FON: The Business of Integrative Health & Medicine

Patients are Consumers: Ignoring this Fact is Futile

In a perfect world, high-quality, no-cost medical treatment would be available to all, and every practitioner would use the most up-to-date treatment options—therefore other avenues would never need to be considered, and a competitive market wouldn’t exist. But is that true?

Joe Biden’s So-Far Missed Opportunity to Impact Cancer

With the shuttering of Biden Cancer Initiative, There’s a lot to wonder about in regard to Joe Biden’s future as a champion for those affected by cancer’s sinister grip. Can Biden or any politician actually accelerate a so-called ‘cure’ to cancer?

Integrative Health Prescription for 2018

Though 2017 is closing with a booming stock market that equals wealth for the U.S., the subject of health [care] for our population will not end quite as positively. In addition to rising insurance costs and deductibles, the U.S. population is dealing with deep-seated confusion and anxiety over tax reform law that takes coverage away…

Integrative Health’s Place in Medical School Curricula

Only by teaching young medical students about health creation—their own, first—will they become healthier students and, ultimately, healthier practicing physicians. This will also position this next generation of docs to transmit these same teachings to their patients.

When Alternative Cancer Care Kills

Glenn Sabin shares his thoughts on the dangers and misconceptions of alternative cancer care, in contrast to evidence-informed integrative oncology.

Disruptive Functional Medicine Innovation Drives Value-Based Future at Cleveland Clinic

Is the Cleveland Clinic’s Center for Functional Medicine poised to disrupt how chronic disease is treated, and reimbursed from commercial payers and Medicare, by delivering value over volume? [Special Report]

Politics and Birthing an Industry: All Rise

The Rise of Integrative Health and Medicine—The Milestones: 1963 – Present, a free 92-page e-book, presented by FON and XYMOGEN, highlights over 50 years of our industry’s collective history.

[New e-book] 120 Milestones Mark the “Rise” of Integrative Health and Medicine

The Rise of Integrative Health and Medicine, image of book cover.

Free 92-page e-Book sponsored by FON and XYMOGEN chronicles the integrative and functional medicine field’s historical growth with over 120 Milestones. Download The Rise of Integrative Health and Medicine.

Open Letter to Joe Biden: We Need a Cancer ‘Prevention’ Moonshot

Glenn Sabin’s open to letter to Vice President Biden on the power of true prevention–the critical missing piece of the Cancer Moonshot initiative.

Rise: Consumer Demand Drives the Future of Integrative Medicine

The availability and delivery of integrative health and medicine is steadily increasing. Consumer demand will continue apace. And the timing could not be more prescient.

 
 
 

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