No one doubts whether the Bravewell Collaborative's new mapping study added useful understanding of the nation's health system-sponsored and academiac health center-sponsored integrative clinics. But do these thumbnails, reports and tables on these...
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute draft plan comment period ends March 15: No CAM-IM presently included Dana Ullman, MPH: Swiss government finds homeopathy cost-effective, covers in national health plan; Update: Marilyn Allen and the...
IHPC publishes integrative care stakeholder report on Affordable Care Act ... Center for Practical Bioethics forms national group to promote Institute of Medicine pain blueprint ... Huffington Post publishes Top 10 lists for 2011 ... Grassroots...
AMA's influence on payment attacked in court and by McDermott in Congress ... Allina's accountable care organization (ACO) CEO calls integrative medicine financial asset ... Trompeter and Zunin: new economics of patient-centered medical homes (PCMH)...
PCORI seeks input on definition of patient-centered outcomes research and "Tier 1 Pilot Projects" ... Bill would allow payment for supplements under Health Savings Accounts ... NCCAM-funded team explores role of CAM practitioners in Accountable Care...
Integrator Special Report shares 15 key areas where complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and related terms are explicitly included in IOM's major report on pain care, education and research ... Segments identified where 125 page National...
Some associated with integrative practice who read David H. Freedman's recent Atlantic Monthly feature, "The Triumph of New Age Medicine," are repelled. Some don't get past the wave of antagonism from the anti-CAM vigilantes. Some don't like...
British Columbia government partners with InspireHealth to expand integrated cancer care to 5 new clinics ... U.S. panel seeks to implant complementary and integrative services in US prevention and health promotion strategy ... HRSA-backed push for...
An exchange with two friends over a decision about a bike trip in Moab, Utah brought to mind a distinction author Kurt Vonnegut made in his 1963 book, Cat's Cradle. Vonnegut describes as a "karass" a true community of people who are "often...
Opportunity for input on CAM/IM practices and practitioners in the future of primary care ... Brief report (assisted by Taylor Walsh) on the integrative health themes in the first Advisory Group meeting on the National Prevention and Health...