New Study: 38% of American Adults Use Alternative Medicine
by Rob Stein, Washington Post
More than one-third of adults and nearly 12 percent of children in the United States use alternatives to “traditional” medicine, according to a large federal survey released [this week] that documents how entrenched acupuncture, herbal remedies and other once-exotic therapies have become.The 2007 survey of more than 32,000 Americans, which for the first time included children, found that use of yoga, “probiotics,” fish oil and other “complementary and alternative” therapies held steady among adults since the last national survey five years earlier, and that such treatments have become part of health care for many youngsters.
“It's clear that millions of Americans every year are turning to complementary and alternative medicine,” said Richard L. Nahin of the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, which released the survey. “The use of complementary and alternative medicine seems to have stabilized in the United States.”
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