NCCAM Strategy Stresses Steps Toward Better Trials For Supplements
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
The nutritional product industry expects benefits from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine draft strategic plan's emphasis on funding more preliminary research needed to launch informative clinical trials on supplement ingredients
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