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Please can we give up on complementary, alternative and 'integrative therapies' now?

  • Written by: Michael Vagg, Clinical Senior Lecturer at Deakin University School of Medicine & Pain Specialist, Deakin University

A purportedly serious publication in a serious forum that was published this week has given rise to a bunch ofbreathless CAM-related headlines in my news feed. CAM being Complementary and Alternative Therapies.

I presume that this is what the authors and their employer wanted, as the supposed good news story is in fact one of the most blatant...

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