John WeeksI split my professional life between the Integrator and related writing and the organization featured here, the Academic Consortium for Complementary and Alternative Health Care (ACCAHC). This Quarterly Report describes how the release of the...
Barack Obama's nomination of Don Berwick, MD, MPH as administrator of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) merits the active support of the integrative practice community. Berwick became known to many in these fields through the 2009...
The concepts of prevention and health promotion and even a paradigm shift away from a disease orientation is at the heart of much integrative practice. Thus an article in the June 2010 issue of the e-newsletter of the American Holistic Medicine...
AMA specialists seek continued discrimination against integrative practitioners in effort to repeal Section 2706 of healthcare overhaul ... Ornish program receives penultimate boost toward full coverage from CMS/Medicare ... AANP proposes a...
A disturbing new report from Medco documents the growing use of major pharmaceuticals in the treatment of children. Use with childhood chronic diseases is highlighted with a particular area of concern the drug treatment of Type 2 diabetes associated...
The ink is hardly dry on the landmark Non-Discrimination in Health Care provision (Section 2706) of the Patient Protection and Healthcare Affordability Act, and MD specialists are pushing its repeal. Anesthesiologists and ophthalmologists have asked...
The American Hospital Association is gathering its members at a Leadership Summit this July, the theme of which is "Hospitals Leading Health Care's Transformation." The claim in the title struck me as quite unlikely. Two images came to mind: one of...
This article is meant as a reference resource on integrative practice and healthcare policy. Included are locations and exact language in the sections of the Patient Protection and Affordable Healthcare Act (HR 3590) that will shape policy action...
HHS Secretary Sebelius and former DNC chair Howard Dean, MD comment on acupuncture, homeopathy other natural healing methods ... US Congressman Tim Ryan champions mindfulness-based stress reduction programs in hearing; Sebelius responds ... Josiah...
The 32 practitioner integrative clinic is nearing it's 250,000 patient visit. In the economically down year of 2009, volume and revenues expanded significantly. Findings of a significant, integrative, team approach to chronic pain, engaged through a...
