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Health Care News and Ideas for Medical Conference Organizers ASSOCIATION NOTES There are about 10,000 naturopaths practicing holistic medicine in the U.S., part of what the Journal of the American Medical Association estimates is a $27 billion market in alternative medicine. Naturopaths are licensed to practice in 11 states, and in 1998, bills to license them were introduced in six more. The AMA's AMNews reports that the Seattle-based American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP)