Worcester Business Journal

Entrepreneur tackles his latest challenge Ready for the state's new 'sick time' law? 9 Businesses seen struggling for clearer guidance in time for July 1 debut. Domaleski, founder of Worcester energy firm, embraces eclectic mix of ventures. WBJ >> To Subscribe Central Massachusetts' Source for Business News June 22, 2015 Volume 26 Number 14 www.wbjournal.com $2.00 Alternative medicine meets the mainstream As Worcester plans for the future, officials see a combination of walking, biking, and yes, driving as a boost for businesses in the city's center Q&A with Mark Jaffe, CEO of Prelert, in Framingham Shop Talk 8 Downtown by foot, and wheels "It's something we think about as we build that density downtown and mar- ket to young professionals, millennials and college students: 'How do we make it easier for people to go back and forth?'" Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce President Tim Murray said. "Providing as many options as possible that aren't car-reliant is part of it in that comprehensive strategy, and biking and walking and signage are all pieces of that." While American transportation I n a not-so-distant future, a freshly minted college gradu- ate from WPI has just landed her first real job, at a life sciences company in Marlborough. She chooses to remain in Worcester, moving into one of the roughly 800 residential units recently completed in or around the city's downtown. She doesn't mind the commute to Marlborough, but, in general, driving is the farthest thing from her mind as she decides whether to walk to Armsby Abbey for dinner, bike to Ralph's for a beer with friends or, hop on the bus and check out the Ecotarium on the weekend. This hypothetical young professional is among the tenants developers are targeting and Worcester officials and busi- ness leaders are attempting to accommodate through expanded transportation options in the city as Worcester continues to grow. BY SAM BONACCI Worcester Business Journal Staff Writer P H O T O / S A M B O N A C C I BY EMILY MICUCCI Worcester Business Journal Staff Writer Therapies once met with skepticism now seen as good medicine, business W hen Georgianna Donadio began practicing chiroprac- tic medicine in Massachusetts in 1976, she had her skeptics. Some members of the mainstream medical community were wary of the discipline, and Donadio said she even was once accused in a print article of "heresy" after delivering a pre- sentation in which she asserted that a person's outlook and lifestyle had an impact on their physical health. But those days are gone. Now the program director at the National Institute of Whole Health, based in W e l l e s l e y , Donadio holds a doctoral degree and is a professor of health sciences. Today, her "integra- tive background" in health care, as she calls it, doesn't stand out as it once did. Attitudes about alternative medicine, she said, are cyclical; homeopathic med- icine was popular among consumers when she first started out, but then it waned for a while before resurging. "Right now, we are in a cycle of natu- ral health care again," Donadio said. Nearly 2 in 5 using it The numbers appear to back up Donadio's assertion. Though data col- lected by the National Institutes for Health (NIH) lags by several years, the >> Continued on Page 11 >> Continued on Page 10 Alternative health practitioner Lynn Gerrits: "We try to work as closely as possible with the physicians." FOCUS Is the city stuck in Boston's shadow? Or authoring its own, new story? 12 Worcester 18 Cars line up to park at the Commerce Associates lot on Main Street in Worcester during a recent morning rush hour.

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