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Functional medicine (FM) is a form of alternative medicine that encompasses a number of unproven and disproven methods and treatments. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It has been described as pseudoscience, [ 4 ] quackery , [ 5 ] and at its essence a rebranding of complementary and alternative medicine. [ 5 ]
Orthomolecular medicine is practiced by few medical practitioners. [ 51 ] [ 52 ] A survey released in May, 2004 by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine focused on who used alternative medicine , what was used, and why it was used in the United States by adults age 18 years and over during 2003.
As of 2011, approximately 26,000 practitioners had been given A4M certificates. [1] The field of anti-aging medicine is not recognized by established medical organizations, such as the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) and the American Medical Association (AMA). The academy's activities include lobbying and public relations.
Mark Adam Hyman (born November 22, 1959) [1] is an American physician and author. [2] [3] [4] He is the founder and medical director of The UltraWellness Center. [5]Hyman was a regular contributor to the Katie Couric Show until the show's cancellation in 2013. [6]
However, the CAM review used the more developed 2004 Cochrane database, while the conventional review used the initial 1998 Cochrane database. [130] Alternative therapies do not "complement" (improve the effect of, or mitigate the side effects of) functional medical treatment.
Family medicine [note 1] is a medical specialty within primary care that provides continuing and comprehensive health care for the individual and family across all ages, genders, diseases, and parts of the body.
Cleveland Clinic is an American nonprofit academic medical center based in Cleveland, Ohio. [2] Owned and operated by the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, an Ohio nonprofit corporation, Cleveland Clinic was founded in 1921 by a group of faculty and alumni from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
A 2010 systematic review stated that there is no good evidence to assume that neck manipulation is an effective treatment for any medical condition and suggested a precautionary principle in healthcare for chiropractic intervention even if a causality with vertebral artery dissection after neck manipulation were merely a remote possibility. [16]