The concept of coaching patients toward healthy behavior is deeply embedded in many integrative disciplines and practices. The healthcoach.com website, for instance, was claimed at the dawn of the worldwide web by a naturopathic doctor. The use of a...
Credit the current NCCAM administration for fostering a spirit of open dialogue and give-and-take in its National Advisory Council. Washington DC-based writer Taylor Walsh captures some of the bandying of ideas and differences of opinion...
NCCAM issues DRAFT 2011-2015 strategic plan, includes "real world" and health-promoting outcomes; Briggs on researching complex approaches; Canada Post outcomes show effectiveness and cost-savings from whole practice of integrative naturopathic...
The American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP), the national professional association for the nation's 4000 naturopathic physicians, celebrated its 25th anniversary conference in Portland, Oregon in August. This report offers snapshots...
Preliminary results from a randomized controlled pragmatic trial of the whole practice of naturopathic medicine for Canada Post employees with elevated cardiovascular risk found treatment by integrative naturopathic doctors to be both effective and...
The emerging field of inter-professional education (IPE) is viewed by many as a chief contributor to the kind of optimal integration needed to most enhance patient care. The integrative practice fields tend to embrace this trend as part of the...
The AMA's resolution in favor of discrimination against other providers as amended ... Licensed midwives take one from OB-GYNs in New York ... Legislation introduced to get DCs into US Public Health Service ... Samueli Institute links with Joint...
Duke Raleigh Hospital COO Richard J. Gannotta, NP, DHA discovered via a data search that the literature is exceedingly thin on inpatient integrative medicine programs. He wanted data on how programs are faring in the 3 critical areas of clinical...
Scott Shannon, MD, president-elect of the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine (ABIHM) wants to see "ecological medicine" integrated into "the next iteration of holism." A fall conference co-sponsored by UCSF Osher Center and the Whole...
Integrated Healthcare Policy Consortium calls for input in next phase of national policy work for integrative care ... AMA to urge repeal of Section 2706/non-discrimination; chiropractic organization says "over our dead bodies" ... Holistic doctors...
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