TO PARTICIPATE First: Download and read the Participant Information Sheet. (PDF) Second: Fill out this online survey Project Overview Parkinson's Disease is often said to be an incurable, progressive, and degenerative disease.  It is our...
This study is a survey of practicing Naturopathic Doctors (NDs) and ND students investigating health promotion and prevention both personally and professionally. Participants complete an...
Background: There is a pressing need for improved end-of-life care. Use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) may improve the quality of care but few controlled trials have evaluated CAM at the end of life. Objectives: To determine the...
Background: Because many people with chronic medical conditions use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), understanding their psychosocial characteristics may be useful for identifying effective interventions. The health locus of control (...
Objectives Use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) by the U.S. population increased significantly in the past 2 decades. To maximize a patient's recovery from a neurosurgical procedure, it is critical that neurosurgeons be aware of the...
This program will train eight post-doctoral fellows, each up to a period of three years, plus 30 pre-doctoral fellows in CAM research. Eighteen Bastyr and other local university faculty members are training post- and pre-doctoral fellows.
This four-year grant is funded by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) at the NIH. In collaboration with colleagues at the University of Washington, Dr. Guiltinan directs the development and revision of curriculum...
This project was designed to bring together naturopathic physicians and conventional research scientists to establish the Naturopathic Medical Research Agenda workgroup. It highlights the use of a prioritization criteria to determine the specific...
The objective is to improve the quality of patient dying and death by the use of integrative medicine using mind, body, and energy interventions to complement allopathic comfort care for persons with advanced cancer and AIDS. The effects of the...