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"With 62 percent of the American public using CAM, from dietary
supplements to chiropractic, there is
not only a great need to inform
conventional and CAM health care professionals, but also to provide the
public with information they can use to make decisions about their health
care options,"
said Stephen E. Straus, M.D., NCCAM Director. National Center
for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Monday, 2005
"In
a [Mayo Clinic] study of 50 patients, six acupuncture treatments given
over two to three weeks significantly improved their symptoms of pain and
fatigue." Time, 2005
"Americans make more visits to nonconventional healers (some 600 million a
year) than we do to M.D.s and spend more money out-of-pocket to do so
about $30 billion a year by recent estimates." Newsweek, 12/2002
"A
recent study performed by the American Massage Therapy Association
revealed that more than one-quarter (28 percent) of consumers received a
massage from a massage therapist in the past five years, up from just 17
percent in 1997. Eighteen percent said they had a massage in the past 12
months. Thats 10 percentage points higher than was reported in
1997." American Massage Therapy Association, 8/2002
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