Other Sites of Interest

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MOST USEFUL INFORMATION RESOURCES

About Herbs – Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Concise, evidence-based summaries of a wide variety
of herbs and supplements.

Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database
Very comprehensive, extremely detailed monographs covering just about every herb and supplement.

Natural Standards
Provides high quality, evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies.

Cochrane Library
Rigorous reviews of many CAM therapies, using
impeccable, standardized methodology.

UpToDate
Short reviews of a few of the most common CAM therapies.

Herbmed.org
A clearinghouse of links. Most are from MEDLINE, plus harder to find information regarding cultivation, folk uses, pictures, etc.

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ASSESSING QUALITY

Consumer Labs
A company that tests the quality of specific commercial products and presents the results in an easy to use format.

NCCAM
Official website of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine __________________________________________

OTHER INFORMATION RESOURCES

Micromedex

CAM Section within UW HealthLinks

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OTHER CAM GRANT WEBSITES

American Medical Student Association

Boston Children's Hospital

The University of California, San Francisco

The University of Minnesota

Rush University

University of Washington School of Nursing

Wake Forest - Holistic and Integrative Medicine Program