There is an interesting article in the Nutrition Business Journal about a Washington Post article, that shared some grumblings about the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
A juicy quote from the Post article:
“With a new administration and President Obama’s stated goal of moving science to the forefront, now is the time for scientists to start speaking up about issues that concern us,” Steven Salzberg, a genome researcher and computational biologist at the University of Maryland, said last week. “One of our concerns is that the NIH is funding pseudoscience.”
Recent research projects on chiropractic care supported by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) have focused on the:
- Effectiveness of chiropractic treatments for back pain, neck pain, and headache, as well as for other health conditions such as temporomandibular disorders
- Development of a curriculum to increase the number of chiropractors involved in research
Influence of people’s satisfaction with chiropractic care on their response to treatment.
