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The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) is a United States government agency which explores complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). It was created in 1991 as the Office of Alternative Medicine (OAM), and renamed the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) before receiving its current name in 2014. [1]
The American Board of Physician Specialties (ABPS), the official certifying body for the American Association of Physician Specialists (AAPS) is a non-profit umbrella organization for sixteen medical specialty boards that certifies and re-certifies physicians in fourteen medical specialties in the United States and Canada.
Gladys Louise McGarey (née Taylor, November 30, 1920 – September 28, 2024) was an American holistic physician and medical activist. Over her career, McGarey promoted better childbirth practices, holistic medicine, and acupuncture through her medical practice, speeches, and books.
Alternative medicine is a term often used to describe medical practices where are untested or untestable.Complementary medicine (CM), complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), integrated medicine or integrative medicine (IM), functional medicine, and holistic medicine are among many rebrandings of the same phenomenon.
The Alliance for Natural Health USA (ANH-USA), formerly known as the American Association for Health Freedom, is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting alternative medicine and is associated with the libertarian health freedom movement.
Andrew Weil – Founder of Integrative Medicine and author. Darrell Wolfe – Founder of The Wolfe Clinic; J. R. Worsley – Founder of Five Elements school of acupuncture. Frances Wright – Active in the American Popular Health Movement of the 1830s and 40s. P. K. Warrier – Indian Ayurvedic physician who received Padma Bhushan in 2010.
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering alternative medicine published by Mary Ann Liebert. It was established in 1995 and is the official journal of the Society for Acupuncture Research. The editor-in-chief is John Weeks, who succeeded the founding editor, Kim A. Jobst.
Weil was born in Philadelphia, on June 8, 1942, [4] the only child of parents who operated a millinery store, [4] in a family that was Reform Jewish. [5] He graduated from high school in 1959, and was awarded a scholarship from the American Association for the United Nations, [4] giving him the opportunity to go abroad for a year, during which he lived with families in India, Thailand, and ...