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Complementary and alternative medicines are treatments that are not used in the practice of conventional medicine. Complementary medicines are used in combination with treatments administered by standard medical practice. Alternative medicines, on the other hand, are treatments used in place of accepted practice. The branch of medicine referred to as integrative care involves treatment plans that utilize both conventional medicine and less proven complementary methods.
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Complementary and alternative medicine approaches are backed by limited evidence to support efficacy and safety.
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The first commercially available recombinant protein therapeutic was Insulin, approved by the U.S. FDA in 1982 for the treatment of diabetes mellitus.
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Eflornithine is in clinical use as a cream for the treatment of facial hirsutism and for injection against sleeping sickness.
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Weber, G. (2015). Drugs with Diverse Modes of Action. In: Molecular Therapies of Cancer. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13278-5_9
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