Alternative Medicine No Longer Should Get "Free Ride," NEJM Declares
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
The increased interest in alternative and complementary medicines has resulted in a "reversion to irrational approaches to medical practice, even while scientific medicine is making some of its most dramatic advances," New England Journal of Medicine chief editors Marcia Angell, MD, and Jerome Kassirer, MD, charge in a Sept. 17 NEJM editorial.
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