July 25, 2001 – Sign of the times! To better understand and treat patients who increasingly resort to alternative medicine, the prestigious Harvard Medical School is creating an institute dedicated to non-traditional medicine.
The researchers of this new institute, called “integrated medicine”, have the task of evaluating the effectiveness of various therapies such as acupuncture, herbal medicine, massage therapy, and so on. and to study how their treatments interact with those of orthodox medicine. They should also measure the effectiveness of herbal remedies and find out more about their interaction with drugs.
According to a Harvard study, the alternative medicine market is very active in the United States: Americans have made 600 million visits to stakeholders of all kinds and spent $ 30 billion on treatments of all kinds.
The project, paired with a similar one at the University of California at San Francisco, was made possible by a donation of ten million dollars from Bernard Osher, a philanthropist in San Francisco, and two million dollars from Harvard. Medical School.
In the United States, there are already a few integrated medicine programs: at the University of Arizona (since 1994) and at the University of Pennsylvania. Some schools would also include naturopathy, Chinese medicine and chiropractic in their curriculum.
Claire Tanguay – PasseportSanté.net
According to the Richters HerbLetter of 05/31/2001
