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The terms alternative medicine, complementary medicine, integrative medicine, holistic medicine, natural medicine, unorthodox medicine, fringe medicine, unconventional medicine, and new age medicine are used interchangeably as having the same meaning and are almost synonymous in most contexts. [1] [2] [3] [4]
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Where alternative therapies have replaced conventional science-based medicine, even with the safest alternative medicines, failure to use or delay in using conventional science-based medicine has caused deaths. [188] [189] Many alternative medical treatments are not patentable, [208] which may lead to less research funding from the private ...
Experimental medicine is conventional medicine that is unproven, but which aspires to be proven using evidence-based standards and is actively being researched. Unproven medicine Any medicine for which no good evidence exists either way. "Unproven medicine" can be alternative, complementary, conventional, or traditional.
Alternative medical systems are defined by NCCAM as a group of diverse medical and health care systems, practices, and products that are not generally considered part of conventional medicine. Subcategories
The main discussion of these abbreviations in the context of drug prescriptions and other medical prescriptions is at List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions. Some of these abbreviations are best not used, as marked and explained here.
This is a list of types of medical therapy, including forms of traditional medicine and alternative medicine. For psychotherapies and other behavioral and psychological intervention methods, see list of psychotherapies .
Biomedicine (also referred to as Western medicine, mainstream medicine or conventional medicine) [1] is a branch of medical science that applies biological and physiological principles to clinical practice. Biomedicine stresses standardized, evidence-based treatment validated through biological research, with treatment administered via formally ...