Alternative Medicine

HER BODY

(referred by Mario Maranhão)

Barbara Kantrowitz and

Pat Wingert

The Truth About Alternative Medicine

A new survey finds that many U.S. women use some form of alternative medicine. But what really works, and what doesn't?

Published Dec 10, 2008

From the magazine issue dated Dec 10, 2008

Is natural better? Apparently, a lot of women think so. A survey released today by the National Institutes of Health found that 42.8 percent of American women use some form of complementary or alternative medicine, compared to 33.5 percent of men. That's similar to the gender difference in use of conventional medicine, says Richard Nahin, of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine./.../