Alternative Medicine Yearbook 2009

Joav Merrick, MD, MMedSci, DMSc, (Medical Director, Health Services, Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem, Israel; Division of Adolescent Medicine, KY Childrens Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Lexington, Kentucky, US; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Jerusalem, Israel; Division of Pediatrics, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Centers, Mt Scopus Campus, Jerusalem, Israel; School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, US)

Introduction; Functional brain model: A nested hierarchical & parallel organization during development & evolution; Bryophytes: Potential medicinal natural products; Zootherapy as an alternative therapeutic in South America; Rationality & irrationality in Ryke Geerd Hamer's system for treatment of metastatic cancer revisited; The therapeutic value of antipsychotic drugs: A critical analysis of Cochrane meta-analyses of the therapeutic value of anti-psychotic drugs used in Denmark; The right of the patient to refuse medical care; Improving homeopathic practice using Bayes' theorem & likelihood ratio; Clinical holistic medicine: A case of induced spontaneous remission in a patient with non-Hodgkin B-Lymphoma; QOL10 for clinical quality-assurance & research in treatment-efficacy: Ten key questions for measuring the global quality of life, self-rated physical & mental health, & self-rated social-, sexual- & working ability; Spirituality, physics, psychology & medicine: Towards a new paradigm for healthcare in the 21st century; The open source protocol of clinical holistic medicine; Nutraceuticals & nutraceutical supplementation criteria in cancer prevention: A literature survey in years 2002-2009; Psychodynamic psychotherapy, therapeutic touch & cancer. A review of the method of intervention & study of 75 cases.