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Written by John Weeks
John Weeks
Feel free to sign-up on the right to be alerted to new developments in integrative health and medicine via Integrator newsletters such as those listed below. For articles from March 2006-March 2016, see the Archive on the right. For articles since, see below. For more on me, see my new site: johnweeks-integrator.com . I send 2 newsletters per month and no more than 2-4 additional Integrator Alerts or Integrator Specials per month to highlight individual topics or actions. Recent editions:
June 2020
Coming of the Light: The 2019 Integrator Top 10 for Policy and Action in Integrative Health and Medicine Integrator #235: American Nutrition Association Launched; Top 10 for 2019; Midwives/$2.5 Millon from Congress; Implementation Research; Creative Arts/UCLArts & Healing Conference; Berkley Bedell Dies; plus - December 29, 2019 Integrator #234: Google Drops AIHM & Pain Doc; London September 2020/Major Integrative Congress; Loan Debt by Profession; AANP Founder Sensenig Dies, plus ... November 24, 2019 Integrator #233: VA Growth/Gaudet Gone; Google Censorship/HPC Example; Schnyer-Citkovitz/In Integrator #232: Six Experts on Cleveland Clinic Functional Outcomes JAMA; Chiropractic/World Series; Chiropractor/Connor IHN; Katz/"Red Meat Papers"; SIO/Growth, plus ... November 10, 2019 Integrator #231: Cleveland Clinic Functional Outcomes/JAMA; Chiropractor Goertz/PCORI Chair; 4 Voices/Lifestyle Med "Tyranny of the RCT", Family Docs/Non-Pharma, Samueli/UCI plus ... October 27, 2019 Integrator #230: Greta Thunberg/Microbiome; More Google/Censorship; PCORI's Selby/Patient Centered Research; NCCIH/HEAL Awards; IPO/Credentials Resource, Cost of Waste, plus - October 13, 2019 Integrator #229: Lifestyle Medicine/Tyranny of the RCT; WHO/Trad Med Advances Globally; IHPC/CMS RFI; Kaplan/$250,000 Dr. Rogers Prize; ND John Finnell/VA Breakthrough, plus - September 29, 2019 Integrator #228: Google Strangles Integrative/Alternat Integrator #227: IM4US-Underserved/He Integrator #226: George's Strategy/$5-Million to Mayo; Naturo Therapeutic Order Tweak/Non-Pharma; Midwives $$/Bipartican Congressional Maternity Caucus; Florida Non-Pharma Mandate; SIO in NYC, plus August 11, 2019 Integrator #225: Poll/Disturbing Rift MDs-Patients on Self-Care; Group Service/JACM Special Issue; Jain-CHI/Science-Spi rit; ACIH/8 Orgs/Collaborate; plus ... July 28, 2019 Integrator #224: Harvard Integrative Med/Climate Change; Langevin-SAR/NIH Whole Systems Research; Lovell/Integrative Pain Convening; Sabin/Integative Onc Podcast, plus - July 7, 2019 Integrator #223: Acupuncturist/Oregon Opioid Tapering; WHO/TCM-ICD11; ASA-AANP/Lobbying; Prolotherapy/Interpr Integrator #222: Opioid Tapering/Stanford's Sean Mackey, MD; PAHO/Network & Resource; Down Under/Global Integrative Research Priorities; Integrative/Medicare for All; Weeks/Health Grooves Podcast, plus ... June 9, 2019 Integrator #221: Oregon Integrative Pain Model Slammed; CHI's Integrative CMH/Forced Shutdown; VA's Whole Health/NEJM; NDs/Federal Priorities, plus ... May 26, 2019 Integrator #220: Battling for Health/Game of Thrones; SIO/Samueli $500,000; EvoMed/Group Visits; IHM Representation/NAM Opioids; ... plus, May 12, 2019 Integrator #219: Global Govermental Actions Against Integrative; Research Action/Integrative Health Universities; ASA/Major Acu Lobby Day; ACIH/NAM Reports, plus ... April 21, 2019 Integrator #218: Portrait of 7 Integrative Health Universities; Group vs Individual Care/Early Cleveland Clinic FM Data; HHS Pain Action; Walter Crinnion Dies; plus - April 7, 2019 Integrator URGENT Action by April 1: Final Comments to HHS Pain Management Task Force Integrator #217: Andrew Weil/$20-Million to Center; Integrative Community/Whole Systems Research; AANP/FDA Compounding GoFundMe; Berwick the Martian/Determinants Integrator #216: Integrative Health & Single Payer/Expectations; Integrative Health/Berwick on a Decade of the Triple Aim; OncANP Guidelines/Current Oncology; Sabin/New IHM Milestones, plus - March 10, 2019 Integrator #215: JAMA Onc Letters Demolish CM article; Naturopathy Research/Whole Systems; New $20-Million Integrative Department; Evans & Harris/NIH NCCIH; FDA/supplements, plus, February 24, 2019 Integrator #214: Top Integrative Pain Org Shuts/Pharma Surprise; Guarneri/State of Integrative Cardiology; Joint Commission/New Non-Pharma; IHPC/ Exec Position Open, plus ... February 10, 2019 Integrator #213: Shannon/MDMA-"Ecstas Integrator #212: Ambassador Andrew Young/Traditional Medicine, Nan Sudak, MD/"Normalizing IM" at Essentia,HHS Best Pain Practices/Comment Period, plus ... January 20, 2019 Integrator #211: Consortium/New Exec; Top 10 2018; Integrative Medicine PCMH CHI/Challenge in VBM; Spirit Series/Whole Health; plus ... December 30, 2018 Coming of the Light: The 2018 Integrator Top 10 for Policy and Action in Integrative Health and Medicine Integrator #210: Mendoza Temple/Illinois Med Cannabis; Wyoming/Exciting NADA Law; Trump Admin/Non-Discrimina Integrator #209: CDC-NCCIH/New CAM Use Data; Consumer Belief in Cancer Alternatives/Integra Integrator Thanksgiving: Dec 4-5 Most Thorough National Academy Integrative Event Since 2009 Summit Integrator #208: Bonnie Horrigan Remembered; Impressions/SIO Conference; Dumoff/FDA Removing Natural Substances; Morehouse University Global/Andrew Young-Traditional Medicine; plus ... November 11, 2018 Integrator #207: Remembering Integrative Philanthropist Earl Bakken; "Happinometer"/NAM; Reports on Health-Healing/Quadr Integrator #206: Harvard Medical School/Paradigm Shift to Health; AMTA Fuels Massage Orgs; Integrative Oncology/Special Focus; Palmer-Gallup/Back Pain Advances; plus ... October 7, 2018 Integrator #205: Blumenthal-ABC/Media Strategies; Rehab Medicine/Multidiscip Integrator Special: Are Integrative Practices in New Federal Opioid Legislation, National Academy, and FDA Activity? Integrator #204 - Langevine/New NIH Integrative Chief; Rosen/Integrative Pediatrics Strategy; Joint Commission/Non-Pharm Integrator #203 - More on JAMA Oncology Screw-up; "Queen's Physician" Dies/Homeopathy Challenges; Osher Team/Chaotic IM Standards; Roy Elam Dies; plus ... August 26, 2018 Integrator Special: Does Complementary Medicine in Oncology Kill? Response to JAMA Oncology Paper Integrator #202 - Eisenberg/Teaching Kitchens Research Day, Midwives/Confronting Racism; Cynthia Price/Translating Research to Practice; ASA Honors Guimond, plus ... August 12, 2018 Integrator #201: Gaudet/VA "Aha!" Moments; ND Females/Culture of Collaboration; 3 Milestones in IHM; WHO Primary Care/Last Day to Respond; Cannabis Prescribers Survey, plus ... July 22, 2018 Integrator URGENT Action: WHO's DRAFT Primary Care Definition Lacks "Traditional", "Complementary" or "Integrative" - Comments Due July 22! Integrator Resource: Collaborative Action 2001-2018 in Integrative Health and Medicine Integrator #199: Mandates-Chiros/VA; Interprofessional Leader Thibault/Philanthropic Glass Ceilings, plus ... June 17, 2018 Integrator Special: Chronology of Top Policy Action in Integrative Health, Plus SCU Relationship Integrator #198: Maskell/Insurance Model with Functional/IM; Gov't Report/ND Coverage; Vermont Data/Acu Medicaid Pilot, plus ... June 3, 2018 Integrator #197: Actuary Model/Lifestyle Business Success; Leadership Changes/Consortium & AIHM; ANF-NCCAOM; Biomedical Colonialism, plus ... May 20, 2018 Integrator #196: Actuary ACLM/Huge ROI; Goertz Leaves Palmer/$27-Million; IM4US Conference; Ullman/Homeopathy Course ... May 6, 2018 Integrator#195: Jonas/How Healing Works; Naturopaths/Global Research Efforts; Integrative/Lower Antibiotic Use ... April 22, 2018 Integrator Action: Invitation from WHO/PAHO to add integrative to new primary care definition Integrator Special: Report of Fewer Antibiotic Prescriptions from Integrative Doctors Urges Additional Research Priority Integrator #194: Mikhail Kogan/Integrative Geriatrics-Bredesen; Cedars Sinai Clinic/MD-ND Team; Wostrel/Collaborative Director; Gahles/NAM Practitioner Burnout & JOh, plus ... April 8, 2018 Integrator #193: IHPC/Congressional Briefing; Langevin-Wayne/Next Steps for Acu Research; Ullman/Homeopathy FDA; DCs-NDs-LAcs/SCO Health Coaching, plus ... March 25, 2018 Integrator #192: Osher's Chao-Adler/IHM Social Justice; Saper/STAT IM Defamation; Neimtzow-Battlefield Acupuncture/Air Force; VA/Licensed Acupuncturists, plus ... March 11, 2018 Integrator Alert: Call Congress Regarding Caucus and IHPC Briefing Integrator #191: Boon-Ijaz/Colonialism and Integration; Opioids/Good for Acupuncture; Knutson Hackensack/Leadership-Resilience, plus ... February 25, 2018 Integrator Special: Lori Knutson and the Convergence of $10-Million and Cultural Creativity at Hackensack Meridian Integrative Health Integrator #190: AAMC/Consortium-Opioids, Rosen-Walsh/K12 Integrative Health, Mills-Chopra Center/Non-Duality, King-Healing Touch/Veterans, Naming JACM, plus ... February 11, 2018 Integrator #189: Myles Spar, MD/NBA Players, Chiros-Dalai Llama-Georgia Prisoners, WHO/"Integrative", IHM Female CEOs Integrator Special: In the AMA Celebration of Job Creation from MD Practices, the Challenge for Integrative Health Integrator #188: Penny George-$2.5-million/Wellbeing-YMCA, Michael Smith Dies, Hatch Retires/Industry, Rethinking Joint Commission, plus ... January 14, 2018 Integrator Special : Regarding Hens, Pigs and Breakfast: Starting January 1, Joint Commission Requires Hospitals to Offer Integrative Pain StrategiesDecember 2017
Integrator #187: Tick-Nielsen-Consortium/Pain White Paper, Reflections/Top 10, Connor Integrative/$6.5-Million, Honoring Jeanne Drisko/U Kansas Transition- December 31, 2017Integrator Special : The Coming of the Light - 2017 Integrator Top 10 for Policy and Action in Integrative Health and MedicineIntegrator Special : Open Letter to Josie Briggs, MD on Your Decade Directing Integrative Health Research at NIHIntegrator #186: SIO Integrative Onc/NCI, ND Weber/NCCIH Leader, Clinton-Hopkins/Opioids, James Duke, plus - December 21, 2017Integrator #185: Cong Caucus/1880 Letters, Results/VT Medicaid Acu Pilot, Guarneri-AIHM/Vatican, Katz/G7 Health, $5.5 Million/Osher Collaborative, plus .. December 3, 2017Integrator #184: NCI/Integrative Onc Scholars, Ather Ali/IN Memoriam, IHPC's Wisneski/Congressional Caucus, plus ... November 12, 2017Integrator Alert : Write to Congress to Join Integrative Health and Wellness CaucusOctober 2017
Integrator Special : IHM Researcher Mills Reports Glyphosate Elevation in JAMAIntegrator #182: Integrative Pain/Clinician One-Pager; WA/Acu Payment; MN/Team Care Payment, Mind Matters/Money Matters, HPC/Product Quality, plus ... October 15, 2017Integrator #181: AGs/IHM Coverage, ACA Chiros/New Focus, U Minn/$14-Million, Seely/Roger's Prize, plus ... October 1, 2017 Integrator Special : Shameful Media Response on Samuelis' $200-Million IHM InvestmentIntegrator #180: IHM NAM/Opioids, WHO-PAHO/Trad Med, Levin/Product Quality, UCSD/IHM Centers, plus ... September 26, 2017Integrator #179: Trump Opioids/IHM, Homeo/FDA Teething Agents, ACIH Exec, plus ... September 17, 2017Integrator #178: Herman RAND/Mindfulness Cost, DCs/Choosing Wisely; RAN/Military Use IHM, MaineCare/NADA Protocol, plus ... August 20, 2017Integrator #177: IHPC, ANF-ASA/Opioids, Homeo Cert Accredited, ND/Veterans, YA/IAYT, Dave Mittelman, plus ... August 6, 2017Integrator #176: Joint Commission/Non-Pharma, AANP/Women Leaders/Strategy, Yoga/Neuroscience Lab, Sommers/APHA, Bakken Honored, plus ... July 23, 2017Integrator #175: Republican Plan/IHM, AIPM-Twillman/Pain Policy, IHM/Lower Absensentiism, Ohio/Acu Medicaid, ND Medical Homes, plus ... July 2, 2017 June 2017
Integrator #174: Consumer Reports/Integrative Pain, SCU Scaringe/Interprofessional-Culture, Growth of Yoga Therapy, Berwick/Systems Safety, plus .. June 18, 2017Integrator #173: NAM/ACIH Wellness-Resiliency, Marching for Effectiveness Science, AHPA Practitioner Compounding, plus ... June 6, 2017Integrator #172: Berlin Agreement, FDA/Pain Blueprint,NDs/Historic CMS, EBM/Acu Coverage, Exiting Silos, IHM Coverage, plus ... May 14, 2017Integrator #171: LAc/Allina ER, Consortium Update, UB Integrative Pain/FQHCs, Sustainable DC Residency, Kronenberg, plus ... May2, 2017Integrator Special: Omada Health's Duffy on Integrative Diabetes Covreage Lessons for Integrative PainIntegrator #170: Obamacare.Non-Discrimination, VA/Opioid Initiative, Chiro Leadership/Non-Pharma, Acupuncture, ND Oncology Residency, Awards, plus ... April 9, 2017February 2018
Integrator #168: IHM/Race & Inequities, Reasons for Center Closures, Employers/IHM Sweet Spot, Prov-Swedish/Volume-Value, plus ... February 28, 2017Integrator Alert; Respond by February 20, 2017 on Joint Commission Pain StandardIntegrator Special: Mt. Sinai Merger Shuts Down Integrative Medicine "Crown Jewel"Integrator #167: Monti/Jefferson IHI Institute, Chiros/National Press Club, Ping Ho/Arts Healing Conference, Crinnion/NAM Allergies Report, plus ... February 12, 2017Integrator #166: Cleveland Clinic Model, Chesney/Research Priorities, Crinnion/Top Toxins, ABLM/Certification, Penny George changes, plus ... January 29, 2017Integrator Special: Big Changes at the Penny George Institute/Allina, Nation's Leading Integrative Health ModelIntegrator #165: Trump-Cleveland Clinic/Vaccinations, Chiros Opioids/Therapeutic Order, Dr. Rogers' Prize, plus ... January 15, 2017Integrator #164: Practitioners Orgs/FDA-NDI, NCH-Ullman.FDA-FTC, ASH/Acu Benefits, NDs/CDC Immunizations, Top 10 .. January 1, 2017December 2016
Coming of the Light: 2016 Integrator Top 10 for Policy and Action in Integrative Health and Medicine Integrator Special: AMA, Other Leading Medical Organizations Urge Insurance Coverage for Non-Pharma/Integrative PainIntegrator #163: OCIM/Oregon Opioids, JAMA 's Lundberg/Acupuncture, CHI/Infographic, NCCAOM-ACIH/Credentialing, plus - December 11, 2016Integrator #162: AIHM/Big Tent, ABC/Kratom, Penn/NDs, plus, November 27, 2016Integrator Special: Free E-Book "Rise" with 125 Milestones and 5 Eras for the History of Integrative Health and MedicineOctober 2016
June 2016
All prior posts in the Archive in the right column. Meantime, you can also find most of my recent posts through my blog-site at johnweeks-integrator.com or at Today's Practitioner . Some older posts are at The Huffington Post/John Weeks Integrative Practitioner Online which for many years published the Integrator Round-up.
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