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IHPC Supports the HHS Pain Management Best Practices Inter-agency Task Force Report
The Integrative Health Policy Consortium (IHPC) has announced its support for the recently released U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force Report. “We have justifiably been focused on the actions of the pharmaceutical industry, which helped perpetuate the opioid crisis by promoting drugs for pain that they knew had the ...
Today’s Obesity Epidemic May Have Been Caused By Childhood Sugar Intake Decades Ago
Current obesity rates in adults in the United States could be the result of dietary changes that took place decades ago, according to a new study published by researchers at the University of Tennessee (UT), Knoxville. “While most public health studies focus on current behaviors and diets, we took a novel approach and looked at ...
ACPM Awarded Funds from the CDC to Work with ICHWC to Develop a National Diabetes Prevention Program Group Coaching Certificate
With funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM) is partnering with the International Consortium for Health & Wellness Coaching (ICHWC), a nonprofit subsidiary of the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME), to develop group coaching competencies, a training program and a certificate examination that supports ...
NIH Awards $1M Clinical Research Grant to NUNM, OSU & Pacific NW National Lab
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), through the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), awarded $1 million to Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University (OSU); Helfgott Research Institute at National University of Natural Medicine (NUNM); and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), a U.S. Department of Energy research laboratory in Richland, WA, for ...
NUNM Launches Low-cost Diabetes Prevention Program
National University of Natural Medicine (NUNM) recently announced the launch of the NUNM Diabetes Prevention Program, a 12-month program recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). NUNM is working in partnership with the CDC’s National Diabetes Prevention Program to bring this evidence-based, affordable and results-oriented program to the Portland, OR area. The ...
Pine Cone Lignin and Ascorbic Acid Treatment for Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1
By Gene Bruno, MS, MHS, RH(AHG) Huntington College of Health Sciences Infection with herpes simplex virus types 1 and 2 (HSV-1 and HSV-2) is lifelong and can have serious consequences. According the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) most recent data for nationwide prevalence of HSV-1 and HSV-2 (obtained in the 2005-2010 cycle of ...
ACPM Announces National Diabetes Prevention Program Grant Winners
The American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM) has selected six health care organizations to receive grants to develop new practice setting models that address the national type 2 diabetes epidemic. The awardees will develop and test new models to increase prediabetes awareness and screening, testing, and referral of patients with prediabetes to diabetes prevention programs ...
GWI Launches Wellness Moonshot: Destination – A World Free of Preventable Disease
Lifestyle related diseases and the continuously skyrocketing cost of health care are creating a global crisis that is affecting us both physically and mentally. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the stark reality is that roughly 70 percent of all deaths each year are a result of preventable diseases, while the global ...
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