Patients Benefit From New Acupuncture Program at Seattle Children’s
Seattle Children’s inpatient acupuncture program began as a six-month pilot in January 2014. During the pilot, acupuncturists were available four hours a day, five days a week. Before the pilot, acupuncture was available to outpatients, but only on a sporadic, ad-hoc...
New Name for The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine will be getting a new name soon. The recently passed “Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015” replaces those last two words with Center’s current name with The...
Insurers and covering the cost of complementary medicine
More than a third of Americans use some form of complementary medicine, according to the National Institutes of Health, but despite the effectiveness of the therapies and how complementary medicine can be a powerful component in decreasing healthcare costs, many...