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Saturday, 23 April 2016

Interactions between alternative and conventional medicines might be more frequent than previously thought | Edzard Ernst

Many cancer patients use some form of alternative therapy. Most of them combine it with conventional oncological treatments which begs the important question whether the two can interact.

The aim of this new investigation was firstly to assess prevalence of interactions between alternative medicines (AMs) and drugs for comorbidities from a large survey on melanoma patients and secondly […]

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