some of the healthcare scandals which have been a feature of the past twenty years. Full membership is open to clinicians for... Just a minute meditation
Website just-a-minute is advocating the benefits of meditation – from a single minute to longer sessions. Their website helps to talk people with high stress levels and little time through simple calming techniques.- 29th October 2010
Highlight: a good night’s sleep through autogenic training
Meditation techniques can help to break the vicious cycle linking poor sleep and chronic health problems according to a new research study involving patients at The Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine. The paper published in the European Journal of Integrative Medicine asks ‘Can improvements in sleep be used as an indicator of the wider... - 19th October 2010
e-book testers wanted!
We’re nearly ready to launch our new e-book collection, but first we’d like to ask a few members what they think about the format. You’ll get to take a look at 5 titles for a week or so and then we’d like you to complete a short survey. Members, please drop us a line if... - 8th September 2010
Service upgrade part 1
We are pleased to announce that we will be improving access to all our esubscriptions. This is stage one of a preparation to offer a broader collection of ebooks. It should be a seamless experience for our users, but you may experience a little wobbliness in the service between 8pm and 10pm on Wednesday 8th... - 20th August 2010
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,... - 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... 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...- 15th June 2010
FACT is re-established
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...
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