| Item Description: | Foreword: "These proceedings grew from parallel discussions among staff of the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) and members of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)...It was only after each group of discussants learned that others at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) shared their interests in the placebo, that a plan began to unfold to collaborate on a broad-based multidisciplinary hearing." An overview: "...the NIH hosted such a meeting on November 19-21, 2000". |