This IBID database sounds alot like the one I posted the web site info on a while back, and no one could get through to it. Maybe it's become more "official" now. Probably, it came under OAM (Office of Alternative Medicine) since I first found it. Oh, by the way, I'll try to bring in a letter, written by Dr. Bernie Siegel (a well-respected, Harvard trained MD, who is also into alternative medicine) in response to a recent AMA article against alternative medicine. I think some of the points he makes would pertinent for those who are convinced of the lack of (scientific) credibility of anything "alternative". Wendy Tebay