EU RESEARCH PROJECT AIMS TO IDENTIFY SOLID SCIENCE TO UNDERPIN COMPLIMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE

BY KEITH NUTHALL A EUROPEAN Union (EU) research project is trying to create consensus over scientific principles affecting complimentary and alternative medicine (CAM), sufficiently robust to inspire EU regulation. The CAMbrella project involves academics from Germany, Britain, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, Norway, Romania, Spain, France, Denmark, Austria and Sweden, ending December 2012. The EU is contributing Euro EUR1.4 million. Its aim, said a European Commission note, is developing a European research plan boosting the utility of alternative medicine, ...


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