An on-line video for this talk, recorded recently in Houston, Texas, is now available on the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center’s Integrative Medicine site.
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Checklist of Key Legal Issues in Complementary, Alternative, & Integrative Medicine
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The following checklist of CAM and integrative medicine legal issues offers an efficient and sensible way to work through the different areas of potential legal challenge.
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CAM Resources – Professional Associations
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Below is a list of names and addresses of (and links for) the major professionals associations representing the major CAM professions (acupuncture, chiropractic, homeopathy, massage therapy, and naturopathy).
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How is Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Regulated?
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How is complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) or integrative health care regulated? Who protects the public against dangerous or fraudulent practitioners? What laws govern provision of such therapies as massage therapy, chiropractic, baturopathic medicine (naturopathy), homeopathic medicine (homeopathy), herbal medicine, and acupuncture and traditional oriental medicine?
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What is CAM?
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Although many definitions for CAM therapies exist, a helpful working definition is: “a group of diverse medical and health care systems, practices, and products that are not presently considered to be part of conventional medicine.”…
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