Clinicians Need More CAM Therapy Information – NIH Survey
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Implementing complementary and alternative medicines more widely in health care requires disseminating research and training clinicians about CAM, a National Institutes of Health survey shows
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