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Alternative therapies: Get ready to be twisted and stretched

Alternative therapies: Balancing of elements seen as key to good life

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Alternative therapies: Little suckers a first taste of unusual medicines

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Consumer Watchdog: Cheap drugs

Some pharmacies are charging more than twice the standard price for prescription drugs.