Alternative
Health Information 
Menstuff® lists resources that offer a different perspective
from main stream thinking regarding health. It includes information
on Alternative and Complimentary health.
- Alternative Medicine Foundation, Inc., 5411 West Cedar
Ln., Suite 205-A, Bethesda, MD 20814, 1.301.581.0116 or
1.888.258.4420, Fax: 1.301.581.0119 or amfi@amfoundation.org
or www.amfoundation.org/index.htm
- CAM on PubMed
CAM on PubMed, a database accessible via the Internet, was
developed jointly by NCCAM and the National Library of Medicine
(NLM). It contains bibliographic citations to articles in
scientifically based, peer-reviewed journals on CAM. These
citations are a subset of the NLM's PubMed system that contains
over 12 million journal citations from the MEDLINE database and
additional life science journals important to health researchers,
practitioners, and consumers. CAM on PubMed displays links to
publisher Web sites; some sites offer the full text of
articles.
Source: www.nlm.nih.gov/nccam/camonpubmed.html
- ClinicalTrials.gov
ClinicalTrials.gov provides patients, family members, health
care professionals, and members of the public access to
information on clinical trials for a wide range of diseases and
conditions. The National Institutes of Health (NIH), through its
National Library of Medicine, has developed this site in
collaboration with all NIH Institutes and the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration. The site currently contains more than 6,200
clinical studies sponsored by NIH, other Federal agencies, and the
pharmaceutical industry in over 69,000 locations worldwide.
Source: clinicaltrials.gov
- Complaint Reporting
To report a general complaint or concern about food products,
including dietary supplements, you may contact the consumer
complaint coordinator at the FDA District Office nearest you.
Visit www.fda.gov/opacom/backgrounders/complain.html
to find the telephone number of your district office or check in
the government listings in your phone book.
- Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
The FTC works for the consumer to prevent fraudulent,
deceptive, and unfair business practices in the marketplace and to
provide information to help consumers spot, stop, and avoid them.
To file a complaint or to get free information on consumer issues,
call toll-free 1.877.FTC.HELP, or use the online complaint form
found at www.ftc.gov. Consumers who want to learn how to recognize
fraudulent or unproved health care products and services can learn
more at www.ftc.gov/cureall
- National Institutes of Health, National Center for
Complementary & Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), P.O. Box 8218,
Silver Spring, MD 20907-8218. 888.644.6226, Fax: 1.301.495.4957,
TTY: 1.888.644.6226 or nccam.nih.gov/
- NIH Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS)
The ODS, whose mission is to explore the potential role of
dietary supplements to improve health care, promotes the
scientific study of dietary supplements through conducting and
coordinating scientific research and compiling and disseminating
research results. ODS provides all its public information through
its Web site. One of its services is the International
Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS) database,
at ods.od.nih.gov/databases/ibids.html. Source:
ods.od.nih.gov
6100 Executive Blvd., Bethesda, MD 20892-7517
- National Library of Medicine (NLM)
NLM is the world's largest medical library. Services include
MEDLINE, NLM's premier bibliographic database covering the fields
of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health
care system, and preclinical science. MEDLINE contains indexed
journal citations and abstracts from more than 4,600 journals
published in the United States and more than 70 other countries.
MEDLINE is accessible through NLM's PubMed system at pubmed.gov.
NLM also maintains DIRLINE (dirline.nlm.nih.gov), a database that
contains locations and descriptive information about a variety of
health organizations, including CAM associations and
organizations.
Source: 1.888.346.3656 or www.nlm.nih.gov
or 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894 or Fax:
1.301.402.1384
1 Conventional medicine is medicine as practiced by holders
of M.D. (medical doctor) or D.O. (doctor of osteopathy) degrees
and by their allied health professionals, such as physical
therapists, psychologists, and registered nurses. Other terms for
conventional medicine include allopathy; Western, mainstream,
orthodox, and regular medicine; and biomedicine. Some conventional
medical practitioners are also practitioners of CAM.
2 "Dietary supplements" were defined by Congress in a law
passed in 1994. A dietary supplement is a product (other than
tobacco) taken by mouth that contains a "dietary ingredient"
intended to supplement the diet. Dietary ingredients may include
vitamins, minerals, herbs or other botanicals, amino acids, and
substances such as enzymes, organ tissues, and metabolites. Under
current law, dietary supplements are considered foods, not drugs.
NCCAM has provided this material for your information. It is not
intended to substitute for the medical expertise and advice of
your primary health care provider. We encourage you to discuss any
decisions about treatment or care with your health care provider.
The mention of any product, service, or therapy in this
information is not an endorsement by NCCAM. NCCAM Publication No.
D167, August 2002 Source: www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtPrint/WSIHW000/8513/31412/311996.html?d=dmtContent&hide=t&k=basePrint
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
FDA's mission is to promote and protect the public health by
helping safe and effective products reach the market in a timely
way, and monitoring products for continued safety after they are
in use. To report serious adverse events or illnesses related to
FDA-regulated products, such as drugs, medical devices, medical
foods, and dietary supplements, contact MedWatch: 1.800.FDA.1088,
Fax: 1.800.FDA.0178, www.fda.gov/medwatch/report/consumer/consumer.htm
1.888.INFO.FDA or 1.888.463.6332 or www.fda.gov
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