Article Related content Article metrics Rapid responses Response Rapid Response: Integrated medicine: Give Us Research! Patients may be running to the alternative therapist. But we still need to have scientific data to back up what we do. This problem is especially dangerous in the United States: The FDA does not regulate Herbal or Diet supplements. Research in alternative therapy should be more than window dressing before we "integrate." Competing interests: No competing interests 19 January 2001 Michael Loren Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Kansas
Rapid Response:
Integrated medicine: Give Us Research!
Patients may be running to the alternative therapist. But we still
need to have scientific data to back up what we do.
This problem is especially dangerous in the United States: The FDA
does not regulate Herbal or Diet supplements.
Research in alternative therapy should be more than window dressing
before we "integrate."
Competing interests: No competing interests