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By August West (This article was originally published in Holistic Primary Care) Women with breast cancer often experience severe joint pain as a consequence of treatment with aromatase inhibitors like Tamoxifen. Researchers in Barcelona suggest that vitamin D supplementation can prevent or at least reduce the pain. This is important because severe arthralgias often limit [...]
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by Nick Jacobs, FACHE While serving as a hospital administrator for over twenty years, I was aware of numerous people who had died in the emergency room because they had no insurance, had not yet qualified for Medicaid and were terrified that the cost of care would force them to live on the street. Consequently, [...]
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The American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine (ABIHM) was incorporated in 1996 to certify physicians through a psychometrically validated examination process. Since 2000, when we provided our first exam, we have certified nearly 1500 physicians. The process of educating physicians through our Annual Review Course and our extensive Core Curriculum has established a grounding and [...]
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by Wendy Warner, MD, ABIHM There has been a lot of “hoopla” around bone density testing and treatment for osteoporosis in the past few years. After many years of popularity, bisphosphonates like Fosamax are now being viewed with much more skepticism and concern by both the public and many health professionals alike.
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by Wendy Warner, MD, ABIHM At a time when the lines between education and advertising are becoming increasingly blurred, in steps the brave new world of social media. Facebook, the major player in social media, represents essentially a large country in terms of those involved in its communications on a daily (hourly!) basis. Using this [...]
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by Scott Shannon, MD, ABIHM Conventional health care has ignored spirituality for far too long. Integrative medicine acknowledges the crucial importance of our spiritual beliefs and the dramatic influence they exert in our health and well-being. The foundation of holistic medicine and it’s newer cousin, integrative medicine, builds on the concept of interconnected body-mind-spirit. What [...]
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By Mimi Guarneri, M.D., ABIHM This post was first published online at the Atlantic magazine, in response to an article by David H. Freedman in the July/August edition, “The Triumph of New Age Medicine.” See that article at http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/07/the-triumph-of-new-age-medicine/8554/
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by Robert Anderson, MD, ABIHM The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 36,000 to 41,000 persons die from influenza during each flu season. Infected with flu viruses, hundreds of thousands experience illness and loss of productive work time each year, leading to 300,000 hospitalizations and healthcare expenditures of $ 10 billion yearly. Public [...]
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by Nick Jacobs, FACHE When Health Affairs released a first ever study on geographic variances in Medicaid spending on July 7th, it was a new twist on transparency that is just the beginning of what will become a detail by detail expose’ of care and treatment of patients in the United States. Just imagine a [...]
Joseph Lamb, MD, ABIHM
Being a Diplomate of the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine is a great honor. It denotes a practitioner who is a safe haven for patients hoping to find good holistic care integrating complementary and alternative therapies with the strong science and evidence base of allopathic medicine. Patients receive great care from diplomates and diplomates grow their practices when these patients find them.
Lee Lipsenthal