Higher dietary intake of folate was associated with a lower prevalence of depressive symptoms in Japanese men but not women, according to researchers at the International Medical Center of Japan in Tokyo. (more…)

Pharmacy students view education about CAM as a core and integral part of their professional degree. (more…)

There’s an online newsletter, CAM at the NIH, posted by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) that you might want to check out.

This issue lists priorities for future acupuncture research. (more…)

 Attorney General Eric Holder says the US Justice Department will no longer raid medical marijuana clubs. His declaration is a fulfillment of a campaign promise by Barack Obama, and marks a major shift from the previous administration.

In fact, there’s scant support for medical marijuana based on medical science.  Here’s what’s been published in just the past 6 months. (more…)

Despite negative results, researchers from Denmark think another, larger study is needed. (more…)

 NIHSeniorHealth is a website that features health and wellness information for older adults from the National Institutes of Health.

Now, it’s added a CAM link. (more…)

 Researchers from Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital in Hualien, Taiwan report that long-term administration of Lactobacillus rhamnosus T cell-1  decreased the incidence of bacterial infection in children.

Well, maybe it did… but maybe it didn’t. (more…)

 Yes, it’s effective short term, according to researchers at Southern California University of Health Sciences at Whittier.

It’s the latest in a series of reviews (here, here, and here) on this topic in the past few years. (more…)

This study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill compared the response to each activity in high-risk women who were sedentary and had experienced pre-eclampsia previously. (more…)

 There were significant gains in strength, according to researchers at the University of Florida in Gainesville. (more…)