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eCAM: Clinical Analyses and Increasing Visibility
Laboratory of Comparative Neuroimmunology, Department of Neurobiology and David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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When eCAM was first born in 2004 we recognized our role in the world of integrative medicine, which is to become the model publication devoted to evidence-based approaches, thus the name ‘evidence based’. Recognition was given to the fact that eCAM is a part of a larger compendium of information, technologies and ideas that increasingly overlap and intertwine in a tangled web of biological processes. There are sometimes interfacing and even colliding influences that include the forces of culture, habits and attitudes that can often snuff out, smother or mask the urgencies of viewing phenomena as biological or biomedical. Yet a crucial view prevails: