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- Britain simultaneously licenses alternative medicine and outlaws it
- Healing minds and bodies at Chicago alternative medicine conference
- ACC treatment costs skyrocket
- The Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council’s claims to …
Britain simultaneously licenses alternative medicine and outlaws it
Economist UK
Scientists and medics are uneasy too. Unlike the bodies that oversee doctors and nurses the CNHC takes no interest in whether its practitioners’ efforts actually work. This worries Edzard Ernst a homeopath who claims to be the world’s only professor of alternative medicine. He fears that a state register of therapists will be taken as official endorsement of their therapies.
Healing minds and bodies at Chicago alternative medicine conference
Medill Reports IL
Aaron Michelfelder a family medicine physician at University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine ran the session on acupuncture and was one of 20 speakers at the Integrate Chicago Conference 2009 on Saturday that included 12 breakout sessions a plenary and a keynote address. Conference participants were provided with a thorough introduction to different forms of alternative medicine from the medical perspective. Throughout the conference speakers promoted awareness and learning of alternative medicines to 145 medical students practitioners nurses and community members stressing that many patients are now seeking these therapies because they can be very effective. ?You?re integrating the mind and the spirit into the care of the body and the whole human being? explained Michelfelder who is a certified medical acupuncturist. He said that although the mechanisms of some of the therapies are unknown he has seen studies showing that they can be effective in certain cases.
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ACC treatment costs skyrocket
Stuff.co.nz New Zealand
The ACC spent $37 million on complementary and alternative medicine (Cam) in the 2007-2008 year up from $18. 4 million in 2003-2004. Smith said Cam expenditure had been growing significantly faster than other parts of accident compensation. There were "legitimate questions" about the effectiveness of some alternative treatments and the issue would be looked at as part of a broader ACC review he said. "The argument that people are voting with their feet is not enough for me to be satisfied as ACC Minister" he said.
The Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council’s claims to …
guardian.co.uk UK
Its key function is “to enhance public protection by setting standards” in an area that even most experts find bewildering: alternative medicine. All good news then? Why am I not jubilant?The history of the CNHC reads like that of a government body in a banana republic. Several years ago the.