title: A brief report: Yale Research Symposium on Complementary and Integrative Medicine.
abstract: The 2010 Yale Research Symposium on Complementary and Integrative Medicine highlighted original research in related areas by Yale faculty and provided a forum to discuss and debate issues of evidence and plausibility. In this brief report, we describe selected presentations on such diverse foci as nutritional influences on cancer, acupuncture for low back pain, protein intake's effects on bone consumption, Chinese herb-derived adjuvant chemotherapy, and the relationship between anger and cardiac arrhythmia. This symposium demonstrated that rigorous research methods are being used to study unconventional therapies and that an integrative medicine approach requires a solid scientific foundation.
authors.affiliation: Prevention Research Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06418, USA. ather.ali@yale.edu
authors.forename: Ather
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ali
authors.forename: Lawrence A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Vitulano
mesh_terms: D026881:Acupuncture; D000529:Complementary Therapies / Q000379:methods*; D003226:Congresses as Topic; D006801:Humans; D055048:Integrative Medicine / Q000379:methods*; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000628:therapy