| Positive Health Magazine | The Positive Health magazine site www.positivehealth.com is a complementary health web site, it provides information, through full length articles, interviews, research updates, hundreds of links etc. Well laid out and easy to follow it covers almost all areas of complementary medicine Ð written by practitioners, doctors and leaders in their respective fields."Aesclepius Medical Site | Excellent site from Greece. What I liked best was the "Public Information Page," with well-documented information on various possible health dangers. These include the sweetener aspartame, mad cow disease (16 articles), etc. Well written in English and full of important information. From here you can also link to "Greek Doctors in Cyberspace"...which sounds like a Saturday Night Live routine but is actually very informative. |
| Health News Naturally | This magazine is maintained free of charge by Keats Publishing, one of the pioneers in health publishing in the U.S. It contains lots of interesting info on new developments in prevention, with articles on estrogen, herbs, et cetera. | |
| Ontario Guide | This very comprehensive "Guide to Unconventional Therapies" was written by the Ontario Breast Cancer Information Exchange Project (OBCIEP), adapted by the Atlantic Breast Cancer Information Project (ABCIP) and funded by Health Canada. It provides public access to a wide range of health and medical information, but does not attempt to give medical advice or interpretation. | |
| COHIS | The Community Outreach Health Information System of Boston University Medical Center. This site offers one-page summaries of a number of alternative treatments in an attractive, easy-to-use format. | |
Cancer & Natural Medicine |
John Boik is a licensed acupuncturist who developed a strong interest in the effects of natural medicine on cancer patients. He realized that the comprehensive textbook he was looking for did not exist, and so he went out and wrote Cancer and Natural Medicine. The book contains a wealth of information on such topics as initiation and proliferation of cancer, apoptosis, the effects of pH on neoplasia, and the like. This site contains ordering information, plus a number of useful articles. A layperson's version of the book is due out this year. | |
| The "Chantilly" Report | This is one of the best things the U.S. government has ever published on alternative medicine. It is called "Alternative Medicine: Expanding Medical Horizons," but is popularly known as the"Chantilly Report." It was prepared under the auspices of N.I.H.'s memorable Workshop on Alternative Medicine, September 14-16, 1992 and published by the Government Printing Office. Ralph Moss was a member of the Editorial Review Board of the overall Report, cochair and contributing author of the Pharmacological and Biological section. So naturally we think it's pretty good. :-) | |
| The OTA Report | The same site gives access to the hard-fought OTA Report on Unconventional Cancer Treatments, created by the Office of Technology Assessment between 1986 and 1990. A waystation towards the creation of the Office of Alternative Medicine. We have analyzed this report in The Cancer Industry. | |
| Joe Bradley Tapes | Joe Bradley is director of the celebrated Investors' Hotline service. When his wife developed breast cancer in 1995 he used the same research skills he had developed on Wall Street to find the best treatments for her condition. In particular, he consulted with three experts: Drs. Robert Willix, Richard Evans and Ralph W. Moss. With their permission, he taped penetrating interviews with each. The result is a package of tapes, priced at $39.95, that could help others confronting similar crises. | |
| Thorne Homepage | This supplement company offers compilations of Abstracts of newly published research on a wide range of nutritional and medical subjects. Reliable data. For licensed health care practitioners who subscribe they also offer quick access to over 40,000 articles relating to Alternative Medicine. | |
| Pittsburgh Site | This comprehensive Magellan three-star site is a "jumpstation" maintained for the University of Pittsburgh. It contains a wealth of links to many other alternative, complementary and unorthodox medicine sites around the world. It is particularly useful because it contains information about the Office of Alternative Medicine. There are links to some of the Office's grant recipients. | |
| Southwest School of Botanical Medicine | This site is delightful. It is authored by Michael Moore--the herbalist, not the comedian--who is one of the most knowledgeable experts on botanical medicine in the country. (His book "Medicinal Plants of the Mountain West" is not only informative but highly enjoyable.) There's a vast amount of practical hands-on information here, as well as many old illustrations, documents from the era of "Eclectic medicine," etc. | |
| International Health News | IHN is an on-line newsletter edited by Hans Larsen, Msc, ChE of Canada. Its purpose is to provide the reader with effective information to take responsibility for his or her own health and well-being. Larsen has subscribed to about 40 medical journals and then spent many hours sifting through thousands of pages of medical articles. He selects the most interesting articles and summarizes them into concise, understandable abstracts. Many articles are about cancer and are remarkably useful. | |
| Phytochemical Databases | These are the Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases of the Agricultural Research Service, USDA. There are five browsable databases here, including "Medicinal Plants of Native Americans," ten years in the making. You can also search by chemicals and their activities, plants and their uses, etc. (In what other government database can you find out about Chinese herbs to combat the Evil Eye?) Another work of genius from James Duke, Ph.D. and his ethnobotanical colleagues. | |
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An exceptionally attractive botany education resource, maintained by Indiana University's BioTech project. This site focuses on botanical compounds used in cancer treatment and research, mainly chemotherapy. There are illustrations and extended descriptions of about 10 of these (such as the Pacific Yew, to the left), and a table on 60+ others. The authors note that this is NOT a self-help site, as many of these compounds are highly toxic. | |
| Alternative Links | An interesting selection of links to various alternative treatments in a growing list. A useful jumping off point to methods of possible interest, including oxygenation strategies. | |
| Cancer News on the Net | This popular and award-winning site, maintained by Richard K. J. Brown, M.D., offers a jumping off point to a vast array of resources on cancer. In the future they will offer an email service with news on a particular type of cancer. Very worthwhile. |
