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CAM Practitioner: Where alternative meets mainstream. There are nearly 4 million articles in PubMed that respond to the search medical. But when you narrow it to complementary medicine the number of hits drops to just over 200,000. But even 200,000 are a lot of articles to sift through. CAM Practitioner is a new site to help target the most recent and most heavily researched topics within PubMed. CAM Practitioner is a valuable resource you can use to access leading research to guide your practice.
According to the National Institute of Health, more than 30 percent of adults and about 12 percent of children use health care approaches developed outside of mainstream Western, or conventional, medicine. A recent survey found that the use of dietary supplements is the most popular complementary health approach. The most frequently cited reasons for CAM use are general wellness, and pain management.
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