"Patients' desire for alternative therapies is driving changes in medical education." By MERYL DAVIDS LANDAU (FROM USnews.com) Now that nearly 40 percent of American adults swear by some form of complementary and alternative medicine, or CAM—from nutrition and mental relaxation to acupuncture, magnet therapy, and foreign healing systems like traditional Chinese medicine and Indian ayurveda—a growing number of medical schools, too, are supplementing medication with meditation. |





