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FY12 Spending Debate Comes to a Close

Congress completed, and the President signed into law, the FY12 appropriations bill. The $915 billion spending bill wraps up the remaining nine appropriations measures. The bill provides funding for programs at the Department of Health and Human Services, including the National
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Rep. Rush Holt’s (D-NJ) Editorial in Most Recent Science

Science 16 September 2011:
Vol. 333 no. 6049 p. 1549
DOI: 10.1126/science.1211494
EDITORIAL:

Dueling Visions for Science

Rush Holt
Rush Holt is the U.S. Representative for New Jersey's 12th Congressional District and has a doctoral degree in physics.

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A Fresh Look at Alternative Medicine - 4/23/08

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Dr. R. Barker Bausell
University of Maryland School of Nursing

Are the benefits of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) real or just a figment of hopeful imaginations? Every year, millions of people flock to complementary and alternative therapists offering a vast array of treatments ranging from acupuncture to biofeedback to urine injections. But does science validate CAM or could millions of people be wrong about the effects they have experienced through CAM treatments?

Dr. Bausell, a leading authority on the study of CAM treatments,seeks to answer the following question: "Is there any credible or plausible evidence to suggest that CAM therapies are anything more than placebos?"