Concerns about side effects are a primary reason many people turn to alternative medicine over pharmaceutical approaches. Pregnant women, it turns out, are no different. Studies sh[...]

Breathing exercises are among the most popular alternative therapies for asthmatics. But do they work? According to a recent report by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Qualit[...]

The researchers, who published their results in Archives of Internal Medicine, found that acupuncture outperformed sham treatments and standard care when used by people suffering f[...]

Milk thistle is popular as an alternative treatment for liver disease, but a comprehensive study of patients with hepatitis C finds no real effect from the herb. In the world of al[...]

Many of my patients express their frustration that massage therapy generally is not covered by their health insurance, yet the health benefits seem tremendous for them. [...]

At times I feel like I'm practicing medicine in a tunnel, one where the only way out is to prescribe pharmaceuticals that have gone through double-blind, placebo-controlled tr[...]

There are many types of arthritis, but osteoarthritis — the wear-and-tear-condition that affects us all to one degree or another as we grow older — is mainly a problem [...]

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) maintains and regularly updates library that provides information on the effectiveness of "alternative and complementary treatments," [...]