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Core Concepts in Health, 9/e
Paul M. Insel, Stanford University School of Medicine
Walton T. Roth, Stanford University School of Medicine

Health Care: Conventional and Complementary Medicine

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Table 21-1 (See p. 602 in your text.)

Use of Complementary and Alternative Therapies in the United States

Statistics on the use of CAM in the United States are available in the following research studies:

http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v280n18/abs/joc80870.html Eisenberg, D. M., et al. 1998. Trends in alternative medicine use in the United States, 1990-1997. Results of a follow-up national survey. Journal of the American Medical Association 280(18): 1569-1575.

http://www.nejm.org/content/1993/0328/0004/0246.asp Eisenberg, D. M., et al. 1993. Unconventional medicine in the United States--Prevalence, costs, and patterns of use. New England Journal of Medicine 328(4): 246-252.

For updates and additional information, visit the Web site of the http://nccam.nih.gov National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) or search for recent research articles at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez PubMed.