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About Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM): Any medical system, practice, or product that is not thought of as standard care.
 

Definitions
 

  • Complementary Medicine: A CAM therapy used along with standard medicine.
  • Alternative Medicine: A CAM therapy used in place of standard treatments.
  • Integrative Medicine: An approach that combines treatments from conventional medicine and CAM for which there is some high-quality evidence of safety and effectiveness.

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