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On behalf of members and the industry, the Australian Traditional-Medicine Society (ATMS) submitted a response to the Department of Health on the review of medicines and medical devices regulation. Following is an abridged version of the response submitted in April 2015.
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Following the arrest of a Sydney woman who allegedly advised the mother of an eight-month-old baby boy to cease all medical and dermatological treatments, The Australian Traditional-Medicine Society (ATMS) unequivocally states that its Code of Conduct does not condone withdrawal from conventional treatment.
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The Australian Traditional-Medicine Society (ATMS) is extremely distressed to hear of the traumatic death of seven year old Aidan Fenton after reportedly undertaking an unsanctioned practice known as ‘slapping therapy’ conducted in a workshop led by disgraced and self-described ‘healer’ Hongchi Xiao.
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The Australian Traditional Medicine Society (ATMS) is concerned by the release of the Draft Information Paper on homœopathy (Draft Paper), released by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) today, as its findings could affect a number of natural health practitioners’ livelihoods.
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The Australian Traditional Medicine Society (ATMS) is dissatisfied with the recent announcement from the Complementary Healthcare Council of Australia (CHC), Australian Self Medication Industry (ASMI) and Australian Integrative Medicine Association (AIMA) to support the proposed Australian Register of Naturopaths and Herbalists (ARONAH) model of regulation for the Natural Medicine industry.
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“Medibank clamping down on remedial massage parlours offering rebates for sex services”
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To create a parallel between the USA Senate decision to declare Naturopathic Medicine Week and Mao Zedong’s belief or otherwise in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is to undeniably draw a long bow. Indeed if the comparison is accurate we could use many an example of Mao’s erratic beliefs and make up a correlation between them and a multitude of woes we are experiencing in the 21st century.
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Once again, some ill-informed comments have been released by the Friends of Science in Medicine (FSM). The article titled, “No rebates for unscientific blood tests?” which appeared in the Medical Observer on 28 October is ill informed, and out of touch with what natural medicine practitioners actually do in their clinics.
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The Australian Traditional Medicine Society (ATMS) represented its members at a workshop hosted by the Complementary Healthcare Council of Australia to discuss the controversial proposed changes to the rules surrounding Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) Advertising.
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People who have been prescribed aspirin to prevent heart attack and stroke may be wondering whether to continue taking it, in the wake of recent media reports linking regular aspirin intake with an increased risk of neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD) – a disease that is a leading cause of blindness in older people.