John WeeksHarvard'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...
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...
"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...
Controversial NCCAM report suggests use of CAM practitioners may be down 50% between 1997 and 2007 ... IHPC offers opportunity for integrative practice community to participate in federal policy work, starting with thanking US Senator Sanders ...
Certain voices in the US Senate have been talking about the need for a paradigm shift in health reform, toward policy which helps us move to a "wellness society." Wayne Jonas, MD, and his coalition through the Samueli Institute have been promoting...
Integrative services double at Providence Integrative Cancer Care ... CAM gains mention in IOM and Obama Council's report on directions for comparative effectiveness research (CER), plus Calabrese comments ... Licensed CAM, integrative practice and...
The good news is that, if you missed the 2009 North American Research Conference on Complementary and Integrative Medicine, May 12-15, you can still access much of the wonderful cornucopia of what it offered. Innovision Health Media created an...
Poll on health reform finds public favors investment in prevention over treatment by 4 to one margin ... Obama on acupuncture and prevention ... U.S. Senator Murray goes to bat for expanding chiropractic to all VA facilities ... Bravewell...
Vicki and Ron Simms back ambitious new integrative oncology center at UCLA ... U Virginia adds acupuncture to employee benefits ... California budget crunch sweeps acupuncture, chiropractic, other services out of Medicaid ... Sullivan column...
In this section of a two-part series, Integrator contributor Daphne White, CHTP focuses on the political-economic dynamics behind the $1.1 billion "clinical effectiveness research" (CER) initiative. White examines what she calls the "Kabuki play" ...
