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- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality [r]: Organization dedicated to improving the quality of health care in the US. [e]
- Aromatherapy [r]: A form of complementary and alternative medicine whose adherents claim it to be a gentle but effective method of healing and enhancing the mind, body, and spirit through the use of natural oils from aromatic plants, trees and grasses. [e]
- Asthma [r]: Disease process that is characterised by paradoxical narrowing of the bronchi, making breathing difficult. [e]
- Ayurveda [r]: A traditional Hindu system of medicine, part of complementary and alternative medicine, using mind-body interactions and herbs [e]
- Centers for Disease Control [r]: A major center of epidemiologic research and clinical support in epidemics, considered a world resource although part of the United States Public Health Service, located in Atlanta, Georgia, USA [e]
- Chondroitin [r]: A mucopolysaccharide constituent of chondrin. [e]
- Colon (anatomy) [r]: The segment of large intestine between the cecum and the rectum including the ascending colon, the transverse colon, the descending colon, and the sigmoid colon. [e]
- Complementary and alternative medicine [r]: Set of therapies and treatments not considered mainstream or scientific. [e]
- Digital imaging and communications in medicine [r]: A set of technical specifications for putting medical information consisting of images, of all types, into digital form, such that they can be stored in a computer system or transmitted to a remote computer [e]
- Drug Enforcement Administration [r]: Federal government agency charged with enforcing controlled substances laws and regulations in the United States. [e]
- Electroconvulsive therapy [r]: A psychiatric treatment that involves inducing a seizure in a patient by passing electricity through the brain. [e]
- Energy medicine [r]: Techniques in complementary and alternative medicine that involve either the unconventional use of electromagnetic fields, or of biological energies not detectable by conventional instrumentations, to maintain or improve health [e]
- Glucosamine [r]: Amino sugar component of chitin, heparan sulphate, chondroitin sulphate and many complex polysaccharides, used in treatment of osteoarthritis. [e]
- Institute of Medicine [r]: Nonprofit honorific membership organization dedicated to serving as advisor to the nation to improve health. [e]
- Institutional review board [r]: A panel that protects the interests of humans and animals in medical research studies. [e]
- Integrative medicine [r]: Organized health care that involves willing cooperation between mainstream and complementary medicine [e]
- Irritable bowel syndrome [r]: A disorder with chronic or recurrent colonic symptoms without a clearcut etiology (National Library of Medicine). [e]
- Journal of Scientific Exploration [r]: Semiannual journal of the Society for Scientific Exploration, devoted to advancing the study of anomalous phenomena, first published in 1987. [e]
- Julius Axelrod [r]: (30 May 1912 – 29 December 2004) American biochemist whose work was influential in the development of pharmaceuticals. [e]
- Medical education [r]: Learning process of being a medical practitioner, either the initial training to become a doctor or further training thereafter (including residency). [e]
- National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine [r]: Within the U.S. government's National Institutes of Health, the organization concerned with funding and performing research in complementary and alternative medicine, and disseminating its findings [e]
- National Library of Medicine [r]: The world's largest medical library. [e]
- New York City [r]: The largest city in the United States of America and a world center of finance, commerce, communications, and the arts. [e]
- Open access [r]: A movement to lift access barriers to scientific literature. Inspired by the open source movement. [e]
- Pseudoscience [r]: Any theory that supporters claim to be scientific but which the scientific community deems fallacious [e]
- Reiki [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Rheumatoid arthritis [r]: A chronic, inflammatory autoimmune disorder that causes the immune system to attack the joints. [e]
- Tests of the efficacy of homeopathy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Therapeutic touch [r]: A form of energy healing, performed by a therapist positioning hands over the patient's body, and sensing and adjusting energy fields [e]
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services [r]: The primary cabinet-level department of the United States, concerned with health affairs [e]
- Universal precautions [r]: Prudent standard preventive measures to be taken by professional and other health personnel in contact with persons afflicted with a communicable disease, to avoid contracting the disease by contagion or infection (National Library of Medicine). [e]
- Vitamin C [r]: Required by a few mammalian species, including humans and higher primates. It is water-soluble and is usually obtained by eating fruits and vegetables; associated with scurvy (hence its chemical name, ascorbic acid). [e]
- Women's Health Study [r]: Randomized controlled trial whose purpose is to evaluate the effects of vitamin E and low-dose aspirin in prevention of cardiovascular disease and cancer in women. [e]
