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CAMbrella Newsletter Summer 2010
Von Claus Fritzsche | 18.Juli 2010
Dear Readers,
This is the second newsletter of the CAMbrella project, the pan-European research network for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM). CAMbrella is a research project, and therefore you would not necessarily expect to receive a newsletter.
But CAMbrella’s task is to collect as much information as possible on the views and attitudes of the different and manifold groups of people in Europe towards CAM: Citizens, patients, providers, researchers, politicians and so on…
The newsletter therefore is one step in trying to make contact with the European public at large, and we welcome any comments and opinions, questions and demands you would like to raise in connection with CAM in Europe. Just turn to the editor, Jesper Odde Madsen, or the editor in chief, Bettina Reiter.
This edition contains an interview with Jan Paehler, the EU scientific officer responsible for the CAMbrella project on his views about CAM as a research field and the project in particular; Work Package 1 is being presented – it´s all about terminology! We inform you about the CAM situation in Sweden and a report on the big CAM congress in Tromsoe in May 2010 gives also a report on a CAMbrella meeting there. And the International Federation of Anthroposophic Medical Associations – the IVAA – is being portraied as one of the important CAM stakeholders in Europe. CAMbrella evolved out of an initiative that already started to bring european researchers together in 2004 - you can get an impression about how it all happened in the interview with Corian Güthlin, who is one of the group that runs now the European Chapter of ISCMR (Int. Society for CAM research).
We, the editors, wish you a happy summertime,
thank you for your interest in CAMbrella,
Bettina Reiter & Jesper Madsen
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CAMbrella can build bridges
“The wall between CAM and conventional medicine is more political than scientific. The separation is arbitrary, and CAM research is of equal quality and rigor to that of other medical fields,” EU Scientific Officer Dr Jan Paehler said.
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Northern networking
400 researchers from 35 countries shared experience, thoughts and the midnight sun during the 5th International Congress on Complementary Medicine Research in Tromsø, Norway. The Scientific Steering Committee of CAMbrella held its first meeting at the conference.
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IVAA – a CAM stakeholder:
Anthroposophic medicinal products are prescribed by more than 30,000 physicians in 21 of the 27 EU member states as well as in Norway and Switzerland. The International Federation of Anthroposophic Medical Associations (IVAA) is an umbrella organization which represents and coordinates 31 national anthroposophic doctors’ associations.
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Terminology and definition of CAM methods – CAMbrella Work Package 1
This CAMbrella work package is focusing on the development of a Europe-wide acceptable and pragmatic definition of CAM, and it will terminate its work in the summer of 2011.
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Bringing researchers together
The European Chapter of ISCMR (International Society for Complementary Medicine Research) and CAMbrella are inspired by the same idea: to provide a meeting point for European CAM researchers. It all started when a group of dedicated researchers got together in the very middle of Europe – in Vienna, in 2004.
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CAM in Sweden
Only a few CAM practitioners are medical doctors, and the most used CAM treatment is massage. The country has a policy–practice paradox: health personnel are recommending CAM methods without an evidence base although this is not allowed according to national health legislation.
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Imprint
CAMbrella
Klinikum rechts der Isar
Technische Universität München
Ismaninger Strasse 22
81675 München
Germany
Wolfgang Weidenhammer, PhD
Centre for Complementary Medicine Research
wolfgang.weidenhammer@lrz.tum.de
Editor in chief: Bettina Reiter
reiter@gamed.or.at
Editor: Jesper Odde Madsen
jm@jespermadsen.dk
CAMbrella is a pan-European research network for complementary and alternative medicine, funded by the European Commission Seventh Framework Programme FP7
www.cambrella.eu
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Copyright: Klinikum rechts der Isar, TU München (2010)
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Related Links:
CAMbrella Newsletter Spring 2010
Bettina Reiter: CAM in Europe - Ideas and Notions (Forschende Komplementärmedizin, Vol. 17, No. 3, 2010) - PDF Article, Free Access
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