Alternative medicine: Is it all in your mind?

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 134, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1422-1425

  Tausk, Francisco A ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO;

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; DRUG APPROVAL; DRUG MECHANISM; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HYPNOSIS; IMMUNOMODULATION; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT;

COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; HUMANS; PLACEBO EFFECT; SKIN DISEASES;

EID: 0031785004     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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