In recent years, an increasing number of individuals in the United States have turned to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) to address their healthcare needs. Over the past two decades, ...

A stunning one-third of people with a cancer diagnosis use complementary and alternative medicines such as meditation, yoga, acupuncture, herbal medicine, and supplements. A stunning one-third of ...

When you have cancer, you’ll want to do everything you can to get well and feel better during treatment. Chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation are the usual treatments. But many people with cancer also ...

Are nontraditional therapies like hypnosis, acupuncture and meditation safe and effective during pregnancy? Here's what to know.

There are some benefits and potentially serious risks when people with heart failure use complementary and alternative medicines (CAM), to manage symptoms, so involving the health care team is ...

About a third of cancer patients use alternative medicine — but many of them don’t tell their doctors, according to a new research letter published in JAMA Oncology. Complementary and alternative ...

As part of its plans to provide global scientific and strategic guidance for integrating traditional medicine into health systems and developing global standards, the World Health Organisation (WHO) ...

Twelve years ago, at a conference in St James’s Palace, Prince Charles mused to an audience that he "felt proud" of having once been called "the enemy of the Enlightenment". Revisiting traditional ...

A major new review has put hundreds of alternative autism treatments under the microscope—and most didn’t hold up. Scientists ...