Opening the Door to Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Self–Regulation in Ontario

This paper examines the steps that three complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) groups – naturopaths, acupuncturists/traditional Chinese medicine practitioners, and homeopaths – are taking to achieve statutory self–regulation in the province of Ontario. The regulatory framework created by the Regulated Health Professions Act of 1991 is outlined, and the differing approaches taken by each of the three groups to gain inclusion under its umbrella are compared and contrasted. The paper assesses the influence of current regulatory and socio–political environments, and queries the extent to which the paradigms of health and health care of these different groups can be accommodated in a regulatory regime heavily reliant on the conventional medical model.     

Session of the Roundtable "Spirituality,Morality, Law"

Minister of internal affairs Army General Rashid Nurgaliyev declares that effective monitoring of the moral and psychological state of the police and enhancement of their professional responsibility must guarantee fewer police crimes.     

Medical devices; medical device, user facility, distributor, and manufacturer reporting, certification, and registration; correction--FDA. Tentative final rule; correction

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is correcting a tentative final rule that appeared in the Federal Register of November 26, 1991 (56 FR 60024). The tentative final rule was published with some editorial errors. In the preamble under the "Paperwork Reduction Act" heading, the last two lines in the table "Estimated Annual Burden for Reporting" should have been in the table "Annual Burden for Recordkeeping". As a result, the total figures in both tables were incorrect. This document corrects the errors in these two tables.