From The April 2001 Issue of Nutrition Science News

Cornell Goes Complementary

NEW YORK—Bringing complementary and alternative healing modalities into the mainstream will be the goal of Cornell University's new center for integrative medicine, located here. "People want integrative care," says Mitchell Gaynor, M.D., the medical director of the Weill Cornell Center for Complementary and Integrative Medicine. "What you're seeing today is a glimpse of what medicine will look like 50 years from now." The center aims to educate medical students about nutrition, rigorously test the effectiveness of herbal remedies, conduct epidemiological studies of traditional medicines and evaluate the effectiveness of psychobiological approaches to healing such as meditation, music therapy and yoga.