Magnet therapy: Healing or hogwash?

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 249-250

  Flamm, Bruce L ^a  

^a KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; EDITORIAL; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAGNET; MAGNETOTHERAPY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; SURGICAL PATIENT; THERAPY EFFECT;

COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE;

EID: 33846408312     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000250925.20995.a1     Document Type: Editorial

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