John WeeksHere is a treat. Beltway resident, reporter and Healing Touch practitioner Daphne White, CHTP reports for us on the historic February 23, 2009 U.S. Senate hearing on the "principles of integrative health care" chaired by Barbara Mikulski (D-MD)...
For many of us, this weeks' "integrative health policy week" in Washington, DC actually began with the robust Integrative Healthcare Symposium (IHS) in New York City last week where a multidisciplinary gathering of 1300 met to explore policy...
James Gordon, MD, past chair of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy, held a Healthcare Community Discussion on December 30th. But anyone who knows Gordon's interests will guess that he assembled a wide-ranging...
Can medical doctors share clinical power and decision-making with acupuncturists, naturopathic doctors, social workers, nutritionists and others from other disciplines? This article is based on information from the multidisciplinary "Decision...
If you were in charge of research on all complementary, alternative and integrative medicine, what do you think the priorities should be? Where should we be investing to give us the maximum value for our research dollar? Here are details on the...
Caught up in separate challenges and campaigns, sometimes fighting against each other, holistic medical doctors, nurses, naturopathic physicians, acupuncture and Oriental medicine practitioners and other don’t often pause to realize how their...
In 2005, Hawaii's major Blue Cross Blue Shield carrier, HMSA, contracted with Manakai O Malama, the integrative clinic founded by Ira Zunin, MD, MPH, MBA on an unusual integrative, outpatient pilot for some of their most costly, pain-ridden...
Questions about the direction of the NIH research agenda on complementary and alternative medicine have stimulated numerous subsets of researchers to promote a significant shift from reductive to whole systems models. A similar direction and...
Integrative Medicine, developed and edited by David Rakel, MD, makes quite an impression. The 1238 page volume, with over 100 authors, 97% either MD/DO or medical-school affiliated, marks an arrival and launching pad for that field. The text asserts...
Marc Micozzi, MD,PhD, convened an early federal exploration of complementary and integrative medicine, wrote the first academic textbook on complementary and integrative medicine, worked with Dr. Koop on his dot.com website (may it rest), and ran an...
