Might Watch This PBS Special Alternative Medicin Report If In Your Area....

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but take it with a few grains of salt, PBS or no...

 

 

Vernon Zigler <vzigler>

Tue Apr 27, 2004 2:43 am

PBS TV show that may be of interest

 

 

> [PP] PBS TV show that may be of interest

 

>

> Program that is coming up in May on our Maryland PBS

> station that may be

> of interest. Check your local stations to see if it

> runs in your area.

>

>

>

<http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/altmed/>

> " The

> Alternative Fix " (#2203)

> FRONTLINE examines the explosion in the popularity -

> and profitability -

> of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).

> Under pressure from

> everyone from consumers to Congress - and tempted by

> huge grants - major

> hospitals and medical schools have embraced

> therapies that they once

> dismissed as quackery. So accepted, in fact, have

> alternative medical

> treatments become that an entire center of the

> National Institutes of

> Health is now devoted to CAM. But the question

> remains: Do these

> treatments actually work? FRONTLINE examines the

> controversy over

> complementary and alternative medical treatments.

> Through interviews

> with staunch supporters, skeptical scientists and

> observers on both

> sides of the debate, the one-hour documentary

> examines how these popular

> treatments are facing increased scrutiny as the

> first real studies of

> their effectiveness are published, and questions

> whether hospitals that

> offer alternative therapies are conferring a sense

> of legitimacy on

> these largely untested and scientifically unproven

> treatments.

>

> Rebroadcast; Length: 56 min

>

> For web based information on the show and the topic:

>

>

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/altmed/