CAMLAW: Complementary and Alternative Medicine Law Blog : Complementary, Alternative, & Integrative Medicine Law, Regulation, Ethics & Policy (Alternative and Complementary Medicine, Medical Spa Information, Holistic Health Attorney, and Legal Resources)

Medical spas are proliferating everywhere, especially in California.  Special legal rules apply to physicians, nurses, and laypersons establishing medical spas.

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Federal health care reform will create more business opportunities for entrepreneurs.

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A Florida hospital is incorporating healing circles into its repertoire of health care modalities.

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I found myself drawn to the National Animal Rights conference in Los Angeles and was surprised by many things, mostly internal.

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Healthcare will generate 3.2 million new wage and salary jobs between 2008 and 2018, more than any other industry; in response, one university offers a BA in complementary and alternative medicine.

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The National Cancer Institute director explains complementary medicine; and a university hospital offers information about a stunning array of complementary therapies, from hypnosis to electromagnetic therapy.

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Health care fraud affects the little guy - there is a place for spirituality in health care, but it has to be balanced, and people who provide these services must be psychologically mature and personally whole, as well as intuitively gifted.

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Research shows meditation helps "ze little gray cells," as Hercule Poirot used to say.

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With the ever-increasing popularity of medical spas, legal questions surrounding ownership become ever more important to address.

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Does the corporate practice of medicine bar apply to other allied health professionals, such as physical therapists, and prohibit a layperson or general corporation from directly hiring these health care practitioners?

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Is colonic irrigation the unlicensed practice of medicine, or a legally sanctioned non-licensed healing art?

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