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Clinton Creates Commission on Alternative Medicine

Wed, 03/15/2000 - 12:00am — Karen Stevenson
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President Clinton signed an executive order to create the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy. The commission is to report on the education and training of health care practitioners in complementary and alternative medicine, coordinated research to increase knowledge about complementary and alternative medicine practices and products, the provision to health care professionals of reliable and useful information about complementary and alternative medicine that can be made readily accessible and understandable to the general public, and guidance for appropriate access to and delivery of complementary and alternative medicine.

President Clinton signed an executive order to create the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy. The commission is to report on the education and training of health care practitioners in complementary and alternative medicine, coordinated research to increase knowledge about complementary and alternative medicine practices and products, the provision to health care professionals of reliable and useful information about complementary and alternative medicine that can be made readily accessible and understandable to the general public, and guidance for appropriate access to and delivery of complementary and alternative medicine.