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Department of Public Health Sciences
For more than 50 years, the Department of Public Health Sciences has provided graduate education and engaged in research aimed at improving health and health care for citizens. The focus of research and graduate programs is on health policy and management, health technology assessment, epidemiology and biostatistics, environmental health and global health. Collectively, faculty members represent many disciplines in the natural, biomedical, clinical, social, economic and behavioral sciences.
Items in this Collection
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- 1ACUPUNCTURE
- 1ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
- 1COMPLEMENTARY
- 1Clinical Trials as Topic
- 1Conflict of Interest--economics
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Herbal Remedy Clinical Trials in the Media: a Comparison with the Coverage of Conventional Pharmaceuticals
Download2014-10-24
Boon, Heather, Caulfield, Timothy, Bubela, Tania
Background This study systematically compares newspaper coverage of clinical trials for herbal remedies, a popular type of complementary and alternative medicine, with clinical trials for pharmaceuticals using a comparative content analysis. This is a timely inquiry given the recognized...
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2014-11-14
Koper, Megan, Boon, Heather, Bubela, Tania, Caulfield, Timothy
Due to the growing industry support of biomedical research, studies are increasingly scrutinized because of conflicts of interest of investigators and concerns about inaccurate reporting of study results by the popular media. The Association of American Medical Colleges has defined conflict of...
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2014-11-12
Bubela, Tania, Caulfield, Timothy, Koper, Megan, Boon, Heather
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) encompasses a wide variety of treatments, such as herbal remedies, not currently thought to be part of mainstream medicine. Our study focuses on herbal remedies, as their use is significant and increasing. We ask whether media coverage of conflicts of...
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2006
Caulfield, Timothy, Bubela, Tania, Boon, Heather
Complementary and Alternative Medicines [CAM] are interventions that are not widely taught in medical schools and are not part of the usual arsenal of treatments and medications recommended and prescribed by physicians and available in hospitals. CAM is big business ($30 billion in the US) with...