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The Department of Health and Human Services has simply posted the recommendations on the commission's Web site, the Reuters news agency reports.
The 20-member panel's recommendations are not binding, but Commission Chairman Jim Gordon, a psychiatrist and director of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine, thinks they will be scrutinized and acted on despite other pressing issues on the health care agenda.
"The reason the Commission was created is that a major portion of the American public is using these therapies and they want better information on them," Gordon told the Reuters news agency. "So if the public demands that this report be attended to, the report will be attended to."
The Commission estimated that 158 million Americans spent $17 billion on dietary supplements alone in 2000.
The report urged more federal funding of basic research, and into training investigators and practitioners. And the panel called on the government to make sure that accurate information on CAM - Complementary and Alternative Medicine - is available to the public. This could be done by creating a task force at HHS to coordinate information exchange within the government, said Gordon.
The group could help insurers and employers decide which CAM interventions should be covered. The panel said that insurers should consider covering techniques and therapies that have been shown to be safe and effective and to improve health or functioning.
Controversial from the start, the commission took several hits during its two-year existence - including from two of its own members.
Joseph Fins, director of medical ethics at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell, and Tierona Low Dog, a New Mexico-based acupuncturist, wrote a separate statement, included in the report's appendix.
According to Reuters, they said they the Commission did not "appropriately acknowledge the limitations of unproven and unvalidated CAM [Complementary and Alternative Medicine] interventions or adequately address minimization of risk."
To view the Reuters story at Yahoo! click here.
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