The Gilchrist Birthing Unit and complementary medicine service have moved to the centre from the site's former Gilchrist Building.
But this is one of the fundamental disconnects between Western medicine and what people often refer to as complementary medicine.
Edzard Ernst, Professor of Complementary Medicine at Exeter University, says it is well known that alternative therapies can have side effects, especially in vulnerable groups like children.
But hazing is a complementary medicine, not an alternative one.
Lord Henley told peers that the government was "neutral" on the issue of alternative and complementary medicine and left "all decisions on commissioning and funding it to the NHS".
Professor Edzard Ernst, professor of complementary medicine at Peninsula Medical School in Exeter and a vocal critic of homeopathy, said the huge drop in prescribing reflected a shift in attitude within the medical profession.
He called on the government to "do nothing to discourage these courses, many of which are of a very high quality and give assurance to the millions of people who benefit in this country from alternative and complementary medicine".
"It's an interesting and rigorous study in the field of complementary medicine, and an important step forward in improving quality of care for the 70 percent of patients who undergo chemotherapy and experience nausea and vomiting, " says Dr. Douglas Blayney, president-elect at the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
The study, which appears in the Annals of Internal Medicine, was funded by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (part of the National Institutes of Health) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
In fact, 75 percent of cancer patients who used complementary and alternative medicine didn't tell their physicians, according to a 2005 survey.
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The herb can cause headaches or tiredness the morning after, according to the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
Ginkgo supplements were no better than a placebo for preventing dementia, according to the study, which was sponsored by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine and the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health.
Dr William Van't Hoff, a consultant paediatrician and a spokesman for the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, says this is an important, well constructed study that demonstrates "a high and unacceptable rate of adverse events" associated with the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).
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