"Medical Journeys" is a set of clinical resources reviewed by physicians, meant for the medical team as well as the patients they serve. Each episode of this journey through a disease state contains ...

Can Reiki, reflexology, or the keto diet help during cancer treatment? Here’s what the research says. Receiving a cancer diagnosis and undergoing long-term intensive treatment can often lead to ...

Achieving a Deeper Understanding of the Implemented Provisions of the Affordable Care Act After explaining the treatment plan to a recently-diagnosed patient with cancer, it is not uncommon for ...

Multiple myeloma and the treatments for it can cause pain, fatigue, constipation, loss of appetite, and other unpleasant symptoms. Complementary and alternative treatments may help you relieve these ...

After Marianne Sarcich underwent treatment for breast cancer in 2016, she called an acupuncturist in hopes of easing her cancer-related anxiety—but made sure to be upfront. “I told her right away that ...

Complementary therapies, including exercise and getting enough of certain vitamins, may help support your overall health with Crohn’s disease and relieve your symptoms. Some complementary therapies, ...

Amitkumar Mehta, MD, MBA, University of Alabama at Birmingham, notes the long-term data and potential curative effects of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy, while expressing optimism ...

When you have psoriatic arthritis, following the treatment plan as prescribed is crucial for slowing the progression of the disease and easing symptoms. Adding complementary therapies to the overall ...

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 ...

There are some benefits and potentially serious risks when people with heart failure use complementary and alternative medicines (CAM), to manage symptoms, so involving the health care team is ...