News & Links

JOURNALS

	Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine
	Alternative Medicine Review
	Oxford Journals

LINKS

Alternative Medicine

	Alternative & Complementary Medicine Center
	Botany Online - The Internet Hypertextbook Contents
	National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), National Institutes of Health (NIH)
	QuackWatch Home Page
	UW Medicinal Herb Garden Home Page
	Acupuncture: Consensus Statement Overview, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Cross-Cultural Health & Health Disparities

	The Bureau of Primary Health Care (disparities)
	DiversityRx Committed to improving the quality of health care for minority, immigrant, and ethnically diverse communities.
	Ethnomed Homepage
	Folk Medicine in Hispanics in the Southwestern United States
	Healthy People 2010
	The Initiative to Eliminate Racial & Ethnic Disparities in Health
	National Center for Cultural Competence

OPPORTUNITIES

	Volunteer Opportunities for Premed and Prehealth Students. An excellent list prepared by Jodi Olson, Program Administrator, Post-Baccalaureate Premedical Program, Scripps College.
	Study project on Tai Chi and its effect on balance in senior citizens, Dr. John Milton, Joint Science.

LOCAL RESOURCES

	A tongava Native Herb Garden self-guide tour on Pitzer's compus 23 majors plants selected by Mark Acuna, Tongva Ethnobotonist
	Catalog of Tongava Native Medecinal plants (created by Dr. Mario Maldonado and Dr. Lise Bouchard
	Medicine Garden in Scott courtyard area (under construction) including Chinese, Mexican American and Native American Herbs.

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