How Come There Is No Proof For CAM When Other Medicine Has Proof?
The CAM field is often criticized for not having a great deal of solid scientific evidence on safety and effectiveness. Some of the reason for this lack is that the field as a whole has not had the same infrastructure or resources as mainstream medicine – meaning that there has not been the money, the research expertise, nor the large institutional support to facilitate extensive, high-quality studies and investigation. This is now changing, however, as the federal government is supporting the National Institutes of Health in funding this field (through the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, NCCAM and other Institutes. Also, many programs in CAM, such as ours at the University of Maryland, are now being developed at academic medical centers around the country with support from NCCAM, the NIH and other private sources and are pushing forward the work in this field. acupuncture Significant progress is now being made in collecting and evaluating all the existing s
