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White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy

Description: A growing number of Americans are using alternative approaches to health promotion and medical treatment. People are looking to health care providers to treat the whole person, not only illness. Because of public interest in and use of unconventional health care, the President established the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy. Executive Order 13147 authorizing the Commission was issued on March 7, 2000.
Date: March 1, 2002
Creator: White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Herb Users' Nondisclosure of Complementary-Alternative Medicine Use to Health Care Providers

Description: Various forms of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) are increasingly being used in the United States and globally over time. Among CAM, natural products, including herbal medicines, are the most used type. However, the increase in the use of CAM has gone on with minimal or without a corresponding increase in the rate of disclosure of use to the health care providers. The theories of care-seeking behavior and the behavioral model of health services use guided most of the study. Data fr… more
Date: May 2022
Creator: Obiora, Justice Echezona
Partner: UNT Libraries
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[News Clip: Naturopath]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the arrest of naturopaths in 27 Texas counties, including 14 in Dallas, under suspicion of practicing medicine without a license and possible violation of narcotics laws.
Date: December 2, 1957
Duration: 7 minutes 01 second
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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