Federal agencies have been branding some of their research and policy work as “gold standard science,” a trend that gained new force after an executive order on the term was issued in May 2025. The phrase now appears in speeches and guidance documents from agencies such as the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes […]
Holistic Primary Care celebrates the life and honors the memory of Nalini Chilkov, LAc, OMD. Through her dedication to bridging the worlds of oriental medicine and conventional Western oncology, she helped thousands of people dealing with cancer to restore their health and live cancer-free. In so doing, Dr. Chilkov exemplified what truly integrative medicine could […]
It takes gumption to cold-call the co-discoverer of the DNA double helix and ask him if he’d be willing to take a look at the anti-cancer potential of a food-derived natural product. David Wales and Rick Jahnke, the co-founders of American BioSciences, did just that back in August 2009, when they emailed James Watson, chancellor […]
Alice Walton is starting a healthcare revolution in Bentonville, Arkansas. In the heart of Ozark country, the heiress to the massive Walmart fortune has built an independent, not-for-profit medical school from the ground up. Her goals? To re-humanize medicine, put holistic principles at the core of medical education, and expand access to high-quality healthcare in […]
(This article was originally published on June 19, 2025 on www.undark.org) American science stands on the precipice. On one side is the administration of Donald Trump and MAGA political leaders threatening to push us over the cliff; on the other is the quick plunge to oblivion. This is no exaggeration. While ostensibly the administration’s actions […]
A few decades ago, acupuncture was not a modality one expected US military healthcare to embrace. For most non-Asian Americans, it was more the stuff of myth than a reality of medical practice. Colonel Richard Charles Niemtzow, MD, PhD, MPH, did much to change that. Over his long and admirable career, he worked tirelessly to […]
Michael McGuffin was a true influencer. Not in the modern sense of someone who builds a personal brand cult by flooding social media with provocative content and amassing “likes” and followers. But in the older, more noble sense: one whose quiet but unflagging commitment to good work had profound, far-reaching impact on the world. Highly […]
It was right about this time, five years ago. I woke up one morning with a raunchy cough, a head full of mucus, and an aching body that felt like a sack of potatoes. “This is weird,” I thought. I seldom get sick, and when I do it’s usually in the November-to-December transition when temperatures […]
Healthcare was not a high-priority campaign issue for either candidate in 2024. But Donald Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, to head the Department of Health & Human Services, and Mehmet Oz, MD, to run Medicare and Medicaid, as well as his promises to tame drug costs, eliminate Medicare fraud, and “make America healthy […]
For a lot of people these days, medical clinics are no longer the center of the healthcare equation like they were in the past: their smartphones are now the point of focus. An astonishing number of medical tests, treatments, and services have jumped out of the clinic and into peoples’ daily lives via their computers, […]
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