Patients' use of alternative and complementary health services has created a need for
physicians to become informed about the current literature regarding these treatments. Herbal …

Purpose:To conduct a systematic review of reasons for and sociodemographic and disease
characteristics associated with complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use in …

Background Vitiligo is a hypopigmentation disorder affecting 1 to 4% of the world population.
Fifty percent of cases appear before the age of 20 years old, and the disfigurement results …

… See Boon et al. 2000 for additional details on the 1998 data collection [8]. In 2005, the
survey was mailed to 877 women who were diagnosed with breast cancer between 2001 and …

… H Boon received salary support as a CIHR New Investigator during this study. The views
expressed in this article and any errors or omissions are the responsibility of the authors. No …

Background Medical pluralism has flourished throughout the Western world in spite of
efforts to legitimize Western biomedical healthcare as “conventional medicine” and thereby …

Background Natural health products (NHPs) such as herbs, vitamins and homeopathic
medicines, are currently available for sale in most Canadian pharmacies. However, most …

Background The purpose of this constructivist grounded theory study was to develop a
theoretical model that explains women's processes of managing diagnosed depression when …

Objective: To re port 2 cases of ad verse re ac tions to St John's wort, a pop u lar herbal treat
ment for de pression. Method: We pres ent 2 case his to ries and re view the ex ist ing lit er a …

Cognitive biases have been found to be associated with delusions in schizophrenia and
schizotypy. In the current study, we examined the relationship between subclinical delusional …