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2. Alternative medicine - Wikipedia

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   t. e. Alternative medicine is any practice that aims to achieve the healing effects of medicine despite lacking biological plausibility, testability, repeatability or evidence of effectiveness. Unlike modern medicine, which employs the scientific method to test plausible therapies by way of responsible and ethical clinical trials, producing ...

3. Chiropractic - Wikipedia

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   Chiropractic (/ ˌkaɪroʊˈpræktɪk /) is a form of alternative medicine [ 1 ] concerned with the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mechanical disorders of the musculoskeletal system, especially of the spine. [ 2 ] It is based on several pseudoscientific ideas. [ 3 ]

4. Community health centers in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The community health center (CHC) in the United States is the dominant model for providing integrated primary care and public health services for the low-income and uninsured, and represents one use of federal grant funding as part of the country's health care safety net. The health care safety net can be defined as a group of health centers ...

5. National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health

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   t. e. The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) is a United States government agency which explores complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). It was initially created in 1991 as the Office of Alternative Medicine (OAM), and renamed the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) before ...

6. List of forms of alternative medicine - Wikipedia

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   This page was last edited on 11 September 2024, at 10:01 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0; additional terms may apply.

7. Naturopathy - Wikipedia

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   Naturopathy, or naturopathic medicine, is a form of alternative medicine. [1] A wide array of practices branded as "natural", "non-invasive", or promoting "self-healing" are employed by its practitioners, who are known as naturopaths. Difficult to generalize, these treatments range from the pseudoscientific and thoroughly discredited, like ...

8. Telehealth - Wikipedia

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   Telehealth is the distribution of health-related services and information via electronic information and telecommunication technologies. [1] It allows long-distance patient and clinician contact, care, advice, reminders, education, intervention, monitoring, and remote admissions. [2][3] Telemedicine is sometimes used as a synonym, or is used in ...

9. Hospice care in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Respite care may be necessary, for instance, if a family member who is providing home hospice care is briefly unable to perform his or her duties and an alternative care provider becomes necessary.) [50] As of 2008, Medicare was responsible for around 80% of hospice payments, reimbursing providers differently from county to county with a higher ...