IP: HARVARD BACKS HOLISTIC MEDICINE FOR A PIECE OF THE ACTION.: What's New for May 18, 2001

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>2. HARVARD BACKS HOLISTIC MEDICINE   FOR A PIECE OF THE ACTION.
>Acknowledging that patients are experimenting increasingly with
>alternative treatments, the Harvard Medical School is creating an
>institute for nontraditional medicine.  According to a recent
>Harvard study, Americans last year made an estimated 600 million
>office visits to practitioners of so-called "integrative"
>medicine, which combines mainstream and alternative treatments.
>More significantly, they dropped $30 billion on the treatments
>they received. Hmmm. Perhaps Harvard should also establish an
>institute for the study of astrology.



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