Researching Alternative Medicine

Curriculum Links  

Acupuncture | Acupressure | Chiropractic | Hypnotism | Homeopathy | Reflexology | Herbal Medicine | Naturopathy | Holistic Medicine | Osteopathic Medicine

Print a copy of your alternative medicine assignment. Print a copy of the brochure rubric. Brochure printing instructions.

Use the high school library's subscription databases for reliable information.

Student Resource Center Gold - for overview information

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center - for topic overviews and viewpoint articles

EBSCOhost: Health Source - for a focused collection of consumer health information

NewsBank InfoWeb - for current newspaper articles on specific complementary and alternative medicine topics

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Use these links to Web sites about Complimentary & Alternative Medicine:

**BEWARE! Many of these links are to commercial Web sites (.com) created to promote a product or a school. You must critically evaluate the information you read.

General Info

Career: Alternative Health Practitioners

Homeopathy Schools

MedlinePlus: Alternative Medicine – Find a topic overview about Alternative Medicine as well as links to related topics from the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.

Cancer Alternative Therapies - look for a section titled "Therapy to treat side effects of medication"

NYS Licensed Professions

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Health Information - NCCAM is a division of the National Institutes of Health and the leading authority on complementary and alternative medicine in the U.S. Look here for information about therapies and treatment modalities.

Alternative Approaches to Mental Health Care

Healthy Living: Complementary Medicine

Acupuncture

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Acupressure

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Homeopathy

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Reflexology

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Herbal Medicine

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Naturopathy

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Holistic medicine

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Osteopathic medicine

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Last updated 29-Sep-2005