About FACT

FACT is a quarterly review journal that aims to present the evidence on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in an analytical and impartial manner.

With increasing interest and growing research into CAM there are dozens of specific complementary medicine journals and thousands of general medical journals that present articles and research findings in this area. Knowing it is impossible to scan all these publications, Focus on Alternative and Complementary Therapies (FACT) systematically searches the world literature to uncover articles and key papers in CAM research. It provides an overview of the new research, saving time and making it possible to keep abreast of all the new research data related to CAM.

The most important factual papers found worldwide are summarised and then critically appraised in FACT. They are followed by an expert commentary written by a member of FACT's international editorial board and a reply from the author of the original paper. All FACT summaries and commentaries are evidence-based, reporting clinical trials, systematic reviews or meta-analyses, compiling, interpreting and disseminating the up-to-date evidence for or against complementary medicine.

Each issue includes:

• Summaries and commentaries on key CAM areas
• Two focus articles that review the evidence for and against CAM in a particular therapeutic area
• Short reports of recent publications that have not been subjected to a full summary and commentary
• Debate articles which present different or even opposing views to tease out the pros and contras in controversial areas
• Guest editorials
• Interviews of outstanding personalities in the field of CAM
• News items
• Book reviews and a list of new books
• Recent literature: a comprehensive compilation of recently published CAM literature
• Letters to the editor

FACT is edited by staff of the Complementary Medicine unit at the Peninsula Medical School in Exeter. The unit was established in 1993 following a substantial charitable endowment from The Maurice Laing Foundation.

FACT is published by the Pharmaceutical Press an imprint of RPS Publishing, the wholly-owned publishing organisation of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. It receives no industry funding.

Abstracting and indexing information:

FACT is included in the following abstracting and indexing services:

Acubriefs ● Allied and Complementary Medicine Database ● CAB Abstracts - including Abstracts of Hygiene and Communicable Diseases, and Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews A ● Cambridge Scientific Abstracts - including Neurosciences Abstracts ● CINAHL ● Elsevier Databases - including EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, EMCare, and Scopus ● MANTIS Database ● Zetoc.