A blogger is suing the North Carolina Board of Dietetics/Nutrition for First Amendment violations of his free speech right, after he was investigated and charges with unlicensed practice of dietetics.…

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Turf battles are common in health care, as evidence by continuing legal battles over scope of practice.…

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The American Medical Association (AMA) published an article on licensing of complementary and alternative medicine practitioners in Virtual Mentor.…

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An ‘intuitive healer’ who did not have a chiropractic or acupuncture license is in legal trouble for performing spinal manipulation and other techniques on a patient.…

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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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Telemedicine and other online health services pose novel legal issues, but these tele-health practices are the wave of the future.…

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If you open a practice as a lay hypnotherapist, are you violating any laws?…

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