In the USA, in 1992, US Congress established the Office for Alternative Medicine in the National Institutes of Health.
The mandate of this Office was extended in 1999, with the Office becoming the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM).
NCCAM has received progressive budget increases — by 2000, its budget had risen to US$ 68.4 million. Concurrently in 2000, the White House set up the White House Commission on Alternative Medicine.
Created by an executive order on 8 March 2000, the Commission is charged with developing a set of legislative and administrative recommendations to maximize the benefits of CAM for the general public. It has ten members, including senators and experts.
The USA also has a large number of units for CAM research, based at research institutions such as the University of Maryland, Columbia University in New York, Harvard University in Massachusetts, and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
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