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 Integrative
Medicine Alliance Online Newsletter
Published: Thursday| April 1, 2004
Issue 37
IMA News
& Announcements
THE IMA: 2003 IN REVIEW
Report from Karl
Berger, ABT LMT
IMA Coordinator
Looking back at
2003, the IMA has come a long way. Thanks to the support of our
members and community, we were able to make great progress in
increasing access to integrative healthcare for all in New England:
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Our website is now filled with resources to help
the public find qualified holistic practitioners, identify
low-cost holistic solutions when cost is a major barrier, and
locate integrative healthcare programs throughout the region. No
other website performs all these important public services.
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IMA
Events
SPRING INTO HEALTH PARTY AND FUNDRAISER
Saturday, May 22, 2004
Wellspace Fresh Pond Mall
Cambridge, MA
Wellspace invites you to the Spring into Health party
to benefit the Integrative Medicine Alliance on Saturday night, May
22nd from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. at Wellspace Fresh Pond Mall in
Cambridge.
Come and treat
yourself to free mini-sessions with massage therapists and other
holistic practitioners, live music with acclaimed jazz guitarist
Steve Carter, free hors d’oeuvres and beverages, a beautiful space
and good company, prizes, free samples, and a great evening out…all
for a good cause.
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This issue of the IMA Newsletter is proudly sponsored by
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Natural Standard has pledged to donate $20 for every "IMA"
discount subscription back to the IMA for member activities.
Industry News and Legislative Updates
ACA HOLDS NATIONAL CHIROPRACTIC LEGISLATIVE CONFERENCE
From March 3-6, over 450 doctors of chiropractic, chiropractic
students and chiropractic supporters met in Washington, DC at the
American Chiropractic Association’s 29th annual National
Chiropractic Legislative Conference ("NCLC") to hear speeches from
government leaders and to urge elected leaders to support
chiropractic legislation.
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Research
Developments
Low Caloric Intake Associated with Reduced Breast Cancer
Incidence
This story has been adapted from a news release issued by
Brigham and
Women’s Hospital web site and may be viewed at
http://www.brighamandwomens.org/publicaffairs
Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) in Boston,
Massachusetts have successfully tested in humans a long-standing
observation made in the animal model: that restricting caloric
intake could help reduce the risk of breast cancer. The study,
conducted in collaboration with researchers from Stockholm, Sweden,
also found that low caloric intake among women who go on to have
children appears to be associated with an even more pronounced
reduction in risk. The study appears in the March 10, 2004 issue of
the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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The
Practitioner's Corner: Essays
By and About Practitioners
Healing Depression with Medicinal Plants
By Madelon Hope,
Director of the Boston School of Herbal Studies
How many people
today lead lives not of quiet desperation, but of openly admitted
distress and fatigue? In response to these concerns, the
pharmaceutical companies are engaged in massive marketing of
psychotropic medications. What is less known is that plants can be
our partners in healing the body, mind and spirit. Many of these
plants share our environment and can be found by our houses, in our
neighborhoods and in surrounding parks and conservation land.
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Profile
INTERVIEW:
Richard Furber, president & CEO Medimerge
by Catherine Saar
Personal
experience motivated Richard Furber to start MediMerge Group, LLC in
1999. After spending 17 years as a Wall Street executive
overseas, he returned to America and acquired an innovative
medical device company. Surprised by how poorly the health care
system was running, he studied the industry until he found a way he
thought he could help change it. A UC Berkeley graduate, the
54-year-old executive claims that he has always been interested in
health care and that after an encounter with an amazing homeopathic
physician in London back in 1984, he also became a proponent of
integrative medicine.
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Resources For The Community:
Marketing Tips, Book Reviews and Other Information to Help You Build your
Practice
Stop Selling and Start Serving: A
Simple Marketing Secret to Attract the Right Clients Now
By Jennifer Lewy
I want to share
with you a valuable secret I discovered about selling.
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COMMUNITY NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
If you have integrative medical news you would like announced here in our
newsletter, e-mail Catherine Saar at catsaar@aol.com. This is a free public service. The IMA reserves the right to edit all submissions.
Integrative Clinic in Portland, Maine,
Enters Third Year
(This news story
courtesy of the Collaborative for Healthcare Renewal Foundation
Newsletter. To subscribe to the newsletter visit their website at
http://www.thecollaboration.org ).
True North Health Center, near Portland, Maine, is starting its
third year as a nonprofit integrative clinic. It grew out of
conversations among three nurses at Mercy Hospital, who wished there
were a holistic model of care to offer their patients. From that
nucleus grew a whole group of people who met weekly for three years
to talk, dream, and plan. They eventually raised $500,000 in initial
funding and then leased, gutted, and remodeled a 7,500 square-foot
facility.
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HIGHLIGHTS FROM OUR ONLINE COMMUNITY CALENDAR
If you want to find out what's going on in New England in the alternative or integrative healthcare scene, we encourage you to check out our new, online Community Calendar on our Web site at
www.IntegrativeMedAlliance.org Under "Events" click on "Calendar of Events."
If you have an event you would like to see announced to the IMA community, e-mail a description of no more than 125 words and including the event, date, time, location, etc., to IMA_Calendar@yahoo.com. We cannot guarantee all submissions will be featured on our Community Calendar, due to limited volunteer time. The IMA reserves the right to edit all submissions.
Research Dimensions of Yoga with Special Emphasis on Yoga Therapy
April 07, 2004
Mind/Body Medical Institute
Rte 9, Chestnut Hill, MA
12 noon.
Presenter: Dr. H.R. Nagendra, Ph.D.President, Vivekananda Yoga
Anusandhăna Sansthăna (VYASA),director of VYASA, a yoga research,
therapy and training institute in Bangalore, India. This institute is
the most active yoga research group in the world and has published
numerous papers in the field of basic, applied and clinical research
in yoga.
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