Useful links to complementary medicine websites
The following are links to websites that deal with specific areas of interest, or that are published by colleagues in the field.
The Centre for Complementary and Integrated Medicine: Articles about Complementary and Integrated Medicine. Website: www.complemed.co.uk
NHS Evidence - complementary and alternative medicine: Finding, evaluating and presenting quality information and evidence on CAM. Formerly a Specialist Library of the National Library for Health. Website: www.library.nhs.uk/cam
Thorne Research: Publisher of Alternative Medicine Review, offering literature reviews, original research, editorial comment, monographs, and book reviews on Alternative Medicine. Website: www.thorne.com
Mindd Foundation: Mindd runs seminars in Australia and New Zealand and endorses events worldwide that promote effective treatments for autism, ADHD, allergies, asthma and related neurobiological disorders.
Website: mindd.org
Linus Pauling Institute, Oregon State University: Linua Pauling is often considered the founding father of molecular biology, which has transformed the biological sciences and medicine and provided the base for biotechnology. Website: lpi.oregonstate.edu
MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas: Clinical Trials in Integrative Oncology - strictly controlled human studies of new and emerging therapies. Website:www.mdanderson.org
Medline Plus: Information about Herbal Medicine, from the US National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health. Website: www.nlm.nih.gov
Mercola.com: Natural Health News. Website: www.mercola.com
Centre for Advanced Medicine: Provides EDTA Chelation Therapy and High Dose, Intravenous Vitamin C treatments for patients with heart disease, angina, intermittant claudication, cancer, immune disease, chronic fatigue and many other illnesses. Website: www.camltd.co.nz
Dr. John Lee: Information Source for natural progesterone, hormone balance and bioidentical hormone replacement therapy. Website: www.johnleemd.com
Uzzi Reiss, MD: Specialises in anti-aging medicine for men and women, and gynecological services based on nutritional and hormonal approaches. Website: www.uzzireissmd.com
ACNEM (Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine): An independent post-graduate medical college and non-profit organisation, open to all registered medical doctors. Associate membership is available to registered health providers with tertiary degrees, such as pharmacists, chiropractors, psychologists and registered nurses. Website: www.acnem.org
Australasian Integrative Medicine Association: An independent not-for-profit organisation of individual medical practitioners seeking to provide whole person medical care by integrating evidence-based complementary medicine into mainstream practice. Website: www.aima.net.au
O2 Health: Offers Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) through skilled staff with custom-built, state of the art equipment.www.o2health.co.nz
FxMed: FxMed believes that there is a need to provide high quality nutritional products and testing services with top level technical support for practitioners interested in Integrative and Prevention/Natural Medicine. Website: www.fxmed.co.nz
Metagenics: Metagenics is the 'practitioner only' products division of Health World Limited - the Australian and New Zealand leader in research and development of specialised nutritional supplements for healthcare professionals. Website: www.metagenics.co.nz
Pharmaceutical Compounding New Zealand: A GMP registered compounding pharmacy providing customised medicines and specialising in bio-identical hormone therapy. Affiliated internationlly with Clinical Pharmacist and Physician networks. Website: www.pharmaceutical.co.nz/