SpeakHealth Highlights

6/2/2020—Every week, Institute partner, NatureWorx, will be hosting "Connecting With Nature Together" Zoom cast. This Zoom session will connect you with like-minded individuals and let you experience the healing power of nature right from the comfort of your own home. 

5/27/2020—A new survey of primary care clinicians, conducted from May 22-26 by the Larry A. Green Center with Institute Visiting Visionary, Rebecca Etz, Ph.D., shows 70% of practices have limited wellness and chronic care visits and 84% report patients are independently delaying their visits. Nearly a quarter of those patients surveyed say they were sick or injured by actively avoided medical care. For more information on this survey or past results, click here. 

5/1/2020—Cochrane Complementary Medicine Field publishes its first quarterly newsletter, which includes a review of integrative medicine approaches to COVID-19. To read more, click here.

4/23/2020—For some time, the government has been talking about "flattening the curve” of the pandemic. But in this featured editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine, Harvey V. Fineberg, M.D, Ph.D. discusses how we should be working toward crushing the curve instead of just flattening it.

4/5/2020—Institute Scholar Claudia Witt, MD, MBA Co-Authors Overview of CAM for the Treatment of COVID-19.

4/1/2020—Institute Scholar Steven Woolf, MD, MPH provides a more nuanced perspective on the public debate—public health on one hand and a return to business-as-usual on the other. The article was published in the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS) March 2020 Population News Roundup.