Many of us use chiropractors. Yet the resistance to integration of chiropractic into the care provided by hospitals and health systems has been profound, despite the movement for so-called “integrative medicine.” For the last 4 years, the Veteran’s...
We've all been acculturated to a belief that our health care is best performed one-to-one, with a clinician. But does this assumption need review as we think of transforming our medical system? Mounting evidence - not to mention core educational...
Since Josephine Briggs, MD – a scientist with virtually no background in complementary or integrative medicine - was named to head the NIH National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, she's faced questions from me and from many other...
The Scope of Practice Partnership (SOPP) of the American Medical Association, organized to "thwart" scope of practice increases of other disciplines, is being met be a strong, multi-disciplinary coalition.
Bravo to Marja Verhoef, PhD and her team with the Canadian Interdisciplinary Network for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research (IN-CAM)! On March 31, 2008, IN-CAM unveiled the IN-CAM Outcomes Database. The project, funded through the Lotte...
It is common for major pharmaceutical companies to sponsor programs that seek to service employer interests. But recently Immunolabs, which supplies laboratory testing services for integrative practitioners, decided to devote resources toward...
Running into a buzz saw. That may be the best description of what happened to the MD-led integrative medicine educators when they told some CAM educators that they were about to publish an articles in Academic Medicine on competencies in integrative...
Peter Amato and Steve Szydlowski, DHA, MBA, consulted on the integrative wellness center that would be associated with the 313 acre Deep Lake sustainable community and resort envisioned for rural Michigan and reported here in December 2007. The two...
Peter Amato and Steve Szydlowski, DHA, MBA, consulted on the integrative wellness center that would be associated with the 313 acre Deep Lake sustainable community and resort envisioned for rural Michigan and reported here in December 2007. The two...
We know from a CodeBlueNow! Pulse survey that 69% of voters in red state Iowa think licensed practitioners like chiropractors, acupuncturists and naturopathic physicians should be included in basic benefits. Now a follow-up survey, using the same...
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