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) which, as a multidisciplinary entity, lives and breaths the...
A doctor level, non-MD academic friend from a conventional medical school who has expertise in complementary and alternative medicine inadvertently stepped into a militarized zone the other day. On a conference call with a multidisciplinary group of...
Harvard's Niteesh Choudhry, MD, PhD and Pacific Business Group on Health medical director Arnold Milstein, MD, MPH take on the most hard-fought "CAM" versus conventional question: Are the covered services of chiropractic physicians (as they are...
Welcome to this Integrator travelogue, linking you to international policy developments in traditional medicine and complementary and alternative medicine practices ... A citizen's referendum in Switzerland forces inclusion of CAM practices in...
Author and integrative medicine spokesperson Andrew Weil, MD is one of the nation's most recognized medical doctors. His is certainly the face of integrative medicine. This month, Weil put that face and influence directly in service to a "call to...
Top NCCAM-funded researcher Berman founds Institute for Integrative Health ... Walsh''s examination of inclusion (or not) of CAM/integrative practitioners in US House healthcare reform bill ... Economist/researcher Herman reports 9 therapies/21...
A Canadian “CAM” researcher associated with Marja Verhoef, PhD’s highly respected shop at the University of Calgary sent me an email to see if leaders in the Academic Consortium for Complementary and Alternative Health Care (ACCAHC) might be...
Preliminary results of a systematic review of approximately 6600 articles so far found 256 with CAM economic evaluations. Forty-eight were deemed "high quality," with comparisons available. These yielded 9 therapies and 21 conditions where...
"I'm beginning to wonder if some new model of looking at the CAM/integrative health care markets may be required." So writes Stephen Bolles, DC, in this thoughtful reflection on the controversial NCCAM survey which concluded that the visits to CAM...
Anyone who wants to see how integrative practice fits into the best currents of actual clinical reform in conventional medicine will want to download or purchase 21st Century Medicine: A New Model for Medical Education and Practice. This savvy 142...
