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Brian Vastag

JAMA. 2001;285:1435.

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Recognizing the increasing demand for access to quality research on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) have launched a database of 220 000 references. CAM on PubMed, the new collection, functions as a subset of the larger citations database, affording Internet access to abstracts of the CAM articles, which are culled from 4500 journals and date back to 1966.

Broadly defined as health care practices that fall outside the bounds of conventional medicine, CAM comprises a huge array of practices, including acupuncture, herbal remedies, chiropractic, hypnosis, and many others. A 1997 study reported that 42% of Americans had tried some sort of CAM (JAMA. 1998;280:1569-1575).

Although physicians and others complain that little research has been done on CAM, rigorous studies of certain practices are appearing more frequently in medical journals, in large . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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