John WeeksFlurry of opposition to AMA ownership of CPT codes amidst report of AMA's $70-million of annual royalties ... Center for Public Integrity reports "secretive" AMA committee that guides Medicare priorities on billions of dollars ... AAAOM, CRN...
Karla Karapetian: Report on the Penny George Institute Conference on Hospital Based Integrative Care
Imagine this: A hospital system has delivered 61,000 inpatient visits. It is committed to serving as a model for the nation so offers a conference on hospital-based integrative care. Would that be a smart place to be if one wishes to learn the ins...
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...
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...
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...
What integrative practice associations are saying about healthcare overhaul ... CMS/Medicare nominee Berwick and his principles for integrative medicine ... Patient outcomes from Penny George Institute inpatient integrative care ... Ground-breaking...
Byron Russell LAcHere is a small summary of the use of acupuncture for fertility issues from Acupuncture.com, October 2009. I was particularly struck by the comment on a study from the British Medical Journal showing nearly twice as many live births for IVF when...
Let’s get one thing straight. No one is talking about healthcare reform. There has been a smattering of talk about medical care reform--something about digitizing medical records and putting these in a database so that doctors anywhere can have...
Curious about the portion of Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds that were distributed through the NIH National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine? What has this "stimulus package" money meant to CAM research?
The call for responses to Andrew Weil's recommendations for true healthcare reform brought the most response from the naturopathic medical community, plus a mix of others. Author and AANP president Lise Alschuler, ND, FABNO commends Weil for his...
