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The Girl With an Apple

Posted on March 02, 2011
My Dad sent me this story called, "The Girl with An Apple."  It is a love story and a tale of transcendence.The Girl With An Apple (This is a true story and you can find out more by Googling Herman Rosenblat. He was Bar Mitzvahed at age 75) August 1942...

Laws governing massage therapy continue to broaden patient access

Posted on February 28, 2011
Massage therapy goes even more mainstream with its proven medical benefits.According to one report: Recent research has suggested that massage therapy can effectively alleviate cancer-related pain, boost the immune system, lower blood pressure and stress levels, reduce headache frequency and ease alcohol withdrawal symptoms, among many other things...

Medical spas face fee splitting issues

Posted on February 23, 2011
California Medical Board cautions medical boards against "renting a license" by hiring doctors to run weight loss clinics and day spas owned and operated by laypersons.In California, laypersons cannot employ physicians.  Rather, physicians must own the entity providing professional services...

Buying and selling medicine online

Posted on February 23, 2011
Selling medicine over the Internet sometimes falls within telemedicine practice, but practitioners should beware of separate federal and state rules that address online prescribing.        The FDA is so concerned that it has issued a statement, Buying Medicines over the Internet (see below)...

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Telemedicine law - legal rules continue to confuse and inspire

Posted on February 23, 2011
Telemedicine laws are the Rubik's Cube of future health care and statutory research the Penrose staircase of salvation.With health care shifting from the clinic to the Internet, practices are increasingly looking to telemedicine, telepsychiatry and telehealth...

Holistic healing laws practice of ayurveda

Posted on February 18, 2011
Can practitioners legally offer Ayurveda to patients?It depends.  If they are non-licensed there would have to be an exception in the law allowing non-licensed individuals to offer health care services.  If they are licensed, Ayurveda would have to be within their legally authorized scope of practice...

Telemedicine legal exceptions require careful scrutinty

Posted on February 15, 2011
You won't always find telemedicine legal exceptions in the telemedicine box of a given state's laws.Some states lay out the whole telemedicine legal issue very clearly in a policy statement by the state medical board.  Still other states go even further and apply telemedicine law to psychiatry and mental health counseling, or call it telehealth (or tele-health) and lay out the laws and legal rules for various healthcare professionals...

Acupuncture used in the military to help soldiers heal

Posted on February 13, 2011
Battlefield acupuncture is helping soldiers heal from wounds physical and mental.It's popular at "Camp Leatherneck:" ''Battlefield acupuncture'', developed by an air force physician, Colonel Richard Niemtzow, is helping heal soldiers with concussions so they can return more quickly to the front...

Community Acupuncture Provides Affordable Alternative Healthcare Options

Posted on February 10, 2011
Community acupuncture through the Community Acupuncture Network provides affordable alternative healthcare options.Community acupuncture is designed to help people access acupuncture treatments. According to "CAN:" Community Acupuncture Network (CAN) is a non-profit organization of practitioners, patients, and supporters whose goal is to make acupuncture more affordable and accessible by promoting the practice of offering acupuncture in community settings for a sliding scale ranging within $15-40 a treatment...

R U Making Unauthorized Disease Claims with Your Dietary Supplements

Posted on January 30, 2011
Does your dietary supplement make illegal disease claims or authorized structure/function claims? How do you know?Many dietary supplement manufacturers try to 'fly under the radar' of regulatory enforcement when it comes to making claims on their labels...

A Physician's Guide to Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Posted on January 28, 2011
Here's what you need to know about legal issues involved in practicing complementary and alternative medicine....Keith L. Martin has written a lengthy piece for Physicians Practice outlining some of the issue as follows: Many CAM approaches — encompassing everything from use of probiotics, meditation, acupuncture, massage therapy, and energy medicine — have long histories, but their use alongside mainstream medicine is still evolving, especially when it comes to physician acceptance...

FDA raises legal issues re use of HCG for weight loss

Posted on January 24, 2011
Physician use of HCG for weight loss raises legal issues that the FDA has now flagged.USA Today reported in a story titled, HCG weight-loss products are fraudulent, FDA says. The article quoted an FDA official as hinting that FDA could step up enforcement actions concerning use of HCG for weight loss...

Legal Advice For New Dietary Supplement, Nutritional Product or Cosmetic

Posted on January 23, 2011
Manufacturers of new dietary supplements, cosmetics, and nutraceuticals can find legal advice about labeling and FDA-compliant claims by following these guidelines. Legal Advice For New Dietary Supplement, Nutritional Product or Cosmetic             Question: I have a dietary supplement, cosmetic, or medical device that I want to bring to market...

Loquacious elocution

Posted on January 23, 2011
Try Eloqui for loquacious locution.I did my first of several training sessions with Eloqui yesterday.  David Booth & Deborah Shames have a lot of material to cover, from setting an intention to media training. They listen attentively and then provide concise, crisp, targeted insights based on years of experience training corporate executives on ways to communicate effectively...

Integrative medicine is here for good

Posted on January 22, 2011
Integrative medicine is here for good, says Hospital Stay, and it's embedded into the Affordable Health Act.Hospital Stay is a blog which informs readers about ... well, what happens during a hospital stay.  Its editors, including CEO of a major hospital, opine that CAM is here for good: Offered in almost 40 percent of hospitals (up from 26...

I Have a Dream

Posted on January 16, 2011
I had a dream ... I know, Martin Luther King Day is tomorrow, and this is my psyche's homage -- about a spiritual crisscrossing of energies.In this dream from last night, people were moving vertically in life, as along a chessboard.  We all have our goals; a pawn tries to become a Queen -- a King, to fortify his Castle, and a bishop to advance diagonally while the Knight skips about town...

Fire therapy treatment for weight loss

Posted on January 10, 2011
Our lawyers regularly advise clients about legal issues for more arcane therapies you won't find in a conventional medical office, such as of HCG for weight loss, but have you heard of fire treatment in Singapore?This apparently involves dousing oneself and somehow surviving: Once a fortnight, Richard Gavriel turns up at a Tanjong Pagar spa, lies under a pile of towels and allows himself to be set on fire...

Legal counsel for practitioners of integrative medicine and producers of nutritional supplements

Posted on January 09, 2011
 Practitioners of integrative medicine and producers of nutritional supplements need legal counsel to navigate the complex world of law and regulation.Although laws pertaining to complementary and alternative medicine are part of health care law generally, some specific areas--such as licensing, malpractice and negligence, professional (medical board and other) discipline, and food and drug (FDA) law often come to the fore...

Deck the Chakras with Chimes and Toning

Posted on December 23, 2010
Season's greetings to all ... deck the chakras with chimes and toning...take a moment in the midst of all to experience a moment of peaceJust take a moment in the midst of all to experience a moment of peace with this lovely link sent by a friend in the holiday spirit: link to holiday chimes and toning...

Survive: your guide to thriving in a toxic world

Posted on December 14, 2010
If you want to survive in a toxic world, I highly recommend reading Survive by Sharyn Winters, ND.So far I love the book.  I've ordered a Tesla watch and implemented lots of other suggestions - such as not leaving my cellphone too close to my body when I'm in the office...

Medically unnecessary stents waste taxpayer dollars

Posted on December 13, 2010
Finance Leaders Release Report Detailing Relationship Between Doctor, Medical Device Manufacturer, Possible Pattern of Wasteful, Medically Unnecessary Stent Implantations Washington, DC – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today released a Finance Committee report detailing the case of a doctor who reportedly implanted nearly 600 potentially medically unnecessary stents from 2007 through mid-2009 at St...

Conscious entrepreneurs benefit from legal advice

Posted on December 13, 2010
Conscious entrepreneurs ground their ideas in the practical realities of a highly regulated society.That's why I recommend the Entrepreneur's Legal Toolkit: Contract Essentials.  It's contract legal education in box (a downloadable mp3 actually) for every business owner...

Shockingly, Acupuncture Works Study Proves

Posted on December 06, 2010
Acupuncture patients were given "shocks" in one experiment to prove that acupuncture has a physical, not just psychological effect.The shocks were successful: The experiment, conducted by researchers at the Department of Complementary and Integrative Medicine at University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany, looked at brain scans of volunteers who were given mild electric shocks...

Physician use of bioidential hormones raises legal concerns

Posted on December 01, 2010
Medical use of bioidentical hormones raises legal concerns that can be addressed by solid attorney advice and a carefully crafted informed consent.As always, careful legal analysis requires attention to federal as well as state law, and the limits of each...

Telemedicine laws vary by state

Posted on November 30, 2010
Because telemedicine laws vary by state, and the health care professional offering medical services to patients out-of-state is subject to the laws of both the home and the remote state, it is critical to get the right legal guidance.Some states explicitly regulate telemedicine by statute, others by regulation, while others do not refer to telemedicine but phrase their legal rules in terms of the practice by health care professionals who are out of state...

Lawyer with heart attorney aura

Posted on November 24, 2010
lawyer with heart attorney aura is not an oxymoron, but a clever search engine optimization strategy designed to attract business clients who want to see their attorney's aura....Yes, you read that correctly! My friend, Hollywood's Healer Aiden Chase, took this photo tonight on his i-phone app...

The Heart Has Its Reasons

Posted on November 20, 2010
"The heart has its reasons that reason does not know," famously said the French philosopher Pascal.This whole tug between thinking and feeling has played itself so much in our philosophy and culture with  regarding to medical pluralism and the conversation about accepting varying healing modalities into mainstream healthcare...

Healing on a Cellular Level - Legal

Posted on November 20, 2010
If you're a New Age kind of person you'll often hear claims that products and services accomplish "healing on a cellular level."What does this mean? I don't know.  Maybe the cells really do respond.  Actually, how could they not? They're intelligent, they function, maybe they know more than we do - Milton Erickson always sent the part of you that's unconscious is smarter than the part that's conscious...

Tycoon. Transformer. Troubador.

Posted on October 20, 2010
Tycoon.  Transformer.  Troubadour.  These are the self-descriptors I am using in place of "Prophet. Punk. Billionaire."When words point beyond themselves, they enrich meaning with supposition and fantasy -- the kind of creative mental projection that allows new worlds to come forth...

What Chicken McNuggets Really Look Like

Posted on October 16, 2010
Chicken McNuggets look like pink toothpaste thanks to Advanced Meat Recovery which robotically sucks the meat out of the bones of dead, de-beaked chickens.They're so neat and tidy with a little bbq sauce, but: This photo below has been extensively passed around the web today, and for good reason: it's a peak into the rarely-seen world of mechanically separated meat, or Advanced Meat Recovery (AMR)...

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