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  1. Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange (CATIE)
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  2. Canadian Health Food Association
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  3. Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  4. Magical Thinking in Complementary and Alternative Medicine
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2001
  5. Medicine Wars Will Alternative and Mainstream Medicine Ever Be Friends
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2001
  6. Trick or Treatment?
    Alternative Medicine on Trial (North American title: Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine)

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    Evaluates the scientific evidence for acupuncture, homeopathy, herbal medicine, and chiropractic, and briefly covers 36 other treatments. It finds that the scientific evidence for these alternative treatments is generally lacking. Homeopathy is concluded to be completely ineffective: "It's nothing but a placebo, despite what homeopaths say"
    Although the book presents evidence that acupuncture, chiropractic and herbal remedies have limited efficacy for certain ailments, the authors conclude that the dangers of these treatments outweigh any potential benefits. Such potential risks outlined by the authors are contamination or unexpected interactions between components in the case of herbal medicine, risk of infection in the case of acupuncture and the potential for chiropractic manipulation of the neck to cause delayed stroke.

Experts on Complementary Therapies in the Sources Directory

  1. Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange (CATIE)
  2. Canadian Health Food Association

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