"Can naturopaths deliver complementary preventive medicine?" Thus ran the headline in a recent editorial in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

The editorial was written in reference to the publication in the same edition of a randomized clinical trial led by Dugald Seely, N.D. Seely and 13 colleagues,...

Pop music's British Invasion of the 1960s gained one of its first footholds right here in Southern California. The Rolling Stones launched their first American tour with a performance at San Bernardino's Swing Auditorium on the night of June 5, 1964. The band's first album, "England's Newest Hitmakers The Rolling...

A recent practice of subscribing to Google Alerts for "integrative medicine" and "complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)" astonishes with the raw material of growth and reach of the 15- to 20-year-old integrative health and medicine phenomenon in U.S. health care.

The links listed here and

CFO Magazine would seem an unlikely source of cheerleading for more inclusion of complementary and integrative medicine practices and providers into U.S. health care delivery. Yet the magazine that targets chief financial officers (CFOs) of Fortune 500 firms has been shaking those pom poms in recent months.

There is...

Even when research finds that complementary and integrative medicine (CIM) or approaches are effective, these still may be shunned by health care's major stakeholders. Employers, private insurers and government agencies like Medicare that pay for services often block inclusion due to concerns about costs.

The findings of an exhaustive, systematic...

Satkarin Khalsa, M.D., has delivered yoga programs for medical doctors for years. This year the director of Alberquerque Integrated HealthMedicine scored a breakthrough. Her doctor students were able to earn continuing medical education credit (CME) for learning how to practice yoga.

For patients of integrative medical doctors...

In 2002, the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Policy included a primary recommendation. A CAM office should be created inside the U.S. government. Its role: "to coordinate Federal CAM activities and to facilitate the integration of safe and effective practices and products into the...

I have never favored single-issue politics. Life and legislation are typically too complex for decision-making based on one position.

Yet as we wait on the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, I find myself focusing on the meaning of full repeal to a limited...

In the mid-1980s, leaders of the reemerging naturopathic medical profession faced a tough challenge. They had to make the case for a scientific basis for their field prior to any history of federal support for naturopathic research.

The naturopathic physician authors of such pioneering volumes as the

Common sense suggests that alluding to the naive politician played by Jimmy Stewart in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington to describe a decision by the founder of Priceline, billionaire Jay Walker, is awfully wrong-headed.

Yet there is blunt idealism in the 46-year-old Walker's language about re-positioning the...

"Midwives have a central focus in our strategic plan. We are hoping Washington State can double out-of-facility births in the next two or three years."

The speaker was Jeff Thompson, M.D., MPH, chief medical officer of the state of Washington's Medicaid program. He spoke in a taped interview...

Reading through Bravewell's report, "Integrative Medicine in America: How Integrative Medicine is Being Practiced in the United States," opens a treasure trove of riches for those intrigued by the emerging field. One wanders through one display after another on how medical directors in 29 health system-sponsored integrative medicine...

A bit of integrative medicine history was made in January 2012 when the U.S. Indian Health Service (IHS) quietly announced that licensed naturopathic doctors, acupuncturists and chiropractors would be included in 2012 in the IHS' student loan repayment programs.

The announcement magnetized students and recent graduates. Was this...

"You're either at the table or on the menu." So runs the adage that defines much in the Washington, D.C. Beltway.

Two early 2012 notices sent to me as publisher of the Integrator Blog News & Reports for broader dissemination to the integrative health community by

Caveat emptor: A good friend has warned me that my annual exploration of the year's highlights for integrative medicine in the form of a Top 10 is "too much inside baseball" for The Huffington Post readers. I thought I'd let you decide.

The year was a good one for...

The forced exit of Don Berwick, MD as administrator of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services was a double whammy for the emerging field of integrative medicine.

Berwick is a knowledgeable advocate of the core principles of integrative health care. Few policy leaders are...

When it comes to motivation, money may be the queen among carrots and pain the king among sticks.

Both are increasingly on the side of a more rapid uptake of integrative medicine into mainstream delivery, according to leaders of health systems and military medicine. Representatives of each spoke Nov. 10,...