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Integrative Medicine • Vol. 14, No. 6 • December 2015 3Table of Contents
8 The Path Ahead—The Kidney Dysfunction Epidemic, Part 1: Causes Joseph Pizzorno, ND, Editor in Chief
14 Creating Synthesis—When Is a Disease a “Disease”? Jeffrey Bland, PhD, Associate Editor
64 BackTalk—Confessions of a Narcissist Bill Benda, MD, Associate Editor
18 Harvard Team Finds 43% Reduction in Use of Health Care Services via Mind-Body Intervention … plus more John Weeks
26 Sixteen-year-old Female With Acute Abdominal Pain: A Case Report Kara Fitzgerald, ND
31 Cannabidiol Oil for Decreasing Addictive Use of Marijuana: A Case Report Scott Shannon, MD; Janet Opila-Lehman, ND
22 Bernard Fox, PhD: The Promise of Immunotherapy in Curing Cancer Interview by Craig Gustafson
36 Kara N. Fitzgerald, ND: Case Reports—Informing the Practice of Systems Medicine Interview by Craig Gustafson
40 Author Index
44 Subject Index
59 Conference Calendar
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