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Issues #116-#118 Nov 2013-Jan 2014 |
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Written by John Weeks
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The Integrator Blog - Issues #116-#118
January 4, 2014
Policy
-Chiropractors
(and other licensed disciplines) make gains under Federal Employee Health
Benefits via BCBS on Section 2706 "Non-Discrimination in Health Care"
-Jud Richland, MPH on the impact on the
naturopathic medical profession of the BCBS FEHB decision
-The Integrator Top 10 for Policy and Action in Integrative Health and
Medicine for 2013
-Is PCORI meeting its "CAM"
mandate? Only one integrative health and medicine grant in recent funding
announcements
Payment
-Glenn
Sabin on the status of third party payment for group services
Research
-When a Whole Practice Model is the Intervention: the leading edge
Dodds/Herman research design at the U Arizona Center for Integrative Health
-Ryan Bradley, ND, MPH challenges NCCAM's dismissal of dietary supplements for
people with diabetes
-A question of self esteem? Report finds just 4% of CAM studies in 2012
used "mixed methods" models
-Institute for Integrative Health receives $1-million to explore nature's
effect on wounded warriors
Clinical Practices
-Janet
Kahn, PhD: regarding massage therapists and the primary care workforce
-Integrative
pain competencies group at UC Davis sponsors Maui conference
-From Google Alerts: Integrative
Medicine in Health Systems and Around the World - December 2013
Academics
-New York Chiropractic College announces participation in two of five of the
historic VA chiropractic residencies
-Chiropractic accrediting agency receives federal approval for 3 years, despite
battle
Organizations
and Professions
-Update: collaborative gathering of major massage organizations
-Update: massive Foundations of
Naturopathic Medicine project rounds bend toward 2014 completion
-Data on A4M the evolution of
"anti-aging medicine"
Miscellaneous
-Public Radio's The Search for Wellbeing focuses on integrative health and
medicine contributions
-Update on the remarkable work at
UTS-Austrialian Research Center in Complementary and Integrative Medicine
People
-Integrative psychiatrist Robert
Koffman, MD granted U.S. Special Operations Command Patriot Award
-Leena Guptha, DO the new board chair
for massage certification organization
-In Memoriam: Society for Integrative Oncology backer Helen Moss
-In Memoriam: integrative health consumer activist
Charles B. Maclean, PhD
December 31, 2013
Since 2006, on or about each winter Solstice I have saluted the coming of the light with publication of he Integrator Top 10 for the previous year. Since 2011, these
have also been published via the Huffington Post. Links to past blogs are here
and at the bottom of this posting. Together these chronicle eight years
of policy and action in this popular movement. The 2013 iteration begins
with the battle over civilizing US health care through "non
discrimination" and ends with a salute to the end of year emergence of
something operating under the working title of "The Academy." Between
these, research surprises, some sterling appointments by individuals,
advances of select professions, and some ways that individuals
associated with this movements are shaping the values, practices and
disciplines associated with integrative health and medicine. This Top
10 first published here at the Huffington Post.
December 29, 2013
This typically monthly Integrator feature reflects a quick capture of
highlights from the multitude for links that flow in daily via Google
Alerts for "integrative medicine," "complementary and alternative
medicine" and "alternative medicine." While my focus is on integrative
medicine in health systems (and related media), the later search term
nets developments from
around the world that I began to share for November 2013. Here are 8 selections for from the integrative medicine (plus related media) and 9 international for December 2013. More
December 26, 2013
On November 15, 2013, the NIH NCCAM
issued a Clinical
Digest on Type 2 Diabetes and Dietary Supplements. The conclusions
are a
one-two knock-out punch against the practices of virtually all
integrative practitioners whether these are medical doctors,
naturopathic doctors, integrative nurses or any others taking a whole
person, natural health and medicine approach. First, the digest
concluded: "Overall, there is not enough scientific evidence
to show that any dietary supplement can help manage or prevent type 2
diabetes." Then: "There is no strong evidence that any herbal
supplement can help to control diabetes or its complications." In
this invited column, integrative physician Ryan Bradley, ND, MPH, a
leading national authority on whole person research on people with
diabetes, challenges the NCCAM position.
December 15, 2013
Policy
-WHO
publishes Traditional Medicine Strategy for 2014-2023
-IHPC adds voice to chorus of
coalitions opposing HR 2817 effort to maintain discrimination in health care
-Taylor Walsh on Health Affairs-AAMC
Briefing: Continued non-inclusion of licensed integrative health and medicine
in the workforce
-Oregon chiropractors take non-discrimination fight (Section 2706) to Governor
Kitzhaber
-Washington States naturopathic doctors
begin optional role as Medicaid providers
Research
-NCCAM-funded
study on EDTA chelation therapy shows compelling value for people with diabetes
-Clinic
led by Dan Labriola, ND receives $560,000 Takeda grant to test naturopathic
protocol for limiting adverse effects of firm's Velcade
Academic
Medicine
-Entrepreneurial Maryland
University of Integrative Health announces "philosophy in action" certificate
plus a deal with the Institute for Integrative Nutrition
Organizations
-Beth Sommers: Report on Alternative
and Complementary Health Practices content at the APHA 2013
-American
Botanical Council blasts USA Today
and BMC Medicine for falsehoods
on the herb industry
-Institute for Alternative Futures, a
key player in the integrative health and medicine movement, declares a new
vision statement
Philanthropy
-Column honors Bravewell Collaborative at the time of their announced
"sun-setting," with an appearance by Hillary Clinton
-Robert Wood Johnson funds Kaptchuk's
placebo work at Harvard
Miscellaneous
-Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine enters 20th year with huge increase in reach
-Smithsonian Galleries, yoga group and
GWU integrative medicine co-sponsor Medical Yoga Symposium
People
-Sandi Amoils, MD the president-elect
of the American Medical Acupuncture Association
-Integrative pain pioneer Heather Tick,
MD' Holistic Pain Relief
published
-Heather Greenlee, ND, PhD, first
naturopathic president of the Society for Integrative Oncology
December 15, 2013
Apologies to regular Integrator readers
of this typically monthly report. Other things have taken precedence,
apparently. Yet I have missed the ritual of looking into what Google
throws our way. I plan to continue going forward, with some changes. My
alerts are for "integrative medicine," "complementary and alternative
medicine" and "alternative medicine." The later nets developments from
around the world, an interest stimulated by my involvement with the
W.H.O. on the strategic plan. I will begin to share some of this with
this issue, my first in four months. I'll start at Nov 30 and work backwards for that month. Here are 14 mentions from the integrative medicine (plus related media) and 8 international.
December 7, 2013
Numerous whole person, integrative
medicine and health professions view
themselves as primary care. Millions of human beings turn to these
practitioners as their primary providers of care when some things is
disturbing them. Clearly. Yet in a series of organized
activities in November 2013 from Health Affairs and the
American Association of Medical Colleges recently devoted themselves to
the topic, these disciplines were essentially absent from the
discussion. Integrator columnist and integrative medicine and health
consultant Taylor Walsh attending the Washington, D.C. briefing on the topic from the two entities. This is his report.
November 30, 2013
That alternative medicine is a consumer movement is well known.
Less known or appreciated is how a powerful group of mainly female consumers - the Bravewell Collaborative -- shaped
the movement to implant these alternatives into conventional treatment.
These consumers partnered with medical doctors to promote the movement
in academic medicine and health systems called "integrative medicine."
This blog traces their strategic work at the time of their announced
departure from the scene. Their hand-prints are all over integrative medicine's transformational work in the ensuing 14 years. This column was first published at the Huffington Post as
Honoring How Powerful Consumers Known as Bravewell Implanted Integrative Medicine in the System.
To engage the dialogue, comment, re-post, please go to Huffington Post piece.
November 18, 2013
Integrative Medicine, Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Health Round-up #73: November 2013
Policy
-President's Planning Budget for VHA focuses on "Whole Health" for
2016-2021
-Side-note: Veteran's clinician in Washington state seeks to connect with others working to advance integrative programs in the VHA
-Coalition for Patients Rights joins chorus of practitioner organizations against maintaining discrimination in health care
-Following Washington GMO vote, Herbal Products Association calls for federal standard on voluntary disclosure
-Herbalgram looks at Obamacare's impact on those with Health Savings Accounts
-Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth issues report on naturopathic doctors as primary care providers
Insurance & Payment
-Aetna CEO Bertolini goes to bat for yoga, acupuncture, naturopathic doctors, yoga and other integrative practices
-Chiropractic policy leader Gerry Clum, DC lays out perspectives on chiropractic payment under the Affordable Care Act
-Major Hawaii insurer opens to naturopathic doctors and other licensed "CAM" practitioners
Hospitals and Health Systems
-Herb organization enters into Children's Hospital of Philadelphia dispute over banning supplements
Organizations
-ABIHM to morph into international, multidisciplinary certification and political advocacy organization
-Global Spa and Wellness Summit keynoted by the Dalai Lama with Kenneth Pelletier moderating
-International Association of Yoga Therapists, American Botanical Council and Pacific Symposium hit 25 year marks
-Canadian Massage Therapy Research Fund invites submissions for $40,000 in grant awards
Academic Medicine
-University of Toronto integrative medicine program accepted into Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine
-Study reports barriers to incorporation of CAM into family medicine residencies
-Accreditation group for homeopathy opens comment period for doctoral program standards
-Midwifery Education Accreditation Council opens new website
People
Nurse-researcher Mary Jo Kreitzer honored with Consortium's Bravewell Distinguished Service Award More
November 11, 2013
[This column was originally published here at Integrative Practitioner Online.] The documentary Escape Fire: The
Fight to Rescue American Healthcare debuted on CNN in March of 2013 to
great fanfare from the integrative health and medicine community. Here, finally, in this Sundance Films-backed project was a
documentary with significant mainstream penetration that talked our talk. Integrative medicine icons
Andy Weil, Dean Ornish and Wayne Jonas took the camera to articulate the
transformation in our conversation about health. They were relied upon for
emerging strategies. But with nearly our entire economy continuously at war with those
who would create a system of health, we need a sequel that is something
more like this: Escape Fire: A War Strategy to Give Health a Chance.
October 14, 2013
Policy
-U.S. Senate offers powerful, supportive statements on naturopathic medicine in declaration of "Naturopathic Medicine Week"
-State of Oregon Health Authority creates "Integrative Medical Advisory Group"
-The Physicians Foundation reports (positively) on MD-medicine's scope campaigns against other disciplines
Charting the Mainstream
-Study puts annual deaths from regular medicine at 210,000-440,000 - the nation's 3rd largest killer
Organizations
-National, multidisciplinary certification group for health coaches gains not-for-profit status
-Boston Medical Center group receives $1.6-million PCORI grant to explore group-delivered integrative medical services
-National Center for Homeopathy "re-booting" under new executive director
Natural Products
-Council for Responsible Nutrition report estimates billions saved via appropriate use of dietary supplements
-Israelson's UNPA and Bland's PLM link for exploration of dietary supplement-personalized medicine opportunities
Professions
-AAAOM declares ambitious plan for 5 pieces of federal legislation
-American Chiropractic Association House of Delegates focuses on guidelines, evidence
-Naturopathic doctors face regulatory challenges over prescription rights in Vermont, Alaska
-American Holistic Nurses plans cruise to explore the "evolution of integrative health and holistic nursing"
Perspectives
-Calling the Question: Is
battle over non-discrimination in health care (Section 2706) rightfully
spoken in the same breath as battles for people of color and women?
-Update from Dana Ullman: Indian Institute of Technology
delivers compelling evidence for homeopathy/nanomedicine
Awards
-Integrative pediatrician Sunita Vorha, MD awarded 2013 $250,000 Dr. Rogers' Prize
-Integrative researcher-clinician Dugald Seely, ND chosen one of Ottawa's Top 25 People
People
-Horace Elliott to step down after 27 years with the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners
-Disease Proof: new book from Yale integrative and preventive medicine leader David Katz, MD, MPH
-American Chiropractic Association selects James Potter as new CEO More
October 4, 2013
The Congressional action was symbolic. Detractors might call it a classic political act of tossing them a bone. After all, what actual value is there in the U.S. Senate declaration of October 7-13, 2013 as "Naturopathic Medicine Week"? Yet
until this month no Congressional act directly and explicitly
acknowledged the existence of the naturopathic medical profession. Now here comes U.S. Senate Resolution 221,
passed September 10, 2013, declaring that naturopathic medicine is
"safe, effective and affordable health care." Though the field is
regulated in just 16 jurisdictions, S.R 221 declares that "naturopathic
physicians can help address the shortage of primary care providers."
U.S. citizens are encouraged "to learn about the role of naturopathic
physicians in preventing chronic and debilitating conditions." More This column was first published here at Integrative Practitoner Online.
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