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Hospitals Celebrate Food Day by Serving Meat Raised Without Antibiotics Recently, 270 healthcare facilities across the country celebrated Food Day by serving meals that featured meat and poultry raised without the routine use of non-therapeutic antibiotics. Spearheaded by Healthcare Without Harm (HCWH), these hospitals are leading a growing, nationwide effort to protect antibiotics for human health by ending their overuse in animal agriculture. HCWH reports that up to 70% of all antibiotics sold in the United States go to healthy food animals to promote growth and compensate for unsanitary living conditions. Experts from the Centers for Disease Control to the World Health Organization agree that this practice contributes to the superbug crisis in human medicine. Antibiotic resistant infections cost healthcare an estimated $20 billion and contribute to 23,000 deaths annually. “Over the past year, we have seen a national shift in the way we approach antibiotics in animal agriculture,” said Gary Cohen, Health Care Without Harm's founder and president. “Just last week, California became the first state to enact legislation that prohibits the routine use of medically important antibiotics in animal agriculture.” He went on to say that, “Health care is joining the chorus of voices calling for a transformation in the way we raise animals for meat consumption in this country and building the purchasing demand for meat produced without the use of medically important antibiotics. Hospitals are waking up to the fact that their meat purchasing practices are directly related to preserving antibiotics as an important weapon against infection in clinical care.” For more information, visit www. healthyfoodinhealthcare.org.
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Global Alliance Launches Commission on Pollution, Health and Development The Global Commission on Pollution, Health and Development was recently launched at the 4th Session of the International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM4) in Geneva, Switzerland. The announcement was made by a panel of world leaders and experts in the fields of pollution management, environmental health, and sustainable development. An initiative of The Lancet, the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution, and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the Commission brings together former heads of state; leaders from multilateral development agencies; a Nobel Laureate; and other noted physicians, economists, and scientists from a broad range of backgrounds to address the global crisis of life-threatening toxic pollution. Despite being the largest cause of death in developing countries today, toxic pollution is insufficiently addressed in national policies and in the international development agenda. The Commission Report will be published next year in The Lancet, one of the world's most prestigious and widely-read medical journals. “We need to dispel the myth that pollution is inevitable. In fact, pollution is a problem that can be solved in our lifetime,” said Richard Fuller, President of Pure Earth, which serves as Secretariat of the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution. The Commission aims not just to inform the public dialogue and increase awareness but to achieve the end in its self: reducing poverty, illness, and death caused by toxic pollution, and building healthy, prosperous economies. Their report will reveal the true public health and economic impacts from pollution globally, and will provide actionable solutions to policymakers. The Commission is chaired by Philip Landrigan, MD, a distinguished professor
and physician, and the Dean for Global Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and by Richard Fuller, president of Pure Earth, who serves as Secretariat of the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution.
EP Research Symposium 2016: Call for Papers The Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology will be hosting its sixth annual Research Symposium next year. They are accepting research papers in the fields of Energy Psychology and Energy Medicine to be presented at our international conference on Thursday, June 2, 2016, in Santa Clara, CA. The Association is seeking original research, randomized controlled studies, clinical single subject case studies, experimental design studies, and review/theoretical papers. Research studies do not need to be completed for submission. Researchers will have until May 2016 to complete their study. The deadline for submissions is November 20, 2015.
Submissions Please submit your proposal, via email attachment, Word doc or pdf, in two documents: Bio and curriculum vitae (CV) in one document, and study description in the other.
Name and contact information; CV; 75-word brief bio; Title and 500-word Abstract, including Background, Objectives, Methods, Results (or Expected Results, if not yet completed), and Discussion; Spreadsheet of raw data (if completed); Charts or graphs of your data.
Please send submissions to: John Freedom, research_committee@energyp sych.org. The notification of accepted papers will be made by January 15, 2016.
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A Netherlands Study Shows that Nonlocal Entanglement is Real In a landmark study published in Nature, scientists at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands reported that they had conducted an experiment that they say proves one of the most fundamental claims of quantum theory —that objects separated by great distance can instantaneously affect each other's behavior. The finding challenges one of the bedrock principles of standard physics known as “locality,” which states that an object is directly influenced only by its immediate surroundings. The new experiment, conducted by a group led by Ronald Hanson, a physicist at the Dutch university's Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, is the strongest evidence yet to support the most fundamental claims of the theory of quantum mechanics about the existence of an odd world formed by a fabric of subatomic particles, where matter does not take form until it is observed and time runs backward as well as forward. “These tests have been done since the late '70s but always in the way that additional assumptions were needed,” Dr. Hanson said. “Now we have confirmed that there is spooky action at distance.” The Delft researchers were able to entangle two electrons separated by a distance of 1.3 km, slightly less than a mile, and then share information between them. “I think this is a beautiful and ingenious experiment and it will help to push the entire field forward,” said David Kaiser, a physicist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), who was not involved in the study. For more information, visit: http:// www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ ncurrent/full/nature15631.html
CAM: Professions or Modalities A new report from the Rand Corporation—Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Professions or Modalities?— authored by Patricia Herman and Ian Coulter, looks at an issue facing the
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complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) professions “whereby a profession is defined politically not by its full professional scope but by its treatment modalities.” The report points out that CAM is typically addressed in terms of modalities or therapies in research and policy, i.e., massage, guided imagery, etc. But “policies that define a profession only in terms of its therapeutic modalities, or reduce a profession's scope to only some of these modalities, have direct impacts on patient access and care. These policies have significant political consequences as these groups strive to obtain full legal and social legitimization.” “Where a profession does have full legislative recognition as a profession but is prevented from exercising the privileges associated with that recognition, a case
In Memorandum Mitch L. Gaynor Dr. Mitchell L. Gaynor, a Manhattan oncologist and popular author who believed cancer patients would benefit from integrative strategies such as music, diet and meditation—and practiced what he prescribed—recently died at his country home in Hillsdale, NY. He was 59. Dr. Gaynor, the son of a West Texas dentist, built a distinguished medical career. The founder and president of Gaynor Integrative Oncology in Manhattan, he was a clinical assistant professor at Weill Cornell Medical College in Manhattan, and director of medical oncology at the school's Center for Integrative Medicine. Gaynor authored six books—The Healing Power of Sound, Dr. Gaynor's Cancer Prevention Program, Nurture Nature, Nurture Health, Sounds of Healing, Healing Essence and The Gene Therapy Plan. Dr. Gaynor graduated from the University of Texas in 1978 and from Southwestern Medical School in 1981, after
could be made that the legislative intent is being thwarted.” A good example would be when Medicare covers chiropractors only for certain licensed services and not for others, even though these other services are covered when offered by other providers. The authors state that, “Broadly speaking, there are at least two perspectives that dominate this issue. On the one hand is the perspective of the CAM professions, both those fully recognized and those still struggling to obtain legislative recognition. On the other hand is the perspective of those who must formulate policy around the inclusion of CAM in health services.” The report examines both sides of the issues. For more information visit: www. rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1258. html
which he became chief medical resident at what is now New YorkPresbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. As a postdoctoral fellow at Rockefeller University in Manhattan in 1987, Dr. Gaynor became fascinated by integrative oncology. He served on the Executive Review Panel at the Department of Defense— Alternative Medicine for Breast Cancer Sector and the Smithsonian Institute's Symposium on New Frontier in Breast Cancer and the Environment. In addition to his work with sound and singing bowls, he has published studies on oncology and the effects of environmental toxins on health in peer review journals such as Seminars in Hematology, The American Journal of Clinical Oncology, The Proceedings of the American Society for Clinical Oncology and Environmental Health Perspectives. For his work, Mitchell Gaynor was awarded the New York State Assembly's “Environmental Advocacy Award” and named “Environmental Advocate of the Year” by the MidHudson Options Institute in 2002.
Matters Of Note is written and compiled by Bonnie J. Horrigan, Editorial Director for EXPLORE and author of Voices of Integrative Medicine: Conversation and Encounters.
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Matters of Note
Hospitals Celebrate Food Day by Serving Meat Raised Without Antibiotics Recently, 270 healthcare facilities across the country celebrated Food Day by serving meals that featured meat and poultry raised without the routine use of non-therapeutic antibiotics. Spearheaded by Healthcare Without Harm (HCWH), these hospitals are leading a growing, nationwide effort to protect antibiotics for human health by ending their overuse in animal agriculture. HCWH reports that up to 70% of all antibiotics sold in the United States go to healthy food animals to promote growth and compensate for unsanitary living conditions. Experts from the Centers for Disease Control to the World Health Organization agree that this practice contributes to the superbug crisis in human medicine. Antibiotic resistant infections cost healthcare an estimated $20 billion and contribute to 23,000 deaths annually. “Over the past year, we have seen a national shift in the way we approach antibiotics in animal agriculture,” said Gary Cohen, Health Care Without Harm's founder and president. “Just last week, California became the first state to enact legislation that prohibits the routine use of medically important antibiotics in animal agriculture.” He went on to say that, “Health care is joining the chorus of voices calling for a transformation in the way we raise animals for meat consumption in this country and building the purchasing demand for meat produced without the use of medically important antibiotics. Hospitals are waking up to the fact that their meat purchasing practices are directly related to preserving antibiotics as an important weapon against infection in clinical care.” For more information, visit www. healthyfoodinhealthcare.org.
Matters of Note
Global Alliance Launches Commission on Pollution, Health and Development The Global Commission on Pollution, Health and Development was recently launched at the 4th Session of the International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM4) in Geneva, Switzerland. The announcement was made by a panel of world leaders and experts in the fields of pollution management, environmental health, and sustainable development. An initiative of The Lancet, the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution, and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the Commission brings together former heads of state; leaders from multilateral development agencies; a Nobel Laureate; and other noted physicians, economists, and scientists from a broad range of backgrounds to address the global crisis of life-threatening toxic pollution. Despite being the largest cause of death in developing countries today, toxic pollution is insufficiently addressed in national policies and in the international development agenda. The Commission Report will be published next year in The Lancet, one of the world's most prestigious and widely-read medical journals. “We need to dispel the myth that pollution is inevitable. In fact, pollution is a problem that can be solved in our lifetime,” said Richard Fuller, President of Pure Earth, which serves as Secretariat of the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution. The Commission aims not just to inform the public dialogue and increase awareness but to achieve the end in its self: reducing poverty, illness, and death caused by toxic pollution, and building healthy, prosperous economies. Their report will reveal the true public health and economic impacts from pollution globally, and will provide actionable solutions to policymakers. The Commission is chaired by Philip Landrigan, MD, a distinguished professor
and physician, and the Dean for Global Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and by Richard Fuller, president of Pure Earth, who serves as Secretariat of the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution.
EP Research Symposium 2016: Call for Papers The Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology will be hosting its sixth annual Research Symposium next year. They are accepting research papers in the fields of Energy Psychology and Energy Medicine to be presented at our international conference on Thursday, June 2, 2016, in Santa Clara, CA. The Association is seeking original research, randomized controlled studies, clinical single subject case studies, experimental design studies, and review/theoretical papers. Research studies do not need to be completed for submission. Researchers will have until May 2016 to complete their study. The deadline for submissions is November 20, 2015.
Submissions Please submit your proposal, via email attachment, Word doc or pdf, in two documents: Bio and curriculum vitae (CV) in one document, and study description in the other.
Name and contact information; CV; 75-word brief bio; Title and 500-word Abstract, including Background, Objectives, Methods, Results (or Expected Results, if not yet completed), and Discussion; Spreadsheet of raw data (if completed); Charts or graphs of your data.
Please send submissions to: John Freedom, research_committee@energyp sych.org. The notification of accepted papers will be made by January 15, 2016.
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A Netherlands Study Shows that Nonlocal Entanglement is Real In a landmark study published in Nature, scientists at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands reported that they had conducted an experiment that they say proves one of the most fundamental claims of quantum theory —that objects separated by great distance can instantaneously affect each other's behavior. The finding challenges one of the bedrock principles of standard physics known as “locality,” which states that an object is directly influenced only by its immediate surroundings. The new experiment, conducted by a group led by Ronald Hanson, a physicist at the Dutch university's Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, is the strongest evidence yet to support the most fundamental claims of the theory of quantum mechanics about the existence of an odd world formed by a fabric of subatomic particles, where matter does not take form until it is observed and time runs backward as well as forward. “These tests have been done since the late '70s but always in the way that additional assumptions were needed,” Dr. Hanson said. “Now we have confirmed that there is spooky action at distance.” The Delft researchers were able to entangle two electrons separated by a distance of 1.3 km, slightly less than a mile, and then share information between them. “I think this is a beautiful and ingenious experiment and it will help to push the entire field forward,” said David Kaiser, a physicist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), who was not involved in the study. For more information, visit: http:// www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ ncurrent/full/nature15631.html
CAM: Professions or Modalities A new report from the Rand Corporation—Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Professions or Modalities?— authored by Patricia Herman and Ian Coulter, looks at an issue facing the
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complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) professions “whereby a profession is defined politically not by its full professional scope but by its treatment modalities.” The report points out that CAM is typically addressed in terms of modalities or therapies in research and policy, i.e., massage, guided imagery, etc. But “policies that define a profession only in terms of its therapeutic modalities, or reduce a profession's scope to only some of these modalities, have direct impacts on patient access and care. These policies have significant political consequences as these groups strive to obtain full legal and social legitimization.” “Where a profession does have full legislative recognition as a profession but is prevented from exercising the privileges associated with that recognition, a case
In Memorandum Mitch L. Gaynor Dr. Mitchell L. Gaynor, a Manhattan oncologist and popular author who believed cancer patients would benefit from integrative strategies such as music, diet and meditation—and practiced what he prescribed—recently died at his country home in Hillsdale, NY. He was 59. Dr. Gaynor, the son of a West Texas dentist, built a distinguished medical career. The founder and president of Gaynor Integrative Oncology in Manhattan, he was a clinical assistant professor at Weill Cornell Medical College in Manhattan, and director of medical oncology at the school's Center for Integrative Medicine. Gaynor authored six books—The Healing Power of Sound, Dr. Gaynor's Cancer Prevention Program, Nurture Nature, Nurture Health, Sounds of Healing, Healing Essence and The Gene Therapy Plan. Dr. Gaynor graduated from the University of Texas in 1978 and from Southwestern Medical School in 1981, after
could be made that the legislative intent is being thwarted.” A good example would be when Medicare covers chiropractors only for certain licensed services and not for others, even though these other services are covered when offered by other providers. The authors state that, “Broadly speaking, there are at least two perspectives that dominate this issue. On the one hand is the perspective of the CAM professions, both those fully recognized and those still struggling to obtain legislative recognition. On the other hand is the perspective of those who must formulate policy around the inclusion of CAM in health services.” The report examines both sides of the issues. For more information visit: www. rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1258. html
which he became chief medical resident at what is now New YorkPresbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. As a postdoctoral fellow at Rockefeller University in Manhattan in 1987, Dr. Gaynor became fascinated by integrative oncology. He served on the Executive Review Panel at the Department of Defense— Alternative Medicine for Breast Cancer Sector and the Smithsonian Institute's Symposium on New Frontier in Breast Cancer and the Environment. In addition to his work with sound and singing bowls, he has published studies on oncology and the effects of environmental toxins on health in peer review journals such as Seminars in Hematology, The American Journal of Clinical Oncology, The Proceedings of the American Society for Clinical Oncology and Environmental Health Perspectives. For his work, Mitchell Gaynor was awarded the New York State Assembly's “Environmental Advocacy Award” and named “Environmental Advocate of the Year” by the MidHudson Options Institute in 2002.
Matters Of Note is written and compiled by Bonnie J. Horrigan, Editorial Director for EXPLORE and author of Voices of Integrative Medicine: Conversation and Encounters.
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