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- Complementary and Alternative Healthcare/Medicine
- Government Regulations and Standards
- Industry Organisations, Magazines and Journals
- Traditional Medicine
- Miscellaneous
Complementary and Alternative Healthcare/Medicine
Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine
ACNEM (Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine) is a post-graduate medical college. Full Membership is open to all registered medical doctors. Associate membership is available to registered health providers with tertiary degrees, such as pharmacists, chiropractors, psychologists and registered nurses.
Free site that publishes original research articles in complementary and alternative healthcare/medicine. Emphasis on biochemical aspects of interventions, elucidation of mechanisms etc.
A comprehensive database of information useful to practitioners of nutritional medicine. Fully referenced and cross-referenced. Includes information on nutrition, natural health, foods, herbs and orthomolecular therapies. Reviewed by experts and based on the latest published literature. Includes abstracts, linked to the other information.
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Government Regulations and Standards
Therapeutic Goods Administration
The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) is a unit of the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing. The TGA carries out a range of assessment and monitoring activities to ensure therapeutic goods available in Australia are of an acceptable standard with the aim of ensuring that the Australian community has access, within a reasonable time, to therapeutic advances.
Therapeutic Goods Advertising Code Council
In Australia the TGACC regulates all advertisements and generic information provided about Therapeutic Goods directed to the public. Advertisements must comply with provisions of the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 and Therapeutic Goods Regulations 1990 and the Therapeutic Goods Advertising Code (TGAC).
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Industry Organisations, Magazines and Journals
Australian Traditional Medicine Society
The Australian Traditional-Medicine Society (ATMS) is Australia's largest professional association of complementary medicine practitioners, representing about 65% of the total complementary medicine profession.
Complementary Healthcare Council of Australia
The Complementary Healthcare Council supports our membership to provide the community with access to high quality complementary healthcare products. The Council provides industry with a powerful voice in all government and regulatory forums and is broadly recognised, both locally and internationally, as the voice for complementary healthcare product companies in Australia.
The NHCA Inc. is a national non-profit, a-political and non-sectarian alliance, designed to represent the entire broad spectrum of Natural Healthcare in Australia.
The NHCA is not designed to replace existing practitioner associations, but rather to act as a national umbrella organization for effective lobbying to the Government.
The Journal of Complementary Medicine
The Journal of Complementary Medicine is Australia’s only independent, peer-reviewed publication dedicated to bring evidence-based complementary medicine to the mainstream primary healthcare provider.
nPod - Naturopathic Product Online Database
nPod lists Australian Practitioner Only products for qualified health professionals. Detailed product information (including current prices) can be viewed by A-Z listings or Specific Medical Categories listings. Search functions, links to Health and Distribution Company websites, current seminar information, practitioner resources and CPE points are all available on this one stop site.
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Traditional Medicine
Comprehensive site offering reliable health information.
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Miscellaneous
Food Detective™ is a quick and reliable food intolerance test that is available in Australia through health care practitioners. The Food Detective™ tests 59 foods in less than 40 minutes and involves taking a small blood sample from your fingertip and used to detect the presence of food antibodies. There is no need to send off a sample of blood and wait weeks to receive results from a testing laboratory.
'Food Matters' is a hard hitting, fast paced look at our current state of health. Despite the billions of dollars of funding and research into new so-called cures we continue to suffer from a raft of chronic ills and every day maladies. Patching up an over-toxic and over-indulgent population with a host of toxic therapies and nutrient sparse foods is definitely not helping the situation.
The Geofeat initiative is a global undertaking to provide individuals with the opportunity to source products, share resources and participate in projects that are green, eco-friendly and organic by connecting with other like-minded businesses and individuals from around the world.
Excellent medical news website with access to peer reviewed papers, with updates and live webcasts on current medical/healthcare issues world wide.
U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
Australian site full of useful information and dietary tips to ensure healthy eating habits. The Food Coach services can help you get motivated, and develop the skills and tools you need to be fit and healthy.
Established in 1948, the World Health Organization is the United Nations specialized agency for health.
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