Joint guardians of health It will still take a long time to establish just what specific curative effects alternative therapies have. But since the former Office of Alternative Medicine at the US National Institutes of Health was expanded into a "national center" in 1998, its annual research budget has grown hugely, from US $ 2 million then to US $ 150 million today.
共同守護健康要回答另類療法究竟有何具體療效，還需要很長時間，但美國國家衛生研究院的另類療法局在一九九八年擴大成「中心」後，研究經費已從二百萬美元大幅增加到現在的一億五千萬美元。