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The Alternative & Complementary Medicine Center
The Alternative & Complementary Medicine Center is one of the most comprehensive global health networks on the Internet, including an excellent guide to understanding alternative medicine.
The Alternative Medicine Foundation
This site provides evidence-based research resources for health care professionals and responsible and reliable information for patients and consumers about the integration of alternative and conventional medicine.
The Alternative Medicine Homepage
This site is a "jumpstation for sources of information on unconventional, unorthodox, unproven, or alternative, complementary, innovative, integrative therapies."
HerbMed
HerbMed is an interactive, electronic herbal database that provides access to the scientific data underlying the use of herbs for health.
MEDLINEplus Health Information: Alternative Medicine
This site links to a wide variety of information on alternative medicine provided by the National Library of Medicine. It includes information from the National Institutes of Health, information on current research and clinical trials, links to organizations and directories, and much more.
MEDLINEplus Health Information: Herbal Medicine
This site, from the National Library of Medicine, focuses on herbal medicine.
National Center for Complementary & Alternative Medicine
This site provides both a searchable database and an index of approximately 180,000 bibliographic citations from 1963 to 1998, obtained from the National Library of Medicine's Medline database. Other topics on NCCAM's Web site include: Complementary and Alternative Medicine databases; NCCAM research; clinical trial opportunities; research policies, applications, and guidelines; NCCAM's newsletter; press releases; and minutes of NCCAM-sponsored meetings.
NOAH (New York Online Access to Health)
This site is maintained by medical librarians who find, organize and arrange full-text consumer health information that is current, relevant, accurate and unbiased. It is also available in Spanish.
Richard and Hilda Rosenthal Center- Alternative Medicine
This center, at Columbia University, was one of the first centers at a major medical school, devoted to research, education and training in complementary and alternative medicine. This site provides links to information resources developed by the staff and link to internet resources, a directory of databases, listings of alternative medicine training programs and much more.
Yahoo! Health - Alternative Medicine
Yahoo! Health is an excellent directory that provides access to information on various forms of alternative medicine including acupuncture, homeopathy, massage therapy, and yoga.

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Last Updated: Friday, 15-Aug-2008 14:57:55 EDT