|Articles|February 1, 2004

Alternative medicine needs science

Waikoloa, HI - Dermatologists must keep informed about alternative medicine, said Wilma Bergfeld, M.D. "We need to build a knowledge base from the scientific literature and apply it to what patients are already doing."

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