According to this recent survey, manipulative therapy was the 3rd most commonly used NCCAM classification of CAM categories ( 10. 9 %) in the United States during 2002 ( table 4 on page 10 ) when all use of prayer was excluded.

The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine ( NCCAM ), formerly the Office of Alternative Medicine ( OAM ), is a United States government agency dedicated to exploring complementary and alternative medicine ( CAM ) healing practices in the context of rigorous science, in training complementary and alternative medicine researchers, and in disseminating authoritative information to the public and professionals.

The NCCAM funds research into complementary and alternative medicine, including support for clinical trials of CAM techniques.

The NCCAM charter states that " Of the 18 appointed members ( of the council ) 12 shall be selected from among the leading representatives of the health and scientific disciplines ( including not less than 2 individuals who are leaders in the fields of public health and the behavioral or social sciences ) relevant to the activities of the NCCAM, particularly representatives of the health and scientific disciplines in the area of complementary and alternative medicine.

The charter said that 12 of the 18 members of the NCCAM Advisory Council " shall be selected from among the leading representatives of the health and scientific disciplines in the area of complementary and alternative medicine.

Ayurveda, Chinese medicine, Homeopathy and Naturopathy are cited as examples The term appears to have entered into usage through the National Institute of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine ( NCCAM ), which began to employ it as a substitute for alternative medical systems as a way of differentiating widely comprehensive systems of medicine, such as Ayurvedic medicine, from specialized alternative approaches.

The university had received more than $ 20 million in funding from different branches of the National Institutes of Health as of 2002 The university's Department of Physiology and the Institute for Natural Medicine and Prevention received $ 8 million from the NIH National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine ( NCCAM ) to establish the first research center in the U. S. specializing in natural preventive medicine for minorities.

With the increasing profile and budget of the Center, Stephen Straus, a former laboratory chief at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, was brought in to head NCCAM with a mandate to promote a more rigorous and scientific approach to the study of alternative medicine.

Critics allege that despite the publicized intentions at its founding, NCCAM and its predecessor, the Office of Alternative Medicine, have spent more than $ 800 million on such research since 1991 but have neither succeeded in demonstrating the efficacy of a single alternative method, nor declared any alternative medicine treatment ineffective.

They recommended NCCAM be defunded or abolished, and the concepts of funding alternative medicine be discontinued.

Its lists include two-time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling ( whose claims about mega-doses of vitamin C are criticized ), the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine ( NCCAM ), and integrative medicine proponent Andrew Weil.

The US National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine ( NCCAM ) classifies CAM therapies into five categories or domains, including: alternative medical systems, or complete systems of therapy and practice ; mind-body interventions, or techniques designed to facilitate the mind's effect on bodily functions and symptoms ; biologically based systems including herbalism ; and manipulative and body-based methods such as chiropractic and massage therapy.

A full randomized trial of TAT versus standard weightloss management intervention is currently being conducted, funded by the NCCAM.

The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine ( NCCAM ) and other NIH-affiliated organizations hold that St John's wort has minimal or no effects beyond placebo in the treatment of major depression.

This conclusion is based primarily on one trial of 340 volunteers, with negative outcome conducted by NCCAM.

The NCCAM is one of the 27 institutes and centers that make up the National Institutes of Health ( NIH ) within the Department of Health and Human Services of the federal government of the United States.

NCCAM was established in October 1991, as the " Office of Alternative Medicine " ( OAM ), which was re-established as NCCAM in October 1998.

On January 24, 2008, Josephine P. Briggs, M. D., was named Director of NCCAM.

The NCCAM budget for 2005 was $ 123 million.

The NIH's Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine had the same budget as NCCAM, $ 122 million, for fiscal year 2009.

The NCCAM budget for 2011 was $ 127. 7 million.

Another example is his very infrequent use of the large amount of data from surveys designed to discover what and how people actually do feel and think on a broad range of topics: he cites such survey-type findings just three times.

However, in the use section of the entry it states that the more common plural is mice, and that the first recorded use of the term in the plural is mice as well ( though it cites a 1984 use of mice when there were actually several earlier ones ).

Solomon cites the Xerox corporation's use of Dilbert strips and characters in internally distributed ' inspirational ' pamphlets:

The Oxford English dictionary cites a 1962 technical report as the first to use the term " data-base.

He cites as examples Hollywood coverage and the use of language in publications like Empire Magazine, as well as blockbuster dominance in multiplexes, but he also notes that this is an industrial matter: " The Full Monty was entirely financed and distributed by one of the US majors, Twentieth Century Fox, The praise went to Britain, but all the film ’ s profits went to America.

One patent cites use of these indicators for wall coating applications for light colored paints.

" Davidson says that while the creature may vary, the horse is fairly common " in the lands where horses are in general use, and Sleipnir's ability to bear the god through the air is typical of the shaman's steed " and cites an example from a study of shamanism by Mircea Eliade of an eight-legged foal from a story of a Buryat shaman.

The Oxford English Dictionary cites the first recorded use of the word in the English language as a verb in 1661, in Edmund Hickeringill's Jamaca Viewed: " Some are slain, And their flesh forthwith Barbacu'd and eat.

Since the 18th century, " Orientalist " has been the traditional term for a scholar of Oriental studies ; however the use in English of " Orientalism " to describe the academic subject of " Oriental studies " is rare ; the Oxford English Dictionary cites only one such usage, by Lord Byron in 1812.

Jaynes cites Abel for the first known use of the associativity functional equation.

" Clark Humphrey, editor of Desperate Times, cites this as the earliest use of the term to refer to a Seattle band, and mentions that Bruce Pavitt of Sub Pop popularized the term as a musical label in 1987 – 88, using it on several occasions to describe Green River.

Actually, “ Jewish problem ” was the name the Germans gave to their persecution of the Jews ; “ drug-abuse problem ” is the name we give to the persecution of people who use certain drugs. Szasz cites Rep. James M. Hanley referring to drug users as " vermin ," using " the same metaphor for condemning persons who use or sell illegal drugs that the Nazis used to justify murdering Jews by poison gas -- namely, that the persecuted persons are not human beings, but ' vermin.

The Oxford English Dictionary cites an 1891 use of the term " bull market ".

German sexologist Volkmar Sigusch may have been the first to use the term cissexual ( zissexuell in German ) in a peer-reviewed publication: in his 1998 essay " The Neosexual Revolution ", he cites his two-part 1991 article " Die Transsexuellen und unser nosomorpher Blick " (" Transsexuals and our nosomorphic view ") as the origin of the term.

) cites the use of homo oeconomicus by C. S. Devas in his 1883 work The Groundwork of Economics in reference to Mill's writings, as one of a number of phrases that imitate the scientific name for the human species:

She cites the first use in this manner to a Venezuelan radio DJ named Phidias Danilo Escalona ; Arsenio Rodriguez is often recognized to be an important salsa composer ; he wrotes in the 40s Mami me gusto, Fuego en el 23 and El divorcio.

" Lee cites Theodore Kelsey, a Living Treasure of Hawai ' i renowned for his work as a Hawaiian translator who wrote a letter to Long in 1936 ( now in the Hawai ' i State Archives ) criticizing his use of the terms " unihipili " and " aumakua.

Many sources claim the term was coined earlier ( for example, the Online Etymology Dictionary cites 1984 ) but easy online access to William Safire's article about the term has led many ( such as Oxford English Dictionary ) to believe that August 28, 1989 was its first use.

" The Oxford English Dictionary also cites the use of the word in an advertisement for an unnamed car in The Motor dated 3 November 1920, " The Supreme development of the British super-car.

He cites Hitler's speeches declaring that small states have no right to exist, and the Nazi use of Haushofer's maps, language and arguments.

He makes frequent use of primary sources ( or contemporary chroniclers ) and cites them as he goes along.