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Natural Practitioner’s Top 10 Stories of 2025
As 2025 comes to an end, Natural Practitioner (NP) magazine looks back at the most read stories throughout the year. This year featured news items include natural products industry associations responding to recent studies and tariffs. In 2025, VRM Media partnered with Positively Natural Network (PNN) to promote the Naturally Independent Expo in Palm Springs, CA. Two of ...
INM to Hold Free Practical Webinar on Nutrition in Pregnancy
The Institute for Natural Medicine (INM) invites families, health professionals and anyone invested in lifelong wellness to join a free webinar: The Power of Nutrition for a Healthy Start on Jan. 23 from 12-1:30 p.m. PST. This hour-and-a-half-long event will explore how decisions made by parents and providers during pregnancy and early childhood have a ...
INM and NOW Health Group Announce Protocol for Life Scholarship
The Institute for Natural Medicine (INM) and NOW Health Group (NHG, Bloomingdale, IL) are introducing the Protocol for Life Scholarship, an initiative named in honor of the company’s visionary founder, Elwood Richard. With a generous six-figure investment spread over five years, this scholarship marks the single largest commitment ever made to advance naturopathic residency programs, ...
U.S. Surgeon General Speaks at a Childhood Wellness Symposium Where INM Receives an Award
On April 3, I traveled to Des Moines, IA, to receive an award for Naturally Well, INM’s (Institute for Natural Medicine) childhood nutritional education program as a leading nationwide initiative dedicated to youth well-being. This is INM’s first national honor. The Harkin on Wellness Symposium is an annual event by the Harkin Institute for Public ...
The Institute for Natural Medicine: Celebrating 30 Years of Impact
In a world marked by challenges and constant change, the endurance of a nonprofit for three decades is a testament to its resilience and unwavering commitment to making a positive impact. As the Institute for Natural Medicine (INM) is midway through our 30th Anniversary year, I would like to take a moment to celebrate the ...
INM Launches Integrative Medicine Lecture Series With Whole-person Pain Care
In June 2021, the Institute for Natural Medicine (INM) created an interdisciplinary Advisory Board to truly deliver on the promise of a new model of integrated whole health. The professional community must begin effectively collaborating. To help in this regard, the INM built the advisory board over the next year, focusing on integrative-minded medical doctors ...
INM Responds to NIH Requests on Determinants of Whole-person Health and ODS Strategic Planning
The Institute for Natural Medicine recently responded to two requests for information from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NIH has established a focus on Whole Person – Whole Health for its research initiatives, which we referenced in both of our responses. The first request was from the NIH National Center for Complementary and ...
Naturopathic Medical Organizations Jointly Issue White Paper on Whole-person Care
Against the backdrop of the International Day of Natural Medicine, the Institute for Natural Medicine (INM) and the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP) have announced the joint publication of a white paper designed to raise awareness of the principles of naturopathic medicine and reaffirm the profession’s commitment to a collaborative model of clinical care. The paper, “Naturopathic Physicians as ...
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 ...
INM Creates an Interdisciplinary Advisory Board to Help Deliver on the Promise of Whole Health Models of Care
Health care is being re-imagined in the U.S. The medical profession is at a critical crossroads as the public gains greater awareness, acceptance and desire for integrative therapies and institutions are seeking to learn how to adopt and maximize this approach to health. Here are three examples that demonstrate a whole health movement is taking ...
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