Irritable bowel syndrome: are complementary and alternative medicine treatments useful?

Can Fam Physician

Department of Family Medicine and Community Health and Epidemiology, Queen's University, Family Medicine, 220 Bagot St, Kingston, ON K7L 5E9.

Published: February 2009

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