Upcoming Event
The OAAOM is hosting an event to provide updates on legislative efforts.This event is open to all current practitioners, OAAOM members, NCNM and OCOM faculty, students and other interested community members.
Friday, January 27, 2012
4:30 – 6:30
NCNM Campus – Great Hall
049 SE Porter Street - Portland, OR 97201
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NEWS- Take Action Now!
The Department Of Health And Human Services will accept comments until January 31 about their plan to allow states to individually determine the list of services that will comprise the Essential Health Benefits package.
Click Below to TAKE ACTION!
You have an opportunity to take action to advance and protect the acupuncture profession. Please take action before January 31st by sending an email or letter. Include your personal experience with Acupuncture, as a patient or practitioner, even better!
Share this with your friends, family, patients and other contacts so we can get enough letters to have an impact on this legislation. The goal is 50,000 letters, so every letter helps!
Get Involved
Provide Input on Oregon’s Coordinated Care Organizations – In this round of public comment the key issue is adding non-discrimination language to the Transformation bill.
ACT NOW - Public input by email – OHPB.Info@state.or.us – until 5:00 p.m. – before January 18, 2012
Kiiko Matsumoto is coming to Portland
Head, Heart, and Hara:
An Introduction to Kiiko Matsumoto’s Style of Acupuncture
March 10-11 Portland, Oregon
December 2nd – Panel Discussion
Panel Discussion on Lab Testing in Acupuncture Practice
Friday, December 2, 2011
5:00 – 6:00
OCOM – Room B, Clinic Building
The OAAOM is reinvigorating the “Treasures of Oregon” member events with a panel discussion on lab testing in acupuncture practice.
Join special guest Jake Fratkin, LAc, OMD and OAAOM members Malvin Finkelstein, LAc and Siamak Shiraz, LAc along with experts from OCOM and the OMB Acupuncture Advisory Council (AAC) for a lively discussion about lab testing privileges for LAcs, including the regulatory, safety and ethical concerns involved.
This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments provided courtesy of the OCOM Alumni Association
Treatment Room for Rent
Step up your practice! Large treatment room for rent in beautiful, environmentally green wellness building in close-in SE Portland.
Take Action – FDA to block sale of herbs and supplements
Do you dispense or prescribe herbs and supplements?
New Dietary Guidelines issued by the FDA as a Draft Guidence for New Dietary Ingredients (NDIs) may make it impossible to purchase, sell and distribute herbal and supplement formulas.
Take action now!
Read the information here on the FDA website or
here on the regulations.gov website
The FDA will take comment until December 2, 2011
Submit your comments online
http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=FDA-2011-D-0376-0079
- The FDA has extended the comment period by 60 days to December 2, 2011, for the notice entitled “Draft Guidance for Industry; Dietary Supplements: New Dietary Ingredient Notifications and Related Issues; Availability,” that appeared in the Federal Register of July 5, 2011. In that document, the FDA announced the availability of a draft guidance for industry and related comments. The agency is taking this action in response to a request for an extension to allow interested persons additional time to submit comments.
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Highlights include:
1. Only ingredients that are found in the typical food supply can be sold as supplements.
2. Every ingredient and each herbal and supplement formula would require an NDIN (New Dietary Ingredient Notification)
3. So far, the FDA has rejected 75 to 83% of all NDIN notifications.
4. Every NDIN would require extensive research costing thousands to millions of dollars on individual ingredients used in the United States for up to the last 50 years.
5. Every company would have to file its own NDIN notification for the same ingredients every other company is also using.
6. The same traditional formula packaged as pills, powder or liquid would require separate NDIN. This could include the packaging of granule and bulk formulas in office.
7. The NDIN process will take at least 75 days for each formula.
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Please pass this along to you friends and patients and help mobilize the fight against these unnecessary regulation that will block all our access to healthful and healing herbs and supplements. Let your voice be heard today.