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Written by John Weeks
John Weeks
Feel free to sign-up on the right to be alerted to new developments in integrative health and medicine via Integrator newsletters such as those listed below. For articles from March 2006-March 2016, see the Archive on the right. For articles since, see below. For more on me, see my new site: johnweeks-integrator.com . I send 2 newsletters per month and no more than 2-4 additional Integrator Alerts or Integrator Specials per month to highlight individual topics or actions. Recent editions:
Integrator #200: SIO Integrative Cancer Model Endorsed; Frates at Harvard/Integrating Lifestyle into Academics; Walsh/K-12 Whole Health Education, plus ... July 7, 2018 Integrator Resource: Collaborative Action 2001-2018 in Integrative Health and Medicine Integrator #199: Mandates-Chiros/VA; Interprofessional Leader Thibault/Philanthropic Glass Ceilings, plus ... June 17, 2018 Integrator Special: Chronology of Top Policy Action in Integrative Health, Plus SCU Relationship Integrator #198: Maskell/Insurance Model with Functional/IM; Gov't Report/ND Coverage; Vermont Data/Acu Medicaid Pilot, plus ... June 3, 2018 Integrator #197: Actuary Model/Lifestyle Business Success; Leadership Changes/Consortium & AIHM; ANF-NCCAOM; Biomedical Colonialism, plus ... May 20, 2018 Integrator #196: Actuary ACLM/Huge ROI; Goertz Leaves Palmer/$27-Million; IM4US Conference; Ullman/Homeopathy Course ... May 6, 2018 Integrator#195: Jonas/How Healing Works; Naturopaths/Global Research Efforts; Integrative/Lower Antibiotic Use ... April 22, 2018 Integrator Action: Invitation from WHO/PAHO to add integrative to new primary care definition Integrator Special: Report of Fewer Antibiotic Prescriptions from Integrative Doctors Urges Additional Research Priority Integrator #194: Mikhail Kogan/Integrative Geriatrics-Bredesen; Cedars Sinai Clinic/MD-ND Team; Wostrel/Collaborative Director; Gahles/NAM Practitioner Burnout & JOh, plus ... April 8, 2018 Integrator #193: IHPC/Congressional Briefing; Langevin-Wayne/Next Steps for Acu Research; Ullman/Homeopathy FDA; DCs-NDs-LAcs/SCO Health Coaching, plus ... March 25, 2018 Integrator #192: Osher's Chao-Adler/IHM Social Justice; Saper/STAT IM Defamation; Neimtzow-Battlefield Acupuncture/Air Force; VA/Licensed Acupuncturists, plus ... March 11, 2018 Integrator Alert: Call Congress Regarding Caucus and IHPC Briefing Integrator #191: Boon-Ijaz/Colonialism and Integration; Opioids/Good for Acupuncture; Knutson Hackensack/Leadership-Resilience, plus ... February 25, 2018 Integrator Special: Lori Knutson and the Convergence of $10-Million and Cultural Creativity at Hackensack Meridian Integrative Health Integrator #190: AAMC/Consortium-Opioids, Rosen-Walsh/K12 Integrative Health, Mills-Chopra Center/Non-Duality, King-Healing Touch/Veterans, Naming JACM, plus ... February 11, 2018 Integrator #189: Myles Spar, MD/NBA Players, Chiros-Dalai Llama-Georgia Prisoners, WHO/"Integrative", IHM Female CEOs Integrator Special: In the AMA Celebration of Job Creation from MD Practices, the Challenge for Integrative Health Integrator #188: Penny George-$2.5-million/Wellbeing-YMCA, Michael Smith Dies, Hatch Retires/Industry, Rethinking Joint Commission, plus ... January 14, 2018 Integrator Special : Regarding Hens, Pigs and Breakfast: Starting January 1, Joint Commission Requires Hospitals to Offer Integrative Pain StrategiesDecember 2017
Integrator #187: Tick-Nielsen-Consortium/Pain White Paper, Reflections/Top 10, Connor Integrative/$6.5-Million, Honoring Jeanne Drisko/U Kansas Transition- December 31, 2017Integrator Special : The Coming of the Light - 2017 Integrator Top 10 for Policy and Action in Integrative Health and MedicineIntegrator Special : Open Letter to Josie Briggs, MD on Your Decade Directing Integrative Health Research at NIHIntegrator #186: SIO Integrative Onc/NCI, ND Weber/NCCIH Leader, Clinton-Hopkins/Opioids, James Duke, plus - December 21, 2017Integrator #185: Cong Caucus/1880 Letters, Results/VT Medicaid Acu Pilot, Guarneri-AIHM/Vatican, Katz/G7 Health, $5.5 Million/Osher Collaborative, plus .. December 3, 2017Integrator #184: NCI/Integrative Onc Scholars, Ather Ali/IN Memoriam, IHPC's Wisneski/Congressional Caucus, plus ... November 12, 2017Integrator Alert : Write to Congress to Join Integrative Health and Wellness CaucusOctober 2017
Integrator Special : IHM Researcher Mills Reports Glyphosate Elevation in JAMAIntegrator #182: Integrative Pain/Clinician One-Pager; WA/Acu Payment; MN/Team Care Payment, Mind Matters/Money Matters, HPC/Product Quality, plus ... October 15, 2017Integrator #181: AGs/IHM Coverage, ACA Chiros/New Focus, U Minn/$14-Million, Seely/Roger's Prize, plus ... October 1, 2017 Integrator Special : Shameful Media Response on Samuelis' $200-Million IHM InvestmentIntegrator #180: IHM NAM/Opioids, WHO-PAHO/Trad Med, Levin/Product Quality, UCSD/IHM Centers, plus ... September 26, 2017Integrator #179: Trump Opioids/IHM, Homeo/FDA Teething Agents, ACIH Exec, plus ... September 17, 2017Integrator #178: Herman RAND/Mindfulness Cost, DCs/Choosing Wisely; RAN/Military Use IHM, MaineCare/NADA Protocol, plus ... August 20, 2017Integrator #177: IHPC, ANF-ASA/Opioids, Homeo Cert Accredited, ND/Veterans, YA/IAYT, Dave Mittelman, plus ... August 6, 2017Integrator #176: Joint Commission/Non-Pharma, AANP/Women Leaders/Strategy, Yoga/Neuroscience Lab, Sommers/APHA, Bakken Honored, plus ... July 23, 2017Integrator #175: Republican Plan/IHM, AIPM-Twillman/Pain Policy, IHM/Lower Absensentiism, Ohio/Acu Medicaid, ND Medical Homes, plus ... July 2, 2017 June 2017
Integrator #174: Consumer Reports/Integrative Pain, SCU Scaringe/Interprofessional-Culture, Growth of Yoga Therapy, Berwick/Systems Safety, plus .. June 18, 2017Integrator #173: NAM/ACIH Wellness-Resiliency, Marching for Effectiveness Science, AHPA Practitioner Compounding, plus ... June 6, 2017Integrator #172: Berlin Agreement, FDA/Pain Blueprint,NDs/Historic CMS, EBM/Acu Coverage, Exiting Silos, IHM Coverage, plus ... May 14, 2017Integrator #171: LAc/Allina ER, Consortium Update, UB Integrative Pain/FQHCs, Sustainable DC Residency, Kronenberg, plus ... May2, 2017Integrator Special: Omada Health's Duffy on Integrative Diabetes Covreage Lessons for Integrative PainIntegrator #170: Obamacare.Non-Discrimination, VA/Opioid Initiative, Chiro Leadership/Non-Pharma, Acupuncture, ND Oncology Residency, Awards, plus ... April 9, 2017February 2018
Integrator #168: IHM/Race & Inequities, Reasons for Center Closures, Employers/IHM Sweet Spot, Prov-Swedish/Volume-Value, plus ... February 28, 2017Integrator Alert; Respond by February 20, 2017 on Joint Commission Pain StandardIntegrator Special: Mt. Sinai Merger Shuts Down Integrative Medicine "Crown Jewel"Integrator #167: Monti/Jefferson IHI Institute, Chiros/National Press Club, Ping Ho/Arts Healing Conference, Crinnion/NAM Allergies Report, plus ... February 12, 2017Integrator #166: Cleveland Clinic Model, Chesney/Research Priorities, Crinnion/Top Toxins, ABLM/Certification, Penny George changes, plus ... January 29, 2017Integrator Special: Big Changes at the Penny George Institute/Allina, Nation's Leading Integrative Health ModelIntegrator #165: Trump-Cleveland Clinic/Vaccinations, Chiros Opioids/Therapeutic Order, Dr. Rogers' Prize, plus ... January 15, 2017Integrator #164: Practitioners Orgs/FDA-NDI, NCH-Ullman.FDA-FTC, ASH/Acu Benefits, NDs/CDC Immunizations, Top 10 .. January 1, 2017December 2016
Coming of the Light: 2016 Integrator Top 10 for Policy and Action in Integrative Health and Medicine Integrator Special: AMA, Other Leading Medical Organizations Urge Insurance Coverage for Non-Pharma/Integrative PainIntegrator #163: OCIM/Oregon Opioids, JAMA 's Lundberg/Acupuncture, CHI/Infographic, NCCAOM-ACIH/Credentialing, plus - December 11, 2016Integrator #162: AIHM/Big Tent, ABC/Kratom, Penn/NDs, plus, November 27, 2016Integrator Special: Free E-Book "Rise" with 125 Milestones and 5 Eras for the History of Integrative Health and MedicineOctober 2016
June 2016
All prior posts in the Archive in the right column. Meantime, you can also find most of my recent posts through the links above, or here:
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