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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.webmd.com/balance/news/20090730/americans-spend-34-billion-alternative-medicine">Americans Spend $34 Billion on Alternative Medicine</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.webmd.com/balance/news/20090730/americans-spend-34-billion-alternative-medicine"><DIV class="subhead_fmt">11% of Out-of-Pocket Health Care Spending Goes to CAM</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.webmd.com/balance/news/20090730/americans-spend-34-billion-alternative-medicine"><DIV class="author_fmt"> By <A href="http://www.webmd.com/susan-boyles" linkindex="114">Salynn Boyles</A><BR />WebMD Health News</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.webmd.com/balance/news/20090730/americans-spend-34-billion-alternative-medicine"> Americans spend almost a third as much money out-of pocket on herbal <A path="/webmdhttp://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/tc/dietary-supplements-topic-overview" object_type="" keywordsetid="6486" keywordid="24888" href="http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/tc/dietary-supplements-topic-overview" externalid="091e9c5e8001cf05" directive="friendlyurl" crosslinkid="30841" chronic_id="" linkindex="116">supplements</A> and other alternative medicines as they do on <A path="/webmdhttp://www.webmd.com/drugs/index-drugs.aspx" object_type="" keywordsetid="6865" keywordid="26451" href="http://www.webmd.com/drugs/index-drugs.aspx" externalid="09D1C68D81D74991" directive="friendlyurl" crosslinkid="31476" chronic_id="" linkindex="117">prescription drugs</A>, a new government report shows.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.webmd.com/balance/news/20090730/americans-spend-34-billion-alternative-medicine"><P xmlns:xalan="http://xml.apache.org/xalan">Out-of-pocket spending on herbal supplements, <A path="/webmdhttp://www.webmd.com/pain-management/tc/chiropractic-topic-overview" object_type="" keywordsetid="4744" keywordid="18219" href="http://www.webmd.com/pain-management/tc/chiropractic-topic-overview" externalid="091e9c5e8001cfbf" directive="friendlyurl" crosslinkid="25546" chronic_id="" linkindex="118">chiropractic</A> visits, <A path="/webmdhttp://www.webmd.com/depression/tc/meditation-topic-overview" object_type="" keywordsetid="6862" keywordid="26446" href="http://www.webmd.com/depression/tc/meditation-topic-overview" externalid="091e9c5e8001d422" directive="friendlyurl" crosslinkid="46883" chronic_id="" linkindex="119">meditation</A>, and other forms of complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) was estimated at $34 billion in a single year.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.webmd.com/balance/news/20090730/americans-spend-34-billion-alternative-medicine">The estimate was based on responses to a national health survey conducted in 2007 by the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.webmd.com/balance/news/20090730/americans-spend-34-billion-alternative-medicine">The bottom line is that Americans spend a lot of money on CAM products, classes, materials and practitioner visits,” National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) Director Josephine P. Briggs, MD, said in a media briefing today. “We estimate that this (represents) approximately 11% of the total out-of-pocket spending on health care</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/12645A18-4DD3-46C2-92DD-706FCEE45754/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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