Articles by Shari Barbanel
Associations Denounce FDA Rejection of NDI Notifications for Hemp Extract Containing CBD
The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) and the Natural Products Association (NPA) have denounced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) rejection of two new dietary ingredient (NDI) notifications for full-spectrum hemp extract containing cannabidiol (CBD)—and urged Congress to act on pending legislative proposals that require the agency to address the lack of regulation of hemp-derived ...
AANP NAMES NCMIC 2021 Corporation of the Year
The American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP) named NCMIC the Corporation of the Year at its annual conference held July 15-17 in Phoenix, AZ. The award recognizes NCMIC’s decades of service to the profession, providing malpractice insurance and other financial products, educational resources and general support to naturopaths since 2001. For example, NCMIC has helped ...
SCNM Launches Executive Master of Science in Nutrition Business Leadership Program
The Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine & Health Sciences (SCNM, Tempe, AZ) has announced the launch of its new program, the executive Master of Science in Nutrition Business Leadership Program (MSNBL). The MSNBL was developed with input from global natural products industry experts and thought-leaders to educate and inspire current and future leaders to grow the industry ...
IHS Announces Cancelation of 2021 Edition
Diversified Communications (Portland, ME), producer of the Integrative Healthcare Symposium (IHS), announced the cancelation of the 2021 conference, which was scheduled to take place on Sept. 18-20, 2021. The decision was made after the organizers recently learned that, due to the ongoing pandemic, the New York Hilton Midtown temporarily suspended operations and could not guarantee it ...
ACHS Enters Teach-out Agreement With Closing Hawthorn University
The American College of Healthcare Sciences (ACHS, Portland, OR) has been approved by the Distance Education Accrediting Commission and California Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education to enter into a teach-out agreement with Hawthorn University located in Whitethorn, CA, which will be ceasing operations by the end of 2021. Hawthorn University is a not-for-profit online institution devoted to ...
Matthew Fogel, CannaCore, The Green Elephant
Matthew Fogel is a board-certified family nurse practitioner, an entrepreneur, business owner and published author. He graduated from Simmons University in Boston, MA with a master’s degree as a family nurse practitioner. Fogel is the co-founder of CannaCore, a company dedicated to cannabis focused education and patient empowerment. He is a fierce advocate for cannabis ...
Practitioner Roundtable
The Participants: Serena Goldstein, ND, San Francisco, CA, www.drserenagoldstein.com Jacob Teitelbaum, MD, Kailua Kona, HI, www.vitality101.com Nicole Avena, PhD, New York, NY & Princeton, NJ, www.drnicoleavena.com Elizabeth Livengood, ND, Tempe, AZ, (480) 495-0007, www.livengoodhealth.com Since Natural Practitioner’s (NP) inception, the field of complementary and integrative health (CIH) has grown. Here, NP talks with a panel ...
The ASA and the NCCAOM Support the Acupuncture for Our Seniors Act
The American Society of Acupuncturists (ASA) and the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM) have announced their support H.R. 4803, the Acupuncture for Our Seniors Act that U.S. Representative Judy Chu (D-CA) introduced on July 29, 2021. H.R. 4803 would authorize the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to recognize qualified acupuncturists as health ...
Meta-Analysis Finds That Omega-3 Fatty Acids Improved Cardiovascular Outcomes
For decades, there has been great interest in whether omega-3 fatty acids can lower rates of cardiovascular events. In 2018, results from the Reduction of Cardiovascular Events with Icosapent Ethyl-Intervention Trial (REDUCE-IT) were published in the New England Journal of Medicine and showed that a high dose of a purified ethyl ester of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) in ...
Short Chain Fatty Acids: An ‘Ace In The Hole’ Against SARS-CoV-2 Infection
SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, is highly transmissible, with nasal passages being the target of original infection. The nasal passage also shows the highest expression of ACE2, a protein that has been widely linked with increased susceptibility to COVID-19. Now, scientists from Japan have found that nasal inflammation can influence susceptibility to ...
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