In This Newsletter:

- A Quick Survey of What's Involved

- Why People Turn to CAM

- Does This Stuff Ever Work?

- Recent Health Care News You Should Know About

- Check Out Our Previous Tips

- Excerpt from Introduction:

With nearly half of adult Americans telling surveyors that they've tried alternative medicine, it's about time to get down to some hard questions:

Does it work? Is it worth the money? Should complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) be reserved only for desperate souls for whom conventional medicine has run out of treatments? Or does it have a larger place?

This month we discuss complementary and alternative medicine, why they appeal to some people and whether they have proven benefits or harms.