Articles by Shari Barbanel
NCNM Nabs Awards at AANP Conference
The National College of Natural Medicine (NCNM, Portland, OR) President David J. Schleich, PhD, and the college’s Global Health Program Co-chair Tabatha Parker, ND, were both honored on August 8 by the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP), the national professional organization of licensed naturopathic physicians, at its 30th annual conference held in Oakland, CA. ...
Natural Partners Opens New East Coast Distribution Center
For the past 20 years Natural Partners (Scottsdale, AZ) has been a trusted resource for integrative health care practitioners who were so busy caring for their patients, they had no time left in the day for the logistics of planning, ordering, and dispensing inventory to their patients. Today, the company is a leading distributor partner ...
Fairhaven Health Announces Partnership with Toni Weschler
Fairhaven Health (Bellingham, WA) has announced its new partnership with Toni Weschler, nationally renowned women’s health educator and speaker, and author of the bestselling book Taking Charge of Your Fertility. Through this partnership, Fairhaven Health and Weschler are combining forces to empower women around the world with the information and tools they need to achieve ...
Nestlé Health Science Launches “Enact: Quality Improvement Through Nutrition” Program for Health Care Professionals
Nestlé Health Science (Florham Park, NJ) recently announced the launch of ENact, a web-based, integrated enteral nutrition program aimed at improving patient outcomes through the adoption of nutrition-focused quality improvement (QI) initiatives in the hospital setting. The evidence is clear: clinical nutrition therapy improves patient outcomes, making it a necessary and invaluable part of health ...
Dr. Isaac Eliaz Joins Natural Practitioner Advisory Board
Isaac Eliaz, MD, MS, LAc has recently joined Natural Practitioner’s Editorial Advisory Board. Dr. Eliaz has been a recognized expert in the field of integrative medicine since the early 1980s, with a specific focus on cancer, immune health, detoxification and mind-body medicine. He is a respected formulator, clinician, researcher, author and educator. As part of ...
Nutrition Researchers Develop the Healthy Beverage Index
Researchers at Virginia Tech have developed a new scoring method for assessing beverage intake, the Healthy Beverage Index (HBI). In a report published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics they describe how this tool can be used to more accurately evaluate dietary consumption of all types of fluids. They found that ...
Nordic Naturals ‘One + One = More’ Campaign Benefits Big Brothers Big Sisters
On July 1, Nordic Naturals (Watsonville, CA) kicked off the back-to-school season with the “One + One = More” campaign to benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters of America (BBBS), a nationwide non-profit organization that serves children ages 6 through 18. From July through September 2015, every time a consumer purchases a bottle of Nordic Naturals ...
Cyrex Laboratories Launches Array 3
Cyrex Laboratories (Phoenix, AZ), a clinical laboratory specializing in functional immunology and autoimmunity, has launched its Array 3 Wheat/Gluten Proteome Reactivity and Autoimmunity test panel to provide health care professionals with accurate results in identifying their patients’ gluten reactivity and related autoimmunity. Cyrex Array 3 is the only wheat/gluten panel that assesses three antigen triggers ...
FTC Hosts Workshop on Advertising of Homeopathic Products
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will host a public workshop on September 21, 2015 in Washington, D.C., to examine advertising for over-the-counter (OTC) homeopathic products. According to the FTC, during the last few decades, the homeopathic drug industry in the United States has grown considerably from a multimillion-dollar to a multibillion-dollar market. In that time, ...
Hevert Stress Relief
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