August 20, 2006 mailing - Issue #10August 20, 2006
The
idea of establishing a federal CAM-IM office has been kicked around
policy circles in complementary, alternative and integrative medicine
communities at least since the report of the White House Commission on CAM Policy
(2002). This article is a bit of voters guide, with some of the pro and
con. Participate! The outcomes are more fun the more of you who do.
August 19, 2006
Two-thirds of participants in an Integrator
Poll "strongly agree" that we need to prioritize funding of "whole
practice" research over reductive, single agent trials. Proponent Carlo Calabrese, ND, MPH, a member of the NIH NCCAM national advisory council, suggests NCCAM needs a focused project ...
August 18, 2006
Peter Amato's integral health clinic, founded in 1997, has become a piece of a multi-faceted Inner Harmony Group consciousness transforming effort that includes recovery programs, a CDC-funded integrated oncology program, a US DoE grant
to better educational environments through mindfulness training, and
more. Meantime, the clinic, redesigned, is operating in the black ...
August 18, 2006
An "integral education" pilot program developed by the Inner Harmony Group and funded by the US Department of Education, for
a Scranton, Pennsylvania public elementrary school, finds that teachers
observe profound, positive changes in student learning and behavior
through mindfulness techniques. Interestingly, there appears to be a
kind of healing crisis along the way ...
August 16, 2006
To facilitate finding articles of most relevance to your work and interest, all Integrator
posting to date are organized according to subject matter: federal
policy, health systems/integrative clinics, people, AMA Scope of
Practice campaign, insurance/employers/payers, research and etc. ...
August 15, 2006
Two fascinating studies of a mind-body curriculum piloted and Georgetown and a collaborative project involving U Minnesota and Northwestern University of Health Sciences point the way toward the betterment of medical education. The AMA's edits on the recent Student Section Resolution #306 suggest we shouldn't hold our breath ...
August 15, 2006
Acupuncture without Borders still working New Orleans, HerbDay grows, musical chairs in IM programs as Donald Abrams, MD takes Sylver Quevedo's role at UCSF-Osher and Quevedo moves to Duke, Bill Benda, MD, makes a little history as the first MD on the AANP board, Laura Patton, MD, leaves Group Health and more ...
August 8, 2006
The full scope of the AMA's Scope of Practice Partnership campaign continues to unfold. Two additional Resolutions target the rapidly expanding Doctor of Nursing Practice degrees, and new licensing for naturopathic physicians. Given the apparent lack of significant evidence of harm motivating the AMA's action, and the predominantly female
make-up of the two targeted disciplines, is what is really going on
here a war of the sexes? Is the effort against an emerging healthcare matriarchy crowned by nurse-ND leadership? Oh, there are also turf issues of the economic sort ...
August 6, 2006 mailing - Issue #9August 6, 2006
Third generation organic farmer Jon Tester is favorably
disposed toward support of CAM-IM-related federal policy due to
professional experience, family experience, and abiding interest in
promoting policies which are preventively-focused and respect patient
choice. He's currently running ahead of incumbent Conrad Burns ...
August 4, 2006
Sat Bir Khalsa, PhD, the moderator of the research panel on Yoga therapy at the North American Research Conference on Complementary and Integrative Medicine,
speaks out of Yoga's "hygiene for the mind" role in US health care and
and the strategic role of research in the process. This article is part
of the Integrator series on the Future of Yoga sponsored by the International Association for Yoga Therapists.
August 2, 2006
CAM
educators, a national CAM-IM policy group, organizations representing
naturopathic physicians and others of AOM practitioners have all
endorsed the work of the Coalition for Patient Rights to oppose the AMA's Scope of Practice Partnership campaign. But will these CAM-IM organizations be welcome into the Coalition?
August 1, 2006
Due
to legislation passed in Washington State in 1995, that state has
become an "insurance laboratory" for looking at the utilization and
cost of covered CAM services. This peer-reviewed report from the American Journal of Managed Care 2002 should quiet insurers who resist inclusion based on fears of huge cost escalation.
July 26, 2006
Led by their Student Section, the AMA House of Delegates adopted Resolution #306 which urges education on risks and efficacy of CAM, and for the first time, the potential benefits ...
July 24, 2006
Two medical doctors with a history of antagonism regarding
complementary, alternative and integrative medicine call for an
outside review of NIH NCCAM. The Center's leadership ably defends their actions ...
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New Integrator Poll: Establish a Federal Complementary/Integrative Health Care Office?
AMA Targets Nursing Doctorate and ND Licensing: Old Boys vs. the Emerging Medical Matriarchy?
Jon Tester, Organic Farmer, Friend of Natural Health Care, Leads in Montana US Senate Race
CAM-IM Responses to the AMA Scope Campaign; Coalition Plans Next Steps
