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U.S. Congress establishes the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

1998

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The Office of Alternative Medicine (OAM) is elevated to the status of a National Institutes of Health (NIH) center, and becomes the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

The center is created as a scientific oversight body that investigates the safety of traditional, complementary, and integrative medicine. Questions remain as to how this criteria is determined and used to regulate practitioners and traditional medicines.

It will be renamed the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health in 2014.