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The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
NCCAM Clearinghouse
P.O. Box 7923, Gaithersburg, MD 20898
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2. Ibid.

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4. Eisenberg et al, JAMA, 1998

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10. Ibid.

11. International Chiropractors Association. Available from http://www.chiropractic.org. Accessed 22 June 2003.

12. US Food and Drug Administration, "Dietary supplements," Available from http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~lrd/advice.html#dietary. Accessed 24 June 2003.

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15. Ibid.