Category: Member News

The Australian Traditional-Medicine Society (ATMS), Australia’s largest national association representing professional practitioners of natural medicine, responds to the Sydney Morning Herald article: Health fund premiums to be reined in under sweeping Turnbull government changes, discussing potential changes to rebates for natural medicine.

With my two-year tenure ending in February 2017, the Board met and elected a new Executive team for the ATMS.

The ABC TV program, Four Corners, plans to air a program tonight on the sale of complementary medicines in Australia.

The Victorian Health Complaints Act 2016 came into full effect on 1 February 2017.

Did you know that GSA and ATMS have recently collaborated to cover members under the Professional Indemnity Policy for online consultations?

The ABC TV program, Four Corners, plans to air a program tonight on the sale of complementary medicines in Australia.
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.
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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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.