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Issues #110- #112 - April to June 2013 |
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Written by John Weeks
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Issues #110- #112 - April to June 2013
June 8, 2013
Policy
-Commentary on non-discrimination in health care (Section 2706) urges exploration of "big honking lawsuit"
-Congressional supporters of licensed midwives and naturopathic doctors introduce legislation
-Interview with chiropractic lobbyist John Falardeau provides look behind the curtain
Integrative Medicine
-American Board of
Integrative Medicine opens application process for new medical
specialty, affirms interprofessional definition
-Gaudet honors naturopathic physicians as pioneers of "integrative medicine," explains the need for integrative MDs in system
change
-From Google Alerts: links to integrative medicine in health systems and communities for June 2013
Academic Medicine and Health
-Ben Kligler, MD, MPH on recent accomplishments of the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine
-Texas Tech becomes 53rd academic health center to join the integrative medicine consortium
-"Integrative Medicine" in the names of acupuncture and Oriental medicine academic institutions
Organizations
-Joint Commission to create expert panel to further develop non-pharmacological pain standards
-"Consensus" Core Competencies for Pain Management published; acupuncture the only non-conventional field invited into the room
-Samueli Institute shares a decade of research on healing and complementary and integrative approaches
-New AHA study puts hospital CAM inclusion data point 50% lower than 2010 survey
Professions
-American Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (AAAOM) calls
for comments on its position statement on "dry needling"
-Naturopathic doctors celebrate breakthrough with state regulation in Colorado
-U.S. MERA conference brings nurse-midwives and certified professional midwives closer to a single voice
-American Chiropractic Association boasts "cultural authority" with a Vermont Blues plan
Economics & Business
-Two resources published on economic evaluation of complementary and integrative medicine
-Jill's List merges with MindBody, Jill Shah to remain with combined firm
-American Specialty Health subsidiary gains full accreditation of disease management program
People
-Health Forum's Kathryn Johnson joins Samueli Institute board
-Ron Glick, MD takes reins from James Lake, MD at International Network of Integrative Mental Health
-Anthony Hamm, DC re-elected co-chair
of key AMA review board
June 5, 2013
(This column was first published here at the Integrative Practitioner site.) The medical principle to "above all, do no harm" seems a
no-brainer. It's been there since Hippocrates. What
could be a more obvious guide for all participants in the provision of health
care? Yet we live in a world in which virtually every
pharmaceutical drug arrives attached to small print of multiple potential
adverse effects. We know since the
publication of To Err
is Human that over 100,000 people a year are killed from the regular
practice of medicine. The principles is advanced across the integrative health fields, from massage to the new board certification in integrative medicine. Is this a lever for change. More
June 3, 2013
This column was first published here at Huffington Post. Please click here, "like" it if you do, comment and send to your friends via Facebook or Twitter.
Major
movements in the US often have
lawsuits attached. The non-discrimination in healthcare law in the
Affordable Care Act will come into effect on January 1, 2014. It
has been compared by former Washington State Insurance Commissioner
Deborah Senn to
the "Every Category of Provider" law in Washington. That law created the
most open and affirming environment for public access to licensed
integrative health practice of acupuncturists, chiropractic doctors,
naturopathic doctors, massage therapists and others. Yet those close to
that scene will know that what anchored citizen rights was a brutal
series of lawsuit that Senn finally won in the Ninth Circuit of Court of
Appeals. Close observers of 2706 will know that the writing on the wall,
from state to state, is that the Congressional intent is proving
virtually meaningless in most planning. Doors are rarely opening. This
column suggests that this non-discrimination may
require a major social movement legal case like Roe v. Wade or Brown v.
the Board of Education. There are reasons for the courts, the third
branch of government. This increasingly appears to be one of them. More here at Huffington Post or here on the Integrator site.
May 13, 2013
This
monthly report includes 20 segments from Google Alerts on integrative medicine
developments in health systems plus a half-dozen from the community for May 7,
2013-May 31, 2013. These came via requests for "integrative
medicine," "integrative oncology" and "complementary and alternative
medicine." Major integrative center openings in Cincinnati, Ohio and
Gaithersberg, Maryland. More
May 19, 2013
Policy
-US Senator Saunders introduces
bill to expand complementary and alternative medicine services in the military
-Harkin battles the Obama
administration to protect prevention and public health funds
-Safe Chemicals Act of 2013
introduced by Lautenberg, Gillibrand with 27 co-sponsors: first overhaul
-European Union group CAMbrella publishes final report on legal status and
regulation of CAM in Europe
Health
Creation
-Institute of Medicine
web-accessible workshop includes focus on health and well-being in
"transdisciplinary professionalism"
-Wisconsin's integrative medicine
leader David Rakel, MD collaborates to produce free ibook called "Project
Health"
Research
-Positive whole person
naturopathic cardiovascular risk study provokes editorial in Canadian Medical Association Journal
-JAMA posting on Low Back Pain suggests chiropractic, acupuncture
-May 2014 International Research
Congress on Integrative Medicine and Health Announces Keynoters
-European Journal of Integrative Medicine publishes special journal on public health
Integrative Care
-From Google Alerts: Links to
Integrative Medicine in Health Systems and Communities: May 2013
-Integrative Medicine for the
Underserved announces July 2013 3rd annual conference
Academics
-Interprofessional Education
Collaborative (IPEC) expands to include broader allied health and CAM groups as
"supporting organizations"
-Update from the Medical Library Association has CAM
Special Interest Group
-New program in integrative
health characterized as preparing professionals for "the Great
Hand-Over"
Natural
Products
-National College of Natural
Medicine adopts natural products quality program promoted by Emerson Ecologics
-Integrator joins large coalition supporting ABC-AHP-NCNPR
Botanical Adulterants Program
Organizations &
Professions
-Controversy erupts when TED
drops "consciousness issues" from site
-American Association of Acupuncture
and Oriental Medicine names Denise Graham as executive director, Beth Clay as
lobbyist
-Massage Therapy Foundation names
Gini Ohlson as first executive director
Media
-ABC's Blumenthal challenges New
York Times on Gingko's cancer effects in lab animals
-Breakthroughs with Martin Sheen to focus on alternative therapies
People
-Haramati to "educate the
educators" as leader of new Georgetown Center for Innovation and
Leadership in Education
-Herbalist Cascade Anderson
(Geller) honored in her death
-David Mercier's A Beautiful
Medicine selected as a Grand Prize Winner in the 2013 Nautilus Book Awards More
May 12, 2013
[This column was first posted here at Huffington Post.
Go there to like, forward via Facebook, or comment.] "Can naturopaths
deliver complementary preventive medicine?" Thus ran the headline in a
recent editorial a in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. The editorial was written in reference to the publication in the same
edition of a randomized clinical trial led by Dugald Seely, N.D entitled "Naturopathic medicine for the prevention of cardiovascular
disease: a randomized controlled trial." They found that individualized, whole person-oriented
naturopathic care produced reduced cardiovascular risk for a group of
Canadian postal workers. The study, and the editorial, illuminate both the benefits and
challenges in research on any trial of a kind of care that lives up to
either naturopathic medicine principles or integrative medicine principles.
It also points the way to the kind of research we need to create cost
savings through reformed care delivery. More
May 6, 2013
This
monthly report includes 24vsegments from Google Alerts on integrative medicine
developments in health systems plus a half-dozen from the community for April 1,
2013-May 6, 2013. These came via requests for "integrative medicine," "integrative oncology" and "complementary and alternative medicine." More
April 7, 2013
At the Integrative Healthcare Symposium in March 2013, I interviewed 8 clinicians and asked them to step out of their clinical mindsets and talk policy. Picture the roughly 1000 clinicians from diverse disciplines gathered at the conference. What do you see as the most significant policy action the group can engage to advance integrative health and medicine in the U.S. Their responses were published as Integrative Medicine Clinicians on Policy Priorities: Bland, Gahles, Hui, Kligler, Luck, Hudson, Gorman, and Jones. Bill Manahan, MD, the Minnesota-based family physician, educator and long-time leader in holistic medicine responded to a call for additional perspectives. Here are his additions to the dialogue. More
April 7, 2013
Policy
-PCORI appoints leaders from the integrative health community
-Consumer disobedience: Hyman urges "Eat-in" to change health and food practices in America
-Integrative Healthcare Policy Consortium (IHPC) offers first in series of open webinars on the campaign for nondiscrimination
Clinical
-From Google Alerts: links to integrative medicine in health systems and communities: April 2013
-Deadline approaches for submissions to first big clinical conference from academic integrative medicine group
-FON Therapeutics' Glenn Sabin offers marketing booklet for integrative centers
Academics
-University of Arizona Center considers integrative health academic program for allied health
-Temple University becomes 52nd academic health center in integrative medicine consortium
-Maryland University of Integrative Health (MUIH) to offer online courses, degrees
-Update: Kansas University Integrative Medicine adds pediatric components
-Bastyr University partners in new line of teas with Choice Organic Teas
-Family physicians grant CMEs for MDs who watch Escape Fire; incorporating integrative medicine is among learning objectives
Research
-Palmer Center for Chiropractic Research: 2012 Report
Professions
-Eligibility requirements, definition and principles for MD/DO Board Certification in Integrative Medicine
-Acupuncture accreditation body approved first professional doctorate standards
-Chiropractic association focuses on integration in new 10 year vision statement
Organizations
-American Pain Foundation offers NIH/NCCAM-backed pre-conference session on complementary treatments
-American College for the Advancement of Medicine (ACAM) votes to accept naturopathic physicians as full voting members
-Institute for Functional Medicine conference to focus on "the energy that drives our biologic activity"
People
-Lou Sportelli, DC honored by chiropractic profession as Humanitaran of the Year
-Jan Bruce, former Integrative Medicine Communications and Body & Soul now with meQuilibrium More
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