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- Regulate alternative medicine – HPC
- Is Alternative Medicine the New Mainstream?
- Hospitals, spas offer ‘magical’ medical tour
- Medicinal challenge
- 5th Nat’l Traditional and Alternative Health Care Convention set …
Regulate alternative medicine – HPC
The Press Association
The professions are not currently subject to statutory regulation but the HPC formally recommended a system was introduced to make it easier to ensure people were “meeting standards”. HPC chief executive Marc Seale said: “The HPC has made a recommendation to the Secretary of State for Health advocating the regulation of acupuncturists, medical herbalists and traditional Chinese medicine practitioners. “The HPC was set up in order to protect the public and we strongly believe that statutory regulation can more effectively assure that practitioners are meeting standards and are fit to practise. “A Department of Health steering group report in June said regulation was “in the public interest”.
Is Alternative Medicine the New Mainstream?
HealthNews, CA
The probability of users visiting an alternative medicine practitioner increased from 36. 3%, which totaled an estimated cost of over $21 billion, with at least $12 billion out-of-pocket, that is, paid by the patients themselves and not insurance companies. This increase was attributed to more people seeking complementary care, and not to more visits per patient. More than one-third of hospitals now offer one or more complementary therapies, according to a survey by the American Hospital Association completed last September.
Hospitals, spas offer ‘magical’ medical tour
Manila Times, Philippines
Even the architecture is highly specialized. Spa therapy medical-massage experts claim help in stress management, circulation improvement, regulate metabolism, relieve muscle pains, and release natural endorphins and do a lot of other helpful things. The Alternative Medicine Act of 1997 mentions massage, aromatherapy, organic food, nutraceuticals, reflexology, iridology and naturopathy, including acupuncture and hydrotherapy, as practices that fall under the category of alternative medicine. A medical spa today includes a specialist physician. “It is conventional medical care in a spa setting,” Lopingco said. Tan founded the first medical spa in Delos Santos Medical Center in 2006. It caters to the treatment of hypertension, cancer, diabetes and conducts pre-natal and post-natal exercises to pregnant mothers.
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Medicinal challenge
The Nation Newspaper, Barbados
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MORE AND MORE Barbadians are turning to alternative medicine for better health, but they have a big challenge – a lack of insurance coverage that would help them recoup some of the costs. Some alternative medicine clients have experienced the disappointment of having their “medical claims” rejected by insurance companies. Alternative medicine is not fully recognised by the Ministry of Health and there is no organisation governing the practices of its practitioners, similar to how conventional medical practitioners are administered. A senior official at the Ministry of Health confirmed that reflexology, chiropody and acupuncture were recognised by the ministry, but a variety of other services offered under the wide cover of “alternative medicine” were not. “It is tricky because the people practising these kinds of therapy are not really doctors, although their treatments might work.
5th Nat’l Traditional and Alternative Health Care Convention set …
Philippine Information Agency, Philippines
” The convention will highlight, among others, the exhibit of alternative and traditional health care products and will feature traditional and alternative methods of health care. Juan Flavier who sponsored the bill which became the Republic Act 8423 (R. 8423) otherwise known as the Traditional and Alternative Medicine Act (TAMA) of 1997, Health Secretary Francisco Duque,III, Usec Jade F. Cory Quirino and Dr.