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Complementary Medicine Research Unit
Community Clinical Sciences, University of Southampton Southampton, UK
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One in ten of the UK population use complementary medicine each year and
50% are lifetime users. The recent House of Lords' Report has clearly defined a public need for further research into both safety and efficacy. The Department of Health research capacity building initiative is one of the first main responses to the Select Committee's recommendations. We know that within this emerging field we have developed a unit with cooperative ventures within the university, both intra-faculty and inter-faculty. As a consequence, we have been able to draw in major funding along with a growing body of academic publications.
Our unit was established by George Lewith in 1995 with his appointment as Honorary Visiting Senior Lecturer. He now has a University contract as a Reader within the Department of Primary Care where the unit is located. The unit was initially provided with core funding by the Maurice Laing Foundation and
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For reprints and all correspondence: George Lewith, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Department of Medicine, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK. Tel: +44-0-23-8024-1073; E-mail: GL3@soton.ac.uk
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