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NIH HEAL Initiative: $1 billion to study “integrative” nonpharmacologic treatments for pain

Post author By Orac
Post date October 2, 2019
9 Comments on NIH HEAL Initiative: $1 billion to study “integrative” nonpharmacologic treatments for pain

The NIH HEAL Initiative is designed to study “nonpharmacologic treatments for pain.” What it will really study will include heaping helpings of “integrative medicine” pseudoscience.

Tags acupuncture, implementation trial, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, National Institutes of Health, NCCAM, NCCIH, NIH, pragmatic clinical trials, pragmatic trials

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