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Happy New Year! Last year review, and what’s coming this year/ ACCME/Cali. Vaccine /Homeopathy/Supplements/Antitrust/Obamacare

Happy New Year! Last year review, and what’s coming this year/ ACCME/Cali. Vaccine /Homeopathy/Supplements/Antitrust/Obamacare

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As we start the New Year, let’s look back and forward: CAM’s ACCME problem The biggest challenge facing the CAM community in the coming years is that CAM organizations are under direct attack by ACCME, the main CME accrediting agency. In the last year or two, the ACCME have initiated a process to revoke several CAM organization’s CME credit provider status. See my post: http://rickjaffeesq.com/2017/04/04/bad-day-cam-patients-first-cam-group-caves-accmes-extortionre-education/ If ACCME succeeds, the result would be devastating to these groups because they are financially…

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New Mexico Integrative Practitioners Dodge a Bullet (with Shirley MacLaine’s help) but there’s still danger and work to be done

New Mexico Integrative Practitioners Dodge a Bullet (with Shirley MacLaine’s help) but there’s still danger and work to be done

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(Dinner with Shirley MacLaine, Pamela Costello, M.D., and Bill Wolfe, D.D.S.) Awhile back I reported that the New Mexico Medical Board was going after a prominent integrative medical practitioner because she was prescribing and selling herbal protocols as primary therapy for the treatment of various environmentally caused neurological conditions, supposedly in violation of the AMA ethical guidelines. See http://rickjaffeesq.com/2017/03/22/can-cam-docs-legally-prescribe-and-sell-herbals-and-nutritional-supplements-as-therapy-without-bad-things-happening-prescribe-yes-sell-well-see/ New Mexico is one of a handful of states that incorporates the AMA’s ethical guidelines as rules of practice, the violation…

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Can CAM Docs Legally Prescribe and Sell Herbals and Nutritional Supplements as Therapy without Bad Things Happening? Prescribe, YES. Sell? WE’LL SEE

Can CAM Docs Legally Prescribe and Sell Herbals and Nutritional Supplements as Therapy without Bad Things Happening? Prescribe, YES. Sell? WE’LL SEE

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Many CAM and integrative doctors recommend and/or sell all kinds of nutritional and herbal products to their patients. There is a supplement manufacturer sub-industry which only sells to physicians and other health care professionals, for resale to patients. And most of the top tier, high profile docs have their own private label supplement brands. That’s a fact. But is it legal and ethical to do so? Legal is a matter of state law. But for better, (but mostly) for worse,…

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Then again, maybe the glass is still less than half full, and water might start leaking out

Then again, maybe the glass is still less than half full, and water might start leaking out

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  Well I tried to transform myself into a half-full kind of a guy by talking about how much access we have to dietary supplements here in the U.S. compared to the rest of the world. But my new found optimism was short-lived: The FDA just released its revised draft guidelines on New Dietary Ingredients which will have a profoundly negative effect on access to supplements, and not necessarily just new dietary supplements, as my friends at the Alliance for…

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My Doom and Gloom at IAACN Jacksonville

My Doom and Gloom at IAACN Jacksonville

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rajccn2016 it’s just the power point, so it might not be as depressing/scary as the talk.  

A glass half empty guy sees it’s really mostly full

A glass half empty guy sees it’s really mostly full

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I just gave alittle talk at the Certified Clinical Nutritionist Conference in Jacksonville, Florida. Up until  the last few years, I had been attending their annual conferences for the better part of twenty years, usually giving a talk about what’s going on in the CAM field (complementary and alternative medicine, now called integrative medicine). As I look back at all those speeches, and others I have given to other CAM groups, it struck me that most of the content of…

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