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Letters: Criticism for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Therapies in Rheumatoid Arthritis

Maarten Boers, MSc, MD, PhD, and Chenchen Wang, MD, MSc  |  Issue: December 2013  |  December 1, 2013

Chenchen Wang, MD, MSc
Center For Complementary and Integrative Medicine
Division of Rheumatology
Tufts University School of Medicine
Boston

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