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Peer-reviewed Publications


Addiction

  1. Effectiveness of smoking cessation therapies: a systematic review & meta-analysis.
  2. Efficacy of acupuncture for cocaine dependence: a systematic review & meta-analysis.

Cancer

  1. A comparative review of thermography as a breast cancer screening technique.
  2. An in vivo analysis of the herbal compound Essiac.
  3. Barriers to participation in clinical trials of cancer: a meta-analysis and systematic review of patient-reported factors.
  4. Black cohosh and breast cancer: a systematic review
  5. Green tea and lung cancer: a systematic review
  6. In vitro analysis of the herbal compound Essiac.
  7. Integrative practices of Canadian oncology health professionals.
  8. Melatonin as adjuvant cancer care with and without chemotherapy: meta-analysis
  9. Melatonin in the treatment of cancer: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials and meta-analysis.
  10. Metronomic dosing of chemotherapy: applications in pediatric oncology.
  11. Patient decision-making about complementary and alternative medicine in cancer.
  12. Selenium and lung cancer: a systematic review and meta analysis
  13. The effects of green tea consumption on incidence of breast cancer and recurrence of breast cancer: a systematic review.
  14. Vitamin A and retinoid derivatives for lung cancer: a systematic review and meta analysis

Cancer Drug Interactions

  1. Interactions of natural health products with biomedical cancer treatments.
  2. Strategy for controlling potential interactions between natural health products and chemotherapy

Cardiovascular/Circulatory

  1. Acupuncture in Poststroke Rehabilitation - A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Trials
  2. EDTA chelation therapy for cardiovascular disease: a systematic review.

Cost Effectiveness

  1. Cost Effectiveness of Natural Health Products: A Systematic Review of Randomized Clinical Trials.
  2. Cost-effectiveness of naturopathic care for chronic low back pain.

Diabetes

  1. From type 2 diabetes to antioxidant activity: a systematic review of the safety and efficacy of common and cassia cinnamon bark.
  2. Treating type 2 diabetes: A cross-sectional audit of naturopathic standards of care using the Naturopathic Patient Database

Environmental Medicine

  1. Objective Assessment of an Ionic Footbath (IonCleanse): Testing Its Ability to Remove Potentially Toxic Elements from the Body

HIV/AIDS

  1. Acupuncture for treatment of HIV associated acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (Guillain-Barré syndrome)
  2. African herbal medicines in the treatment of HIV: Hypoxis and Sutherlandia. An overview of evidence and pharmacology.
  3. Effect of selenium supplementation on CD4 T-cell recovery, viral suppression, morbidity and quality of life of HIV-infected patients in Rwanda: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
  4. Knowledge of safety and herb-drug interations amongst HIV+ individuals: a focus group study.
  5. Vitamin supplementation for prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and pre-term delivery: a systematic review.

Mental Health

  1. Links between ADHD and Environmental Pollutants: Implications for Preventative Naturopathic Clinical Practice
  2. Naturopathic Care for Anxiety: A Randomized Controlled Trial
  3. Orthomolecular and Botanical Treatments to Help Alleviate the Side Effects of Atypical Antipsychotic Drugs.
  4. Orthomolecular Treatment of Anxiety Disorders
  5. Pellagra may be a rare secondary complication of anorexia nervosa: a systematic review of the literature.
  6. Randomized controlled trials in long-term care residents with dementia: a systematic review.
  7. Supplemental niacinamide mitigates anxiety symptoms: three case reports.
  8. The Orthomolecular Treatment of Schizophrenia: A Primer for Clinicians.
  9. Understanding the serum vitamin B12 level and its implications for treating neuropsychiatric conditions: an orthomolecular perspective

Musculoskeletal

  1. Naturopathic care for chronic low back pain: a randomized trial.
  2. Naturopathic treatment of rotator cuff tendinitis among Canadian postal workers: A randomized controlled trial

Orthomolecular Medicine/Natural Health Products

  1. Adaptogenic potential of a polyherbal natural health product: report on a longitudinal clinical trial.
  2. Clinical Experiences with a Vitamin B3 Dependent Family.
  3. Clinically based evidence of drug-herb interactions: a systematic review
  4. Disclosure of natural product use to primary care physicians: a cross-sectional survey of naturopathic clinic attendees.
  5. Double agent niacin-its beneficial effect upon the lipid profile, but its adverse effect upon plasma homocysteine: a case report
  6. Meta-analysis of flavonoids for the treatment of haemorrhoids.
  7. Milk thistle and indinavir: a randomized controlled pharmacokinetics study and meta-analysis.
  8. Natural health product-drug interactions: a systematic review of clinical trials.
  9. The safety of over-the-counter niacin. A randomized placebo-controlled trial.
  10. The treatment of migraines and tension-type headaches with intravenous and oral niacin (nicotinic acid): literature review.
  11. Understanding the Serum Vitamin B12 Level and its Implications for Treating Neuropsychiatric Conditions: An Orthomolecular Perspective
  12. Vitamin B12 (cobalamin) deficiency in elderly patients.
  13. Vitamin B3 for Depression: Case Report and Review of the Literature

Pediatrics

  1. Characteristics of Pediatric and Adolescent Patients Attending a Naturopathic College Clinic in Canada.
  2. Echinacea purpurea (L.) in children: safety, tolerability, compliance, clin. effectiveness in upper respiratory tract infections

Pregnancy and Lactation

  1. Safety and efficacy of black cohosh (Cimicifuga racemosa) during pregnancy and lactation.
  2. Safety and efficacy of blue cohosh (Caulophyllum thalictroides) during pregnancy and lactation.
  3. Safety and efficacy of chastetree (Vitex agnus-castus) during pregnancy and lactation.
  4. Safety and efficacy of cranberry (vaccinium macrocarpon) during pregnancy and lactation.
  5. Safety and efficacy of echinacea (Echinacea angustafolia, e. purpurea and e. pallida) during pregnancy and lactation.
  6. Safety and efficacy of ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba) during pregnancy and lactation.
  7. Safety and efficacy of panax ginseng during pregnancy and lactation.
  8. Safety and efficacy of St. John's wort (hypericum) during pregnancy and lactation.

Public Health

  1. Naturopathic medicine and aboriginal health: an exploratory study at Anishnawbe Health Toronto

Pulmonary/Respiratory

  1. The Treatment of Pulmonary Diseases and Respiratory-Related Conditions with Inhaled (Nebulized or Aerosolized) Glutathione.

Research Methodology

  1. Assessing the utility of an electronic research database to capture whole systems practice at two naturopathic outpatient teaching clinics
  2. Epidemiology and reporting of randomized trials employing re-randomization of patient groups
  3. Guidelines to case report writing for naturopathic doctors
  4. Problems with use of composite end points in cardiovascular trials: a systematic review.
  5. Systematically reviewing qualitative studies complements survey design: exploratory study of barriers to paediatric immunization
  6. The quality of randomized trial reporting in leading medical journals since the revised CONSORT statement.
  7. Working with Toronto neighbourhoods toward developing indicators of community capacity.

Teaching Evidence Based Integrative Medicine

  1. A learning structure for clinical decision changes.
  2. A conceptual approach to causation-part 2.
  3. Appraising the evidence for papers on therapy.
  4. Asking the questions and identifying the information.
  5. Interpreting the results of a study on therapy and applying them to a patient.
  6. Introducing evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine: answering the challenge.

Vaccination

  1. Association of autistic spectrum disorder and the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine: a systematic review.
  2. Changing attitudes towards polio vaccination:

Wellness/Preventative Medicine

  1. Oral Health Care in Canada – A View from the Trenches.

Women's Health

  1. Pattern of Physical Injury Associated with Intimate Partner Violence in Women Presenting to the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis