Aaron Wong, ND, RTC Imagine how we would feel if we went to work feeling passionately inspired to see all of our patients. Challenges would come up, but in those times we would know we could make decisions clearly and ethically and that if we needed help, we could...
Nature Cure Clinical Pearls Jared L. Zeff, ND, VNMI, LAc The following is not an article prepared for a medical journal. Not every statement of fact is cited or referenced. This is a commentary on the medicine, a running set of observations about practice in the...
Tolle Totum Lauren Tessier, ND Naturopathic physicians are taught to treat the whole person and find the underlying cause of illness. In times of quick appointments, mountains of paperwork, and insurance mandates, we rarely have the time to have more than a “bare...
The Vital Conversation James Sensenig, NDJudith Boice, ND, LAc, FABNO, VNMI This article joins a series of articles in NDNR that are based on transcripts of the Naturopathic Medicine Institute (NMI)’s Wednesday morning call-in program, The Vital...
David J. Schleich, PhD As our digital and local lives expand and our physical and global ones contract, this sea change will create and destroy value. (Mark Carney, 2020) In the naturopathic community, there has been wonderful growth in the past quarter-century...
Edited By NODE SMITH, ND From McGill University- The causes of psychiatric disorders are poorly understood. Now, in work led by researchers at McGill University, there is evidence that a wide range of early onset psychiatric problems (from depression, anxiety and...
Are You In? Bianca Garilli, ND For us, as naturopathic doctors, seeing patients is the reason most of us wanted to become doctors in the first place. And, there is no doubt we are making a difference across the country. The truth be told, however, is that even if all...
HB 351 New Hampshire's naturopathic doctors are celebrating in the state this week, as their legislation, HB 351, an act to provide insurance coverage for naturopathic doctors, was signed into law by the Governor on Monday. This bill was first introduced in September...
Katie Strobe first naturopathic medical student ever awarded Poncin Scholarship Kenmore, Wash. (June 19, 2012) – Bastyr University is pleased to announce that Katie Strobe, fourth year naturopathic student and student researcher, has been awarded one of the...
Women in Balance Association Joins Natural Medicine College PORTLAND, Ore. (June 18, 2012) —The National College of Natural Medicine today announced that it has signed a transfer of net assets agreement with Women in Balance (WIB) Association, a nonprofit organization...
2012 NWNPC Conference Highlights May 17-20, 2012 “Physician Heal Thyself,” the 2012 Northwest Naturopathic Physicians’ Conference (NWNPC) was held May 17-20 at Semiahmoo Resort–Golf–Spa. This year’s truly therapeutic convention offered an extra day of leisure, and the...
Only plant and seed sanctuary of its kind on the West Coast will serve as nature preserve, education site and community resource center Kenmore, Wash. (June 7, 2012) —Bastyr University’s 14th annual Herb and Food Fair last weekend also marked the official grand...
Emerson Quality Program (EQP) Provides Quality and Safety Assurance of Nutritional Supplements to Healthcare Practitioners and their Patients BEDFORD, NH, MARCH 22, 2012 ‐‐ Emerson Ecologics, LLC, the leading provider of professional‐grade nutritional supplements to...
The ZRT Cup Jared M. Skowron, ND The sandstorms were picking up again in Phoenix. The airport would be temporarily shut down for the evening until the air was clear again. This didn’t affect most of the naturopathic doctors at the 2011 AANP convention at the...
NODE SMITH, ND Common fungi, often present in the gut, teach the immune system how to respond to their more dangerous relatives, according to new research from scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine. Breakdowns in this process can leave people susceptible to deadly...
NODE SMITH, ND A study published in the journal Pediatrics expands validation evidence for a new screening tool that directly engages preschool-age children during clinic visits to assess their early literacy skills. The tool, which is the first of its kind, has the...
NODE SMITH, ND For patients with cancers that do not respond to immunotherapy drugs, adjusting the composition of microorganisms in the intestines -- known as the gut microbiome -- through the use of stool, or fecal, transplants may help some of these individuals...
NODE SMITH, ND Competition among sperm cells is fierce -- they all want to reach the egg cell first to fertilize it. A research team from Berlin now shows in mice that the ability of sperm to move progressively depends on the protein RAC1. Optimal amounts of active...
This week, I ran across an article on a new “exercise” class that is being marketed at a gym, David Lloyd clubs, in the UK - Napercise. Yep, that’s right. This gym has actually begun to facilitate classes in napping. They have created a 45-minute class where people...
Recent research from National Jewish Health has revealed a cellular trigger for autoimmune disease. Autoimmune disease affects between 25-50 million people in the United States, with an interesting gender bias towards women (estimates of around 80% of autoimmune cases...
A recent study showcases the power and importance of getting outside in nature. The study was conducted on individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Typically COPD is considered a degenerative condition, which people do not recover from. And...
The Naturopathic Medical Student Association (NMSA) invites you to participate as a sponsor for the 2017 NMSA Annual Conference! This year, the NMSA has co-located its annual conference with the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP) and the World...
In a presentation this week at the 2017 Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting in San Francisco, entitled Peripheral MicroRNA Patterns Predict Prolonged Concussion Symptoms in Pediatric Patients, a novel liquid biopsy for diagnosing concussion was discussed. Over the...
Screening for cancer may become as easy as putting on a bra, or swallowing a pill. Recently, 18-year-old Julian Rios Cantu, from Mexico, won first place at the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA), for inventing a bra that is able to detect breast cancer. The...
A new study recently showed potentized estrogen to be more effective than placebo in the treatment of endometriosis-associated pelvic pain (EAPP). Endometriosis is a difficult and complicated condition to diagnose and treat, with many women suffering from pain and...
Homeopathy Research Institute (HRI) Recently Published Formal Complaint The Homeopathy Research Institute (HRI) has recently published its formal complaint to the Commonwealth Ombudsman regarding the 2015 review of homeopathy conducted by the National Health and...
The most recent study on coffee has attempted to show the relationship between coffee and tea consumption and hypertension. Since caffeine, contained in both beverages is a stimulant, it is intuitive to assume there would be some effect. Caffeine is known to have...
In a recent press release, the FDA has warned that “lengthy use of general anesthetic and sedation drugs during surgeries or procedures in children younger than 3 years, or in pregnant women during their third trimester, may affect the development of children's...
Screening for cancer may become as easy as putting on a bra, or swallowing a pill. Recently, 18-year-old Julian Rios Cantu, from Mexico, won first place at the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA), for inventing a bra that is able to detect breast cancer. The...
A new study recently showed potentized estrogen to be more effective than placebo in the treatment of endometriosis-associated pelvic pain (EAPP). Endometriosis is a difficult and complicated condition to diagnose and treat, with many women suffering from pain and...
Homeopathy Research Institute (HRI) Recently Published Formal Complaint The Homeopathy Research Institute (HRI) has recently published its formal complaint to the Commonwealth Ombudsman regarding the 2015 review of homeopathy conducted by the National Health and...
The most recent study on coffee has attempted to show the relationship between coffee and tea consumption and hypertension. Since caffeine, contained in both beverages is a stimulant, it is intuitive to assume there would be some effect. Caffeine is known to have...
In a recent press release, the FDA has warned that “lengthy use of general anesthetic and sedation drugs during surgeries or procedures in children younger than 3 years, or in pregnant women during their third trimester, may affect the development of children's...
Lyme disease is a serious condition, which leaves thousands of individuals crippled and suffering, but does that mean our immune system somehow is inadequate to keep us safe from these spirochetes? The verdict may be mixed in regards to this question, as many natural...
Maybe Right Around the Corner A researcher from The University of Texas Health Science Center, Bruno Doiron, Ph.D, has been working on developing a new treatment that could potentially cure type 1 diabetes and change the treatment of type 2 diabetes dramatically. The...
“There’s an App for That” And now there’s one you can use as a contraceptive method. The new, researched supported, Natural Cycles smartphone app takes readings of your basal body temperature to determine whether you’re fertile on a given day or not. The app gives its...
WOODSTOCK, IL – The Lifestyle Matrix Resource Center announces the launch of the ARK Stress Recovery Program In-Practice Guide, a new resource to help clinicians better assess and treat patients with HPA axis dysfunction. The 70-page guide is one-of-a-kind in the...
More and More Mumps Mumps is a condition caused by a viral infection, and not commonly seen in the United States due to vaccination. However, there are more cases of the mumps being reported, and recently there have been numerous articles commenting on outbreaks in...
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NODE SMITH, ND Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a complex psychiatric disorder brought on by physical and/or psychological trauma. How its symptoms, including anxiety, depression and cognitive disturbances arise remains incompletely understood and...
NODE SMITH, ND Obesity has been linked to increased risk for over a dozen different types of cancer, as well as worse prognosis and survival. Over the years, scientists have identified obesity-related processes that drive tumor growth, such as metabolic changes and...
