136th APHA Annual Meeting (October 25-29, 2008): Alternative and Complementary Health Practices for Chronic Diseases

Monday, October 27, 2008: 2:30 PM

Oral

1 2 3

Session Objectives: 1 2 3

Moderator:

2:30 PM

Complementary/ alternative medicine (CAM) use by survivors of childhood cancer
Deborah Ndao, MPH, Elena Ladas, MS, RD, Bin Cheng, PhD and Kara Kelly, MD

2:50 PM

Massage Therapy for Patients with Cancer: Program Development, Analysis, and Public Health Implications
Anne M. Doherty-Gilman, MPH, Bambi Mathay, LMT, Elizabeth Dean-Clower, MD, MPH, Theresa Ochenkoski, LMT and David S. Rosenthal, MD

3:10 PM

3:30 PM

Effects of acupuncture on oral markers of emotional distress in HIV-infected African Americans
Jason R. Jaggers, MS, G. William Lyerly, MS, John M. Tucker, Don J. Thompson, LAc, Brandy M. Duncan, MS and Gregory A. Hand, PhD

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

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