This study aimed to distinguish between the usage of complementary medicine and alternative medicine, often jointly referred to as CAM. Furthermore, the analysis focuses on the role of religion, ...

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 ...

Traditional medical and therapeutic methods have improved over the years, but often they do not completely lessen or ...

There is an important difference between a complementary therapy and an alternative therapy. People often use the terms complementary therapy and alternative therapy as if they mean the same thing.

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, ...