In order to minimize the health
risks of alternative treatments, it's important to talk to your doctor before adding such treatments to your health regimen.
Work on cost - effectiveness carried out as part of the previous HTA report on this topic [60] and by the Decision Support Unit at the National Institute for Health & Clinical Excellence (NICE)[61] suggests that group - clinic based parenting programmes are likely to be cost - effective or may lead to cost - savings through
avoidance of alternative treatment.
«This information may be important to patients and their physicians as they weigh the risks and benefits
of alternative treatment strategies for attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder,» she added in a hospital news release.
His clinical interests include sports medicine and rehabilitation, cranial cruciate ligament injury including the investigation
of alternative treatment methods, injury prevention, minimally invasive surgery (arthroscopy) and arthritis.
After using conventional therapies for several years, Dr. Messonnier became convinced that many pets that were not improving with lifelong use of conventional medications might improve if some
type of alternative treatment were available.
The researchers noted that the decline may be related to the decreasing incidence of cervical cancer and increased
adoption of alternative treatment techniques, such as intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT).
Discussions of alternative treatment strategies, such as neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by surgical cytoreduction and adjuvant chemotherapy are included, together with the management of recurrent ovarian cancer, both from a surgical perspective and from a perspective of chemotherapeutic agents.
After years of trying all
sorts of alternative treatments, nothing seemed to get me to a place where I could eat any foods that weren't specially prepared for me (no seasoning, spices, oils, etc.).
Several major alternative treatment programs, such as the Kelley Metabolic program, Hulda Clark, the Gerson Treatment, and others, swear by coffee enemas as a REQUIRED
part of any alternative treatment.
We sadly, but without expectation, took him to the animal hospital that afternoon for a blood transfusion, in hopes this temporary measure would help him through as the doctors speculated a possible
course of alternative treatment.
To that end, in addition to our extensive list of traditional medical, dental, diagnostic and surgical services, we also offer an
array of alternative treatment methods, including acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine and laser therapy.
These are questions that may have crossed your mind if you've had a serious illness or condition such as sleep apnea or cancer; or if you avoid mainstream medicine in
favor of alternative treatments, reject medical treatment as a tenet of your religion or refuse treatment for a potentially life - threatening issue.
(The actor said on a pre-taped segment of The Dr. Oz Show Tuesday that he had stopped taking his meds for about a week, but didn't reveal what
kind of alternative treatment he was receiving in the meantime.)
Given rapid advances in recent years in delivering
both of these alternative treatments, «this kind of information is very important to clinicians and patients to help inform decision making,» says Allison Goldfine, MD, head of clinical research at Joslin during the trial and senior author on a paper published this month in Diabetes Care.
Neither of the alternative treatments appeared to offer a significant benefit over the other, however, the study found.
Some of the alternative treatments recommended for chronic insomnia were the herbs skullcap, valerian, and passionflower.