| Journal Of Orthomolecular Medicine |
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The ''Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine'' provides a source for publication of early and current studies in Nutritional medicine. Physicians and scientists interested in the Orthomolecular approach to medicine have published in the journal. There is controversy surrounding publication in the journal, which apparently does not have the support of the American Psychiatric Association . HISTORY In 1967, physicians interested in Megavitamin Therapy started to generate their own medical journals. Dr Abram Hoffer had previously published about 150 articles and books but found it increasingly difficult to publish reports on Nutrition and medicine. Hoffer claims that the Orthomolecular Medicine content was not acceptable to conventional medical journals. The ''Journal of Schizophrenia'' followed the formation of the Canadian Schizophrenia Foundation, and the American Schizophrenia Association in the USA. Hoffer and Osmond were called before the Committee of Ethics of the American Psychiatric Association to answer why they were publicizing a treatment, called xenobiotic psychiatry by Dr. Bernard Rimland, which was considered unacceptable to standard psychiatric practice. Hoffer claims that one of the assistant editors of the American Psychiatric Association's '' American Journal Of Psychiatry '' announced that he would never allow any article from the orthomolecular medicine group to appear in his journal. Though repeated applications have been made, the ''Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine'' has not been indexed by MEDLINE (a database for biomedical literature). However, the authors of papers published in JOM have their papers in other journals automatically indexed. These outcomes have been interpreted by which those associated with JOM as confirmation of bias against orthomolecular medicine. EXTERNAL LINKS
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