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Written by John Weeks
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Sunday, 14 December 2008 |
March 7, 2010
McCain-Dorgan bill stirs battle
over supplement regulation McCain backs off ... Action urged to support
"licensed integrative practitioners" in federal legislation ... Senator
Mikulski salutes Integrative Healthcare Symposium attendees ... Bill
George pushes reform at personal and state levels .. Brent Bauer, MD
reports on Mayo's growing integrative medicine initiative ... True North patient survey featured in American
College of Physicians' publication ... Naparstek's Health Journeys CD
sent by DoD to help soldiers in war zone ... Acupuncture accreditation agency moves ahead
with "first professional doctorate" ... A
first: Chiropractic faculty members credentialed to teach in VA
facilities via NYCC relationships ... Washington state legislature
announces annual Bastyr Day ... Oregon naturopathic doctors included in
loan-forgiveness program for service to the underserved and in rural
areas ... Chiropractors explore role in
public health ... NJ chiropractors add homeopathy, nutrition to
practice; Gahles comments ... Hawai'i medical association seek to strip
scope additions of state's naturopathic doctors ... AMI seeks expansion
of integrative Medicaid pilot into Arizona ... ABC blasts peer-reviewed
piece on drug-herb interactions ... Newsweek rips
anti-depressants as "Tic tacs" ... Stargrove and MedicineWorks release
electronic interactions guide ... Olympic athletes sponsored by
supplement lines
... Profootball chiropractic association in 4th conference ...
Integrative Healthcare Symposium up 40%, gains status as community
gathering ... Arizona Center's integrative mental health conference
sells
out ... Ann Fonda reports on the Annie Appleseed Project ... Pelletier
takes vice president role at American Specialty Health ... Miller-Read
takes over as AMTA president ... More
March 6, 2010
The "McCain Bill,"as it quickly became known, has stirred
up a furor in the integrative practice and natural products communities.
Practitioner, consumer and industry interests are peppering their lists
with alerts about a proposed bill which they argue will increase
regulatory burden, limit access to supplements and significantly
increase costs. US Senator John McCain used the Senator floor to take on
the arguments of his opponents. Major league sports are backing McCain.
The proposal is called the Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010. Here
are links to key viewpoints followed by a critical analysis from Integrator
columnist Michael Levin whose professional career spans executive
positions in big Pharma and the supplements industry. He offers a useful
regulatory strategy by focusing on the narrows of the production river.
(Note: At publication time word arrived that McCain was backing down.) More
February 23, 2010
The
strategic plan for NIH National Center
for Complementary and
Alternative Medicine showed steps toward
clarification at the February 5, 2010 meeting of the National Advisory
Council. This report from Integrator
columnist Taylor Walsh share's the agency's directions, plus a list of
the 5 new
appointees. The range of initiatives is wide, from reductive approaches
to products to engaging lifestyle-change initiatives and mind-body
interventions. Council member Janet Kahn, PhD reviewed Walsh's article
and offers additional perspectives on the direction. Kahn calls to the
practitioner community that is interested in "real world research" to
utilize NCCAM's existing health services research initiative. More
February 21, 2010
I
split my professional life between the Integrator
and related writing and the organization featured here, the
Academic Consortium for Complementary and Alternative Health Care
(ACCAHC). This multidisciplinary entity lives and breaths the
integration-related issues reported in the Integrator. This Quarterly
Report: announces planned June 26-28, 2011 conference; honors Lucy Gonda as ACCAHC's founding philanthropic partner; announces an initiative
with UCLA health policy leader Michael Goldstein, PhD on ACCAHC's
professions and the primary care need; links to a resource on all accreditation
standards of the ACCAHC educational programs relative to referral/collaboration and
prevention/wellness; and shares steps in the release of the Clinicians'
and Educators' Desk Reference on the Licensed Complementary and
Alternative Healthcare Professions. More
February 21, 2010
Frank Ervolino, ND, LAc
reviews issues on the "first professional doctorate" for the acupuncture
and Oriental medicine field ... Lou Sportelli, DC on how NCCAM needs
to research the way practitioners operate ... Roger Jahnke, OMD's
shares his letter to US Senator Barbara Boxer promoting wellness and
integrative practice ... Glenn Sabin of FON Therapeutics comments on
whole systems research in the IOM's report on the National Summit on
Integrative Medicine and the Health of the Public ... Late nominations
for Top 10
People from 2009: Harry Pruess, MD nominates Gretchen LeBeau; Emily
Kane, ND, LAc nominates the head of the Coalition for Patients Rights;
and the head of the Wapello, Iowa, County Medical Society indirectly
nominates chiropractor Charles Coram, DC. More
February 15, 2010
If you support integrative
practice, here are 6 specific reasons to write your members of Congress
now. Proposed legislation sits on the desks of members of Congress that,
if passed, includes integrative practitioners and integrative practices
in federal policy for the first time. While tucked into corners of
legislative packages, these advances would be huge. Included are
non-discrimination, workforce, medical homes, community health,
comparative effectiveness research, and health promotion. Here is
information, a draft letter, and how-to link to your members of
Congress. We speak of helping shift U.S. medicine. Now is an important
time to weigh in. More
February 11, 2010
A recently
published edited reference text on the licensed integrative practice
professions includes educator-leaders' perspectives on the top
challenges and opportunities for each of these fields for 2009-2012. The licensed fields represented are chiropractic
medicine, acupuncture and Oriental medicine, naturopathic medicine,
massage therapy and direct entry midwifery. Educator
and accreditation leader Jan Schwartz, MA, analyzed the responses of
the chapter author teams, each of which was selected by national
educational organizations for their respective fields. Schwartz' goal:
find common themes to shape a cross-disciplinary work agenda. Here is a look at the intersecting horizons of these professions, high and low, as forecast by these educator-authors. More
Issue #72 February 4, 2009
February 3, 2010
Allina Hospitals
initiative finds $2000 savings per patient stay with integrative care
... JAMA column from Ralph Snyderman, MD reports that Duke Prospective
Health created $2200 per employee per year in savings associated with
personalized, integrative approach ... NIH workshop to explore cost
effectiveness of dietary supplement interventions ... MD academics urge
NCCAM to support non-MD CAM investigators in 2011-2015 strategic plan
... "Licensed integrative practitioners" included in Senate reform
language on comparative effectiveness research ... U.S. Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality recognizes naturopathic doctors as
primary care .... US Senator Mikulski pitches "integrative health care"
as key health reform principle in constituent letter ... AMA News
reports trends in AMA campaign to restrict the scopes of NDs, DCs, AOM
practitioners, midwives and others ... AANP and ACA send letters to
members relative to the AMA campaign to restrict their practices ...
Widely reported survey led by UCLA's Michael Goldstein, PhD shows
strong support for CAM among 75% of medical school student respondents
... New York Chiropractic College offers online nutrition Masters
degree ... Mayo Clinic integrative medicine educates team about
aromatherapy, Qi Gong and other certificate programs via local
community college ... Tai Sophia gains state approval for 5 new
certificate programs to help create a wellness workforce ... Update on
massage educator not-for-profit start-up ... Acupuncturists Without
Borders and Natural Doctors International respond to Haiti disaster ...
Standard Process sales hit $100-million mark; a look at its corporate
citizenship ... Yale integrative medicine conference to feature NCCAM's
Briggs plus CAM-basher Novella ... Conference notes ... plus more
January 29, 2010
Responses of readers from the acupuncture and Oriental medicine
(AOM) profession challenged a statement in the most recent Integrator round-up. They argue that there is no "emerging consensus"
on the proposal of the Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and
Oriental Medicine (ACAOM) to establish a "first professional doctorate"
(FPD) for the profession. Here are responses and links to the heated
debate. Included
are statements from the Community Acupuncture Network (opposed) and the
American Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (in favor). CAN will formally take their protest to the US Department of
Education should ACAOM go forward. I follow with some altogether non-conclusive comments. More
January 28, 2010
This article continues an Integrator series on stakeholder perspectives on NCCAM's 2011-2015 strategic plan. Included are the positions of three significant organizations: the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine (CAHCIM) representing 44 medical schools,
Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) representing large dietary
supplement interests, and the American Massage Therapy Association
(AMTA), the largest 501c6 professional association for that field of
some 250,000 practitioners. These positions add to the set of 8
stakeholder responses previously published. One question posed: What
would a "balanced" NCCAM portfolio include? Also noted are two other
influential stakeholders: the NIH and the NCCAM's blogging detractors. More
January 26, 2010
An
additional significant place where integrative practitioners gained an
explicit foothold in Congressional action relative to health reform is
in the comparative effectiveness research (CER) language in SB 3590.
Gretchen DuBeau, executive director of the Alliance for Natural
Health-USA shared with the Integrator that her association
worked closely with US Senators Kent Conrad and Barbara Mikuski to
secure the inclusion. Interestingly, ANH-USA, despite its work, is
deeply concerned about the outcomes of the CER movement, and in fact
opposes the reform legislation. The relevant sections are printed here. More
January 20, 2010
As 2009 ended and 2010 dawned, some Top 10 lists for the 2000-2009 decade began to show up in newspapers and magazines. What a time this decade has been for integrative medicine
and integrative health care! Despite having written not one but two Top 10s for the year of 2009, I couldn't resist reflecting on the decade
that was. I developed this for a media outlet which is not inside the integrative practice
fields as a short history, in the form of a Top 10. I hope regular Integrator
readers will find this reflection of interest. As usual, I look forward
to any of your comments, corrections, or views about any oversights. More
January 12, 2010
The annual publication of an Integrator
Top 10 list always leaves room for reader submissions of their
recommendations. This year brought some excellent suggestions, for both
Top 10 Actions and Events and the first time, Top 10 People. From the responses, we have proved
that we are well integrated into popular culture: the People list
stimulated more responses. Here are the Integrator reader nominations from 2009. More
_________________________
In May 2008, the Integrator began publishing a "newsletter-inside-the-newsletter" to subscribers and
others as a mean of providing a quick scan of action related to
integrative practice. Three significant organizations in the field now
routinely send these out to their members, recognizing their value -
and reaching over 150,000! Assembling them all here will give anyone a
decent overview of what's what since we began publishing these in May
2008. Here's hoping these prove useful to you! It's fascinating to take
a quick scan, particularly recalling that when I began writing a
newsletter on the "CAM" field in 1997, the publisher asked me if there
was enough going on to fill 8 pages each month. Please join me in
thanking Integrator sponsors NCMIC Group, Alternative
Medicine Integration Group, Inner Harmony Group, Institute
for Health and Productivity Management and Integrative
Practitioner/Integrative Healthcare Symposium for making this service
possible. -- John Weeks, Publisher-Editor. More
For earlier articles:
Issues #69, #70 & #71 - Nov-Dec 2009
Issues #67 & #68 - Sept-Oct 2009
Issues #65-#66 - July-Aug 2009
Issues #63-#64 - May-June 2009
Issues #55-#56 - Nov-Dec 2008
Issues #47-#50 - July-August 2008
Issues #45 & -#46 - May-June 2008
Issues #43-#45 Mar-April 2008
Issues #41 & #42 - Feb 2008
Issues #39 & #40 - Dec-Jan '08
Issues #37 & #38 - Nov 2007
Issues #35 & #36 - Oct 2007
Issues #33 & #34 - Sept 2007
Issues #30-#32 - July-Aug 2007
Issues #28 & #29 - June 2007
Issues #26 and #27 - May 2007
Issue #25 - April 2007
Issues # 23 & #24 - March 2007
Issues #21 and #22 - Feb 2007
Issues #19 and & 20 - Jan 2007
Issues #17 and #18 - Dec 2006
Issues #15 and #16 - Nov 2006
Issues #13 and #14 - Oct 2006
Issues #11 and #12- Sept 2006
Issues #9 and #10 - Aug 2006
Issues #7 and #8 - July 2006
Issues #5 and #6 - June 2006
Issues #3 and #4 - May 2006
Issues #1 and #2 - Apr 2006
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