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			    <title><![CDATA[The Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine]]></title>
			    <link>http://sram.org/articles</link>
			    <description>Devoted to objectively analyzing the claims of alternative medicine.</description>
			
			
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		    <dc:rights>Copyright 2001</dc:rights>
	
		    <dc:date>2001-10-01T20:35:50+00:00</dc:date>
    
			
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					<title><![CDATA[The Use of a Dietary Supplement Combination and an Essential Fatty Acid for Children with ADHD]]></title>
					<link>http://sram.org/articles/dietary_supplement_combination_and_an_essential_fatty_acid_for_children</link>
					<guid>http://sram.org/articles/dietary_supplement_combination_and_an_essential_fatty_acid_for_children#02-35-36Z</guid>
					<description><![CDATA[We investigated the efficacy of a dietary supplement combination (Ginkgo biloba, Melissa officinalis, Grapine, dimethylaminoethanol, and l-glutamine) and an essential fatty acid (flaxseed) as a treatment for inattentiveness and hyperactivity-impulsivity.]]></description>
					<dc:subject><![CDATA[Original Research]]></dc:subject>
					<dc:date>2001-10-02T02:35:36+00:00</dc:date>
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					<title><![CDATA[Review of the Evidence for the Clinical Efficacy of Human Acupuncture]]></title>
					<link>http://sram.org/articles/review_of_the_evidence_for_the_clinical_efficacy_of_human_acupuncture</link>
					<guid>http://sram.org/articles/review_of_the_evidence_for_the_clinical_efficacy_of_human_acupuncture#02-28-17Z</guid>
					<description><![CDATA[Taken as a group, reviews of clinical studies published since 1990 on the clinical efficacy of acupuncture do not support the notion that acupuncture is effective for any variety of conditions and cast doubt on efficacy for some specific conditions for which acupuncture has been reported as effective.]]></description>
					<dc:subject><![CDATA[Analyses]]></dc:subject>
					<dc:date>2001-10-02T02:28:17+00:00</dc:date>
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					<title><![CDATA[“Alternative” Medicine: A Review of Studies Supported by Grants Awarded by the NCCAM]]></title>
					<link>http://sram.org/articles/alternative_medicine_a_review_of_studies_supported_by_grants_awarded_by_the</link>
					<guid>http://sram.org/articles/alternative_medicine_a_review_of_studies_supported_by_grants_awarded_by_the#02-22-46Z</guid>
					<description><![CDATA[There is no alternative to science-based medicine, just as there is no alternative to astronomy or chemistry unless one accepts astrology or alchemy.]]></description>
					<dc:subject><![CDATA[Analyses]]></dc:subject>
					<dc:date>2001-10-02T02:22:46+00:00</dc:date>
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					<title><![CDATA[Stated Goals and Grants of the Office of Alternative Medicine/NCCAM]]></title>
					<link>http://sram.org/articles/stated_goals_and_grants_of_the_office_of_alternative_medicine_nccam</link>
					<guid>http://sram.org/articles/stated_goals_and_grants_of_the_office_of_alternative_medicine_nccam#02-08-09Z</guid>
					<description><![CDATA[On the basis of grants and reports from the first 9 years of existence, the NCCAM awards have not produced useful information.]]></description>
					<dc:subject><![CDATA[Analyses]]></dc:subject>
					<dc:date>2001-10-02T02:08:09+00:00</dc:date>
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					<title><![CDATA[“Alternative” Medicine Survey Distortions: An Early Critique]]></title>
					<link>http://sram.org/articles/alternative_medicine_survey_distortions_an_early_critique</link>
					<guid>http://sram.org/articles/alternative_medicine_survey_distortions_an_early_critique#01-44-43Z</guid>
					<description><![CDATA[HAVING TRACKED NONSCIENTIFIC HEALTH CARE for more than 20 years as part of an epidemiological analysis of quackery in the United States and Canada, I believe that the study by Eisenberg et al. provided useful data on the utilization of nonmedical services by the public. Unfortunately, the media are using it to send an erroneous message that an alleged increase in “alternative” medicine use is prompted by a growing disaffection with mainstream health care.]]></description>
					<dc:subject><![CDATA[Analyses]]></dc:subject>
					<dc:date>2001-10-02T01:44:43+00:00</dc:date>
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					<title><![CDATA[White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy: A Membership Directory]]></title>
					<link>http://sram.org/articles/white_house_commission_on_complementary_and_alternative_medicine_policy_a_m</link>
					<guid>http://sram.org/articles/white_house_commission_on_complementary_and_alternative_medicine_policy_a_m#01-37-16Z</guid>
					<description><![CDATA[ON MARCH 7, 2000, PRESIDENT CLINTON announced the creation of a White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy (WHCCAMP). Executive Order 13147 called for a commission of no more than 15 members who “shall provide a report, through the Secretary of Health and Human Services, to the President on legislative and administrative recommendations for assuring that public policy maximizes the benefits to Americans of complementary and alternative medicine.”]]></description>
					<dc:subject><![CDATA[Commentaries]]></dc:subject>
					<dc:date>2001-10-02T01:37:16+00:00</dc:date>
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					<title><![CDATA[The Office of Alternative Medicine/NCCAM Should Be Abolished]]></title>
					<link>http://sram.org/articles/the_office_of_alternative_medicine_nccam_should_be_abolished</link>
					<guid>http://sram.org/articles/the_office_of_alternative_medicine_nccam_should_be_abolished#01-35-15Z</guid>
					<description><![CDATA[THE OFFICE OF ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE (OAM) OF the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was mandated by Congress in 1991 and launched in 1992 with an annual budget of $2 million. Congress has increased the office’s budget steadily, to $12 million this year.]]></description>
					<dc:subject><![CDATA[Commentaries]]></dc:subject>
					<dc:date>2001-10-02T01:35:15+00:00</dc:date>
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					<title><![CDATA[Notes on James S. Gordon, MD, Chair of the WHCCAMP]]></title>
					<link>http://sram.org/articles/notes_on_james_s._gordon_md_chair_of_the_whccamp</link>
					<guid>http://sram.org/articles/notes_on_james_s._gordon_md_chair_of_the_whccamp#21-50-34Z</guid>
					<description><![CDATA[JAMES S. GORDON, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE WHITE House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy, is a clinical professor of psychiatry and family medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine.]]></description>
					<dc:subject><![CDATA[Commentaries]]></dc:subject>
					<dc:date>2001-10-01T21:50:34+00:00</dc:date>
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					<title><![CDATA[Acupuncture Legislation: What Is the Point?]]></title>
					<link>http://sram.org/articles/acupuncture_legislation_what_is_the_point</link>
					<guid>http://sram.org/articles/acupuncture_legislation_what_is_the_point#20-41-22Z</guid>
					<description><![CDATA[TRADITIONAL CHINESE ACUPUNCTURE (TCA) was introduced to the US in 1972 as a “miracle cure-all.” In 1974 the American Medical Association (AMA) warned against acupuncture quackery and in 1982 the AMA Council on Scientific Affairs questioned its effectiveness as a medical treatment.]]></description>
					<dc:subject><![CDATA[Commentaries]]></dc:subject>
					<dc:date>2001-10-01T20:41:22+00:00</dc:date>
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					<title><![CDATA[Anomalous Improvement]]></title>
					<link>http://sram.org/articles/anomalous_improvement</link>
					<guid>http://sram.org/articles/anomalous_improvement#20-35-50Z</guid>
					<description><![CDATA[I AM WRITING IN REGARD TO THE CASE REPORT IN THE Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine attributing an apparent cure of glioblastoma multiforme to psychic healing. The medical history of this child is consistent with anomalous improvement.]]></description>
					<dc:subject><![CDATA[Letters to the Editor]]></dc:subject>
					<dc:date>2001-10-01T20:35:50+00:00</dc:date>
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					<title><![CDATA[The Golden Guru]]></title>
					<link>http://sram.org/articles/the_golden_guru</link>
					<guid>http://sram.org/articles/the_golden_guru#20-31-18Z</guid>
					<description><![CDATA[It is first and obviously a record of one of the more remarkable sociopolitical episodes in Oregon history, if not that of the whole United States.]]></description>
					<dc:subject><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></dc:subject>
					<dc:date>2001-10-01T20:31:18+00:00</dc:date>
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					<title><![CDATA[Effects of Banisteriopsis caapi Extract on Parkinson’s Disease]]></title>
					<link>http://sram.org/articles/effects_of_embanisteriopsis_caapi_em_extract_on_parkinsons_disease</link>
					<guid>http://sram.org/articles/effects_of_embanisteriopsis_caapi_em_extract_on_parkinsons_disease#19-13-52Z</guid>
					<description><![CDATA[We now report the first double-blind, randomized placebo-controlled trial of a Banisteriopsis caapi (BC) extract for treatment of Parkinson’s disease (PD). A single dose of BC administered to de novo PD patients resulted in significant improvement in motor function evidenced by decline in the Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) score.]]></description>
					<dc:subject><![CDATA[Original Research]]></dc:subject>
					<dc:date>2001-08-01T19:13:52+00:00</dc:date>
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					<title><![CDATA[Veterinary Acupuncture and Historical Scholarship: Claims for the Antiquity of Acupuncture]]></title>
					<link>http://sram.org/articles/veterinary_acupuncture_and_historical_scholarship_claims_for_the_antiquity</link>
					<guid>http://sram.org/articles/veterinary_acupuncture_and_historical_scholarship_claims_for_the_antiquity#19-06-52Z</guid>
					<description><![CDATA[Claims for the antiquity of acupuncture are ubiquitous in both the human and veterinary acupuncture and popular literature. These claims are not supported by the historical record.]]></description>
					<dc:subject><![CDATA[Reviews]]></dc:subject>
					<dc:date>2001-08-01T19:06:52+00:00</dc:date>
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					<title><![CDATA[Acupuncture Points and Meridians Do Not Exist]]></title>
					<link>http://sram.org/articles/acupuncture_points_and_meridians_do_not_exist</link>
					<guid>http://sram.org/articles/acupuncture_points_and_meridians_do_not_exist#18-56-52Z</guid>
					<description><![CDATA[There is, as yet, no convincing evidence that either acupuncture points or meridians exist as discrete entities. In addition, there are vast differences between the historical location of points and meridians and current practice.]]></description>
					<dc:subject><![CDATA[Reviews]]></dc:subject>
					<dc:date>2001-08-01T18:56:52+00:00</dc:date>
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					<title><![CDATA[Homeopathy and Critical Thinking]]></title>
					<link>http://sram.org/articles/homeopathy_and_critical_thinking</link>
					<guid>http://sram.org/articles/homeopathy_and_critical_thinking#18-49-52Z</guid>
					<description><![CDATA[A good example of a claim not worth studying is homeopathy.]]></description>
					<dc:subject><![CDATA[Reviews]]></dc:subject>
					<dc:date>2001-08-01T18:49:52+00:00</dc:date>
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					<title><![CDATA[Convergence and Divergence of Scientific and &ldquo;Alternative&rdquo; Medicine: Historical Moments]]></title>
					<link>http://sram.org/articles/convergence_and_divergence_of_scientific_and_alternative_medicine_historica</link>
					<guid>http://sram.org/articles/convergence_and_divergence_of_scientific_and_alternative_medicine_historica#18-41-52Z</guid>
					<description><![CDATA[In the context of the present situation we will analyze 3 historical moments chosen because each reveals the relationship between culture, politics, and medical power.]]></description>
					<dc:subject><![CDATA[Commentaries]]></dc:subject>
					<dc:date>2001-08-01T18:41:52+00:00</dc:date>
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					<title><![CDATA[The Irrational Reformation: Part 2]]></title>
					<link>http://sram.org/articles/the_irrational_reformation_part_2</link>
					<guid>http://sram.org/articles/the_irrational_reformation_part_2#18-32-52Z</guid>
					<description><![CDATA[IN THE EARLY SEVENEENTH CENTURY, MANUSCRIPTS purported to be pre-Mosaic in origin began to circulate in Germany. These so-called Rosicrucian manifestos were the purported ancient truths, the “perennial philosophy” held to be the origin of all human religions.]]></description>
					<dc:subject><![CDATA[Commentaries]]></dc:subject>
					<dc:date>2001-08-01T18:32:52+00:00</dc:date>
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					<title><![CDATA[Dancing in the Dark, or Sleeping With the Enemy?]]></title>
					<link>http://sram.org/articles/dancing_in_the_dark_or_sleeping_with_the_enemy</link>
					<guid>http://sram.org/articles/dancing_in_the_dark_or_sleeping_with_the_enemy#19-31-59Z</guid>
					<description><![CDATA[THE JUNE 6, 2000 ISSUE OF ACADEMIC MEDICINE contained an invited article by Stephen E. Straus, MD, director of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM). In justifying the existence of the NCCAM, Dr. Straus’s article accepts presumptions and concepts that will divert medical education from reason and science.]]></description>
					<dc:subject><![CDATA[Reviews]]></dc:subject>
					<dc:date>2001-05-01T19:31:59+00:00</dc:date>
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					<title><![CDATA[The Evidence for Evidence-Based Medicine]]></title>
					<link>http://sram.org/articles/the_evidence_for_evidence_based_medicine</link>
					<guid>http://sram.org/articles/the_evidence_for_evidence_based_medicine#19-24-33Z</guid>
					<description><![CDATA[In recent years the claim that only 20% or less of standard Western medicine is evidence-based has been repeated widely by health professionals and others. This assertion is perhaps most often made by proponents of unproven (“alternative” and “complementary”) therapies with the implication that, if true, it might somehow justify the integration of any number of unconventional modalities with a similar dearth of supporting scientific evidence into mainstream medical practice.]]></description>
					<dc:subject><![CDATA[Commentaries]]></dc:subject>
					<dc:date>2001-05-01T19:24:33+00:00</dc:date>
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					<title><![CDATA[Autogenous Vaccine: A Defense Against the Bacterial Organism That Causes Cancer]]></title>
					<link>http://sram.org/articles/autogenous_vaccine_a_defense_against_the_bacterial_organism_that_causes_can</link>
					<guid>http://sram.org/articles/autogenous_vaccine_a_defense_against_the_bacterial_organism_that_causes_can#19-15-59Z</guid>
					<description><![CDATA[IN 1947, VIRGINIA LIVINGSTON WHEELER PROPOSED that human cancer was caused by an infectious organism, which she observed while she was working with scleroderma patients. She noticed that their skin lesions resembled those of a sarcoma, and since she believed scleroderma was caused by bacteria, she extended that idea to the cause of cancer.]]></description>
					<dc:subject><![CDATA[Analyses]]></dc:subject>
					<dc:date>2001-05-01T19:15:59+00:00</dc:date>
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