Conventional medicine is the most common type of medicine in the Western world. Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is the term for treatments that are not part of mainstream healthcare. Many ...

There are a number of reasons why people use complementary or alternative therapies. A paper published in 2012 suggested that around half of people with cancer use some sort of complementary therapy, ...

Integrative medicine combines conventional and alternative, or complementary medicine, and is often framed as focusing on emotional and even spiritual aspects of health, as well as on physical ...

Ken Harvey has represented Choice (the Australian Consumers’ Association) on TGA consultations about regulatory reform of complementary medicines. He is also an executive member of Friends of Science ...