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"With 62 percent of the American public using CAM, from dietary supplements to chiropractic, there is not only a great need to inform conventional and CAM health care professionals, but also to provide the public with information they can use to make decisions about their health care options," said Stephen E. Straus, M.D., NCCAM Director.  National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Monday,   2005

"In a [Mayo Clinic] study of 50 patients, six acupuncture treatments given over two to three weeks significantly improved their symptoms of pain and fatigue."   Time, 2005

"Americans make more visits to nonconventional healers (some 600 million a year) than we do to M.D.s and spend more money out-of-pocket to do so about $30 billion a year by recent estimates."   Newsweek, 12/2002

"A recent study performed by the American Massage Therapy Association revealed that more than one-quarter (28 percent) of consumers received a massage from a massage therapist in the past five years, up from just 17 percent in 1997.   Eighteen percent said they had a massage in the past 12 months.  Thats 10 percentage points higher than was reported in 1997."   American Massage Therapy Association, 8/2002

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