An Alternate Route

TREATMENT

Complementary medicines like yoga may improve your health, but many
doctors are hesitant to prescribe them due to lack of scientific evidence
of their benefits. But thanks to President Clinton's White House
Commission on Alternative Medicine, plans for more clinical trials on
alternative treatments are under way and under physicians' watchful
eyes.

Among the many programs benefiting from the Commission--established
in March 2000 to invest resources in scientific analysis of alternative
medicine--is the new health center, Haelth. Taken from an Old English
word meaning "whole," its name incorporates the founders' philosophy of
addressing all aspects of health--body, mind and spirit. Haelth recently
opened in New York and offers personalized programs combining nutrition,
exercise, massage and mind-body practices--all reviewed by an advisory
board of physicians, researchers and complementary care practitioners.
Several of the board members are also on the White House Commission,
including the center's founder William Fair, Ph.D., a urology oncologist
at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

Haelth's specialists continuously monitor new scientific findings
and plan to establish a research foundation to help develop clinical
standards for alternative treatments of various illnesses. "We hope we
can help further the commission's mission in terms of getting access for
people to health and furthering complementary medicine and its research,"
says Tracy Wiens, the center's marketing director. For additional
information, visit www.Haelth.com.