[MPWG] NEWS: 38% of Adults Use Alternative Medicine

[Olivia Kwong]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/10/AR2008121001601.html

38% of Adults Use Alternative Medicine
Study Prompts Critics to Warn of Therapies' Risks
By Rob Stein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, December 11, 2008; Page A02

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 today that documents how entrenched 
acupuncture, herbal remedies and other once-exotic therapies have become.

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