Most Americans Use Alternative Medicine -Report
Thu May 27, 2004 11:23 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nearly two-thirds of American adults use some form of complementary or alternative medicine ranging from prayer to herbs, a U.S. government survey showed on Thursday.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conducted the survey of 31,000 U.S. adults, asking about 27 types of therapies such as acupuncture and chiropractic, the use of herbs or botanical products, special diets, and megavitamin therapy.
About 36 percent of those surveyed said they had used one or more of those approaches. When prayer was considered, the number rose to 62 percent.
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