About the Authors

Claudia M. Witt

claudia.witt@charite.de

Affiliations University of Maryland School of Medicine, Center for Integrative Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Charité University Medical Center, Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Berlin, Germany

Eric Manheimer

Affiliation University of Maryland School of Medicine, Center for Integrative Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Richard Hammerschlag

Affiliation Research Department, Oregon College of Oriental Medicine, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Rainer Lüdtke

Affiliation Carstens Foundation, Essen, Germany

Lixing Lao

Affiliation University of Maryland School of Medicine, Center for Integrative Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Sean R. Tunis

Affiliation Center for Medical Technology Policy, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Brian M. Berman

Affiliation University of Maryland School of Medicine, Center for Integrative Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CMW BB. Performed the experiments: RH EM RL LL CMW. Analyzed the data: CMW RL. Wrote the paper: CMW EM RH RL LL SRT BB.