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Elizabeth “Liza” Goldblatt, PhD, MPA/HA Honored with AIHM’s Change-Maker Award: 8 Leaders Offer Gratitude
December 3, 2019
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How about a research department at an acupuncture and Oriental medicine school? Let’s partner with mainstream academic institutions and go after NIH grants! Wouldn’t it ...
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Chiropractor Goertz: Chairperson at PCORI & Duke Spine Care Leader – Interview and Data on PCORI Integrative Grants
October 29, 2019
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Long-timers in the integrative trenches will know the paradoxical feelings of dismay at how messed up health care still is and at the same time ...
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Breaking the Class Barrier for Integrative Medicine: Innovative Roles for Group-Delivered Services, JACM Special Issue
August 5, 2019
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Cast a net for papers on “innovations in group-delivered services” and what do you get? Guest editor Maria Chao, DrPh, MPA summed up the nearly ...
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Part 2: A Conversation with National Pain Leader Sean Mackey, MD, PhD on Integrative Practices and the Controversial Oregon Opioid Tapering Decision
June 25, 2019
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Shortly after my recent post, “How the Backlash to Oregon’s Plan to Taper Opioids with Integrative Approaches Missed the Mark,” I received an e-note from ...
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Ultimate Guide: Using In-Person, Community Events to Gain More Patients
June 18, 2019
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Live presentations are the most powerful communication medium. Nothing touches people like an ‘in-person, living, breathing, experience’. Whether it’s sports, music or … yes, even ...
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How the Backlash to Oregon’s Plan to Taper Opioids with Integrative Approaches Missed the Mark
June 11, 2019
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When Oregon announced in 2016 that it would shift its back and neck care for Medicaid clients from opioids toward acupuncture, spinal manipulation, massage, yoga ...
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Commentary: One Third of Cancer Patients Use Complementary and Alternative Therapies, but Don’t Tell Their Physicians
May 15, 2019
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As a recovered cancer patient, who used integrative treatment options during my care and do so today for recovery, I wasn’t surprised by a recent ...
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The Rise of Integrative Health and Medicine — Milestones Continued: 2016-2018, & Free Book Offer
April 30, 2019
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In late 2016, FON and XYMOGEN released a 92-page publication titled The Rise of Integrative Health and Medicine—The Milestones: 1963 – Present. The book is ...
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One Third of Cancer Patients Use Complementary Medicine, But Many Don’t Tell Their Doctors
April 22, 2019
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With a cancer diagnosis, many people begin to seek complimentary forms of medicine to go with conventional treatments. A new study shows that one-third of ...
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Holistic Approach to Pain May help Prevent Drug Deaths in Vulnerable Populations
April 8, 2019
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As integrative practitioners have been saying, a holistic approach to pain is the answer to the opioid crisis, especially for low-income and at-risk patients. A ...
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