An Interview With Marc Penn, MD, PhD, Cleveland HeartLab Mark Swanson, ND In diagnostic testing circles, Cleveland HeartLab (CHL) is “IT.” Opened in 2010, CHL is a cardiovascular specialty diagnostic laboratory that was spun out of the Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland,...
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Ludwik Fleck and Naturopathic Medicine: Allies in All the Right Places
David Schleich, PhD Since the 1960’s, the influence of Ludwik Fleck has been rekindled, affecting naturopathic medicine along the way. The philosophy of medicine—what Foss (2002), Kuhn (1962), and others (Trenn and Merton, 1979) consider to be an emerging...
The Case for Creating a Specialty Society of Naturopathic Cardiovascular Medicine
Jeremy Mikolai, ND Martin Milner, ND The time has come for the formation of a naturopathic specialty society in cardiovascular medicine. We assert that forming a naturopathic cardiovascular specialty society (NCss) and board certification is necessary because it will...
The Clinical Significance of Oxidized Low-density Lipoprotein Cholesterol
Cheryl Burdette, ND Various biomarkers are believed to be risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Some of these include high serum levels of total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), and triglycerides, as well as low serum levels of high-density...
Defying Marginalization Begins in the Classroom: Where Philosophy Meets Curriculum
David Schleich, PhD We get so upset with biomedicine. There are many reasons. For example, as one social scientist reminded us, the allopathic medical establishment has ignored and thus tolerated the promotion of junk food, industries producing dangerous by-products,...
A Perfect Storm of Epistemology and Turf: The Debate About Unique Knowledge Within Naturopathic Medicine
David Schleich, PhD The DOs sided with the MDs in Iowa this past winter to beat back our petition to the state legislature for licensing. American “osteopaths” have utterly diverged from their roots and traditions, and their history is such that with assimilation...
54-Year-Old Woman With Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Naturopathic Treatment Case Report Mark Fontes, ND Non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) constitutes 80% to 85% of all lung cancer cases diagnosed, with adenocarcinoma being the most common subtype. In 2011, there were 221 000 new cases reported in the United States,...
The Physician-Patient Relationship: Keeping It Real, While Meeting the Patient’s Needs
Sheryl Wagner ND Mind-body medicine equals holism. When physicians get to know the whole patient to treat the mind-body, we get to know the physical, mental, and emotional experience of a patient. Researching the cause of symptoms means uncovering the stressors in the...
Governance Is a Team Sport in the Naturopathic Medical Education World
David J. Schleich, PhD Our naturopathic educational leaders work very hard to strengthen and expand the fundamental building block for professional formation, namely, the seven programs in the Association of Accredited Naturopathic Medical Colleges (AANMC) system....
The Brain-Gut-Enteric Microbiota Axis: A New Twist on Mind-Body Medicine
Matthew Marturano, NMD Early in my clinical training, I received some sage advice from several elders of the profession: When all else fails, look to the gut. Duly noted, I placed my attention on what I perceived to be more interesting matters such as biofeedback and...