Great online links: Complementary and alternative medicine

Getting enough information on alternative medicines is essential before treating a patient with the medicine. To give people better information on these medicines, three reliable Web sites that are believed to improve one's knowledge about some of the common and not-so-common products that have been encountered in the clinical setting are presented. These include the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at http://nccam.nih.gov, the International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements data base under Health Information at http://ods.od.nih.gov, and the Alternative Medicine Foundation's HerbMed at http://www.herbmed.org.