Nonprofit organization dedicated to researching and providing scientific and proven information on the safety and health benefits of botanicals, particularly Chinese herbal medicine. Emphasis is on making herbal medicine information available for scientists, complementary and conventional doctors, legislators, the herb industry and the public.
This informative site by Dr. Stephen Barrett provides comprehensive nutritional information about nutrition and food safety. In also contains analysis of health claims made by nutrition-related products emphasizing warnings against illegal or inappropriate claims.
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCIH)
This is a factual and reliable site maintained by one of the centers of the National Institutes of Health, specifically to promote and disseminate information regarding complementary medicine.
A site maintained by cancer survivor Steve Dunn – this site contains practical guidelines to those who want basic information about cancer, trials, and help regarding how to rationally make treatment choice decisions. Particularly inspiring is the quoted piece from Stephen Jay Gould’s “The Median Isn’t the Message” which offers deep and humane advice about confronting the statistics and finding true hope through reason and understanding. It can also be very helpful to read Stories of other patients on this site and see how they’ve coped with difficult situations.
NCI (National Cancer Institute)
This federal site provides access to current info on cancer diagnosis and treatment, including the National Cancer Institute’s database on cancer care, a registry of cancer trials worldwide, and directories of physicians and institutions providing cancer care. On the site is also found selected articles from the Journal of National Cancer Institute and entry to CANCERLIT, which provides citations and abstracts from the NCI bibliographic database. Patients and families will find extensive info on cancer screening and prevention, as well as support.
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®) that develops these guidelines is a not-for-profit alliance of 31 leading cancer centers devoted to patient care, research, and education.
An award winning comprehensive jump-off site for over 100 pages and 4000 links to [conventional] cancer info on the net maintained by Simon Cotterill of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
This is the intriguing substance which purportedly cures cancer that Dr Joseph Gold of Syracuse Cancer Research Institute controversially claims has been suppressed by the FDA. Perhaos watch Jay Diamond’s interview Kathy Keeton on youtube.
Ralph Moss is one of the foremosts expert in the area of alternative cancer care and provides a unique service to cancer patients with a personalized review of appropriate and available treatments for specific cancers. Do not miss his books and the Moss’s podcasts with prominent practitioners on various aspects of alternative cancer care.
This is the starting point for a search for potential clinical trials based on cancer type, stage and location etc.
This is the excellent and trusted comprehensive resource site put up by the University of Pennsylvania Cacer Center for cancer patients.
An excellent online prostate cancer support site.
This Washington University site provides visitors with personalized estimates of their cancer risk for the 12 most common types of cancer as well as prevention tips.
Institute for Traditional Medicine
A highly credible site mainted by the Institute of Traditional Medicine, which is an educational non-profit institute directed by respected herbalist Subhuti Dharmananda, a member of our parent institute’s Advisory Board. This site maintains a large catalog of monographs of Chinese medicine treatments for specific conditions, specific Chinese herbs, as well as acupuncture.
Oriental Medicine Resources includes a large array of weblinks worth exploring.
Useful Links to Chinese Medicine resources is maintained on Australia’s RMIT University’s site.
Bibliography of acupuncture research (old)
An extensive site offering 2302 citations on acupuncture from January 1970 through October 1997, Prepared by Lori J. Klein, M.A.L.S., National Library of Medicine and Alan I. Trachtenberg, M.D., M.P.H., National Institute on Drug Abuse
Good introduction to acupuncture including applicability of acupuncture on various health conditions e.g. backpain etc.
Tibetan Medicine – Basic principles: this is an overview and introduction to Tibetan Medicine by Dr. Alexander Berzin.
History of Tibetan Medicine as relayed by Men Tsee Khang – the Tibetan Institute of Medicine and Astrology, which was established by the Dalai Lama in 1916 to preserve and promote traditional Tibetan medicine and astrology.
Tibetan Medicine Resources is a concise list of popular as well as academic titles related to Tibetan medicine theory, practice and its materia medica.
The knowledge of Healing is the best documentary on Tibetan Medicine to date: watch it on Amazon.
A partial list of Tibetan Medicine clinics internationally maintained by Stephan Kloos who is a medical anthropologist and reseacher in Austria.
