Alternative Medicine News

Receiving acupuncture treatment along with routine care was associated with increased health-related and disease-specific quality of life compared with routine care alone in patients with allergic asthma, according to research recently published in The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine.

When men receiving prostate cancer treatment attended twice-weekly, structured yoga classes, they experienced less fatigue and better sexual and urinary function compared with those who did not, according to recent findings.

ED and urgent care center visits at a Colorado hospital increased rapidly among adolescents after the legalization of marijuana for commercialized medical and recreational use, according to recent data.

Mindfulness-based stress reduction practices offer short-term improvements in pain and function for patients with low back pain; however, these improvements were not clinically significant compared with usual care, according to findings published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

Home-based hypnotherapy exercises on a CD were as effective as individual gut-directed hypnotherapy performed by a qualified therapist in children with irritable bowel syndrome or functional abdominal pain syndrome, according to the results of a randomized clinical trial.

Massage therapy was beneficial to patients with chronic back pain, according to research recently published in Pain Management.

Yoga and coherent breathing improved depressive symptoms among adults with major depressive disorder, according to recent findings.

Physicians should understand the herbal medicines that patients with heart disease may take to be able to discuss their clinical implications, despite a lack of evidence-backed benefits, according to a review paper published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Acupuncture improved symptoms in patients with irritable bowel syndrome that were statistically superior to standard of care through 1 year, but ceased to be significantly superior at 2 years, according to the results of a randomized controlled trial.

Recent findings indicated efficacy of an outdoor adventure program for autism symptoms among young children.