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FRONTLINE examines the controversy over complementary and
alternative medical treatments.
The past few years have seen an explosion in the popularity -
and profitability - of complementary and alternative
medicine. 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 it. But the question
remains: Do these treatments actually work? FRONTLINE
examines the controversy over complementary and alternative medical
treatments.