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ABIHM Board of Directors Member Daniel Friedland, MD Speaks on Wellness on Capitol Hill

Feb 14, 2012
By abihmadmin
Posted in Bio General Health Health guidelines
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ABIHM Board of Directors Member Daniel Friedland MD, CEO of SuperSmartHealth, joined wellness activist, Mariel Hemingway and Sallie Fraenkel from SpaFinder on Capitol Hill recently to meet with Representative Joe Pitts, Chair of the Health Committee, to promote the Wellness Week Pledge: 7 simple, powerful and evidence-based steps to optimize health and wellness. The components of the Wellness Week Pledge include the following:

  1. Change my breakfast
  2. Choose to move
  3. Hydrate
  4. Connect with nature
  5. Make my sleep a priority
  6. Embrace the power...
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Healing Young Minds: Helping Children Strive in a Stress-Filled World

Jan 27, 2012
By abihmadmin
Posted in Blog Mental Health Pediatrics

By Scott Shannon, MD

Healing Young Minds: Helping Children Thrive in a Stress-Filled World

A five-year-old boy begins kindergarten.  He goes to school from 8:15 till 3:15, which seems an eternity.  After lunch, he longs for a nap, or at least some time to glide back and forth on the swings.  Instead, he sits and copies words from a text onto her notebook.  The arrangement of letters makes no sense to him.  The teacher encourages him to sound out the words, but he can’t.  He envies his younger sister, who gets to stay home.  When he climbs into the car most afternoons,...

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Enjoy Every Sandwich

Dec 20, 2011
By Wendy Warner
Posted in Blog History of medicine Lifestyle Perspectives

by Victor S. Sierpina, MD, ABIHM

This book is an autobiography of the soul of Dr. Lee Lipsenthal in which he describes both his living and dying. Lee was a well known holistic physician whose life work evolved from being an internist in private practice, to being a researcher with Dean Ornish’s prevention programs, and finally an internationally known presenter on creating a balance in a medical professional life. Read More »

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Stories that Heal: Case Studies, Anomalies, and Mysterium

Dec 19, 2011
By Wendy Warner
Posted in Blog General Health History of medicine

by Victor S. Sierpina, MD, ABIHM

“When men lack a sense of awe, there will be disaster.”

Lao Tsu

In a recent issue of Academic Medicine, editor Steven L. Kanter, MD, spoke about the value of “case studies that are analytic, penetrating, that illuminate fundamental precepts and concepts, and that reveal new avenues for research or theory development, and have the potential to broaden and deepen knowledge and understanding in  a way that might not be available otherwise.” (1) Read More »

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Integrative Approaches to Sleep and Sleep Disorders

Dec 5, 2011
By Wendy Warner
Posted in Blog General Health Health guidelines Lifestyle Supplements

by Victor Sierpina, MD, ABIHM

Our society doesn’t really contribute to healthy sleep. Our staccato, frenzied pace, overstimulation with media, caffeine, and nocturnal lights all break the natural rhythms of the body that are conducive to good sleep. Read More »

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Pearls from the 12th Annual Science and Clinical Application of Integrative Holistic Medicine Conference

Nov 25, 2011
By abihmadmin
Posted in General Health Health guidelines Nutrition

Posted by Nancy Sudak, MD, ABIHM
We’d like to offer this space as a forum to discuss clinical pearls from our most recent Review Course, held November 6-11th, 2011 in St. Petersburg, FL. Please take a moment to offer your comments on pearls of wisdom you experienced at the conference!

To begin:
Dave Rakel, MD, in his lecture, “The Clinician Effect” challenged us with the statement that “The practitioner is more powerful than the pills we prescribe.” In a study that Rakel and his colleagues conducted in 2009, both the duration and severity of the common cold were reduced in patients...

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ABIHM/Scripps Annual Review Course Comments

Nov 15, 2011
By abihmadmin
Posted in Perspectives

Presented by ABIHM Board Member, Nick Jacobs, FACHE

I’m speaking at the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine’s Educational Conference today at 2:00 PM, but have been listening intently to the various presenters — my fellow board members, throughout the event. All of these folks are MD’s who embrace holistic (body, mind and spirit) and integrative (the world’s greatest) treatment modalities for appropriate care in medicine.

I’ve learned about Abraham Flexner who wrote a white paper in 1910 that became the de facto guideline for what would be taught in medical schools; essentially, a reductionist approach to practicing medicine which has...

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A Resonant Collaboration

Oct 11, 2011
By abihmadmin
Posted in Educational opportunities

By Nancy Sudak, MD, ABIHM

Those of you who are familiar with Planetree know that it is a healthcare system whose vision is to promote the development and implementation of innovative models of healthcare that focus on healing and nurturing body, mind and spirit. As an international leader in patient-centered care, Planetree has been pioneering methods for personalizing, humanizing and demystifying the healthcare experience for patients and their families for 30 years. Planetree hospitals and clinics are visible in most states, and even in several countries outside of the USA.

Planetree’s Annual Conference is occurring at the very end of this month...

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Lee Lipsenthal

Sep 26, 2011
By admin
Posted in Blog History of medicine Spirituality in medicine

by Wendy Warner, MD, ABIHM (with input from others)

It is with a very heavy heart that we announce the passing of Lee Lipsenthal, MD, ABIHM.  Lee was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in 2009; it returned several months ago.  He was surrounded by family when he crossed over on Monday, September 19, 2011.

Lee had a conventional medical training, with an undergraduate degree from George Washington, medical school at Howard University, residency at Medical College of Pennsylvania.   During his training, though, he became interested in prevention of heart disease, rather than...

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Vitamin D May Prevent Tamoxifen- Associated Joint Problems

Sep 15, 2011
By admin
Posted in Blog General Health Health guidelines Lifestyle Nutrition Supplements
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 a woman’s willingness to complete tamoxifen treatment.

Daniel Prieto-Alhambra and colleagues at the Hospital del Mar, studied a cohort of 290 breast cancer patients undergoing treatment with Tamoxifen or another of...

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