Silhouette of a man meditating in lotus pose placed on vectorized abstract watercolor background. Being diagnosed with a chronic illness can be a distressing and disorienting experience. Surveys of ...

"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 ...

Reflexology therapy may improve pain, fatigue, and quality of life in people with MS. Massage therapy may prevent or relieve pain, spasticity, circulation issues, and pressure sores; it may also be ...

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 ...

What is complementary and alternative medicine? Complementary and alternative medicine includes a wide range of healing practices that some people use to treat lupus or other conditions. Some examples ...

For people battling prostate cancer, the fight can feel like a contest between the disease and the doctors. Their body is the battlefield, but they may nonetheless feel marginalized—more bystander ...

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 ...

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 ...

Leigh Weingus is a New York-based freelance writer and former senior editor at HuffPost, Elite Daily and Mindbodygreen. Her work has been featured in Well+Good, Glamour, Parade, Bustle, NBC News and ...

Therapy-based complementary -- sometimes called integrative -- medicine encompasses a wide range of practices and approaches to support you physically, emotionally, and mentally, used alongside ...

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 ...