From Google Alerts: Links to Integrative Medicine in Health Systems and Communities: February 2013

Spewing information on alternative and integrative medicine

This monthly report includes 24 short segments on integrative medicine developments in health systems and the community for January 6, 2013-February 10, 2013. These came via Google Alerts. Major players in the month's news were reports on research studies showing high use of alternative therapies by children using pediatric specialists, another that found higher use of CAM in the military than civilian populations, and a Health Affairs piece on spending on CAM services.

• Lorenzo Cohen, PhD of the MD Anderson Center argues in this Huffington Post piece that it's time for acupuncture to be "part of standard care."
• Cohen's recent research on benefits of gi-gong for cancer patients is here.
  
• Eva Lausier, MD of Duke Integrative Medicine details the therapies integrative medicine doctors use in lieu of "more invasive therapies" in this YouTube clip.
• The Defense Centers of Excellence has posted its basic definition of "CAM."
• The University of Cincinnati Physicians group describes its integrative clinical services here.
• The Levine Cancer Institute's free integrative oncology educational session for the public got a boost here.
• In two children's hospitals CAM use among patients in pediatric specialties was found to be at 42% in a centrally located center and 71% at a western center.
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  UCSD's Gene Kallenberg, MD
  
  The topic was alternative treatments for heart disease in this news account featuring Illinois' Ingalls Memorial Hospital.
• A UCLA conference on integrative medicine featured keynotes from John Weeks and Ka-Kit Hui, MD.
• Weeks' look at cost-effectiveness in integrative medicine was separately posted by the UCLA center here.
  
• UCLA integrative medicine practitioner Malcolm Taw, MD was quoted in a recent LA Times piece on balance disorders.
  
• A new bio of UCSD's integrative medicine director Gene Kallenberg, MD is here.
• The Mission Health integrative program in western North Carolina is featured in this article.
• Jefferson Hospital's Myrna Brind Center's doctors respond to questions on integrative medicine.
• A collaboration between UCSD integrative medicine, Pacific College of Oriental Medicine and Bastyr University for integrative medicine day is in this YouTube video.
• RMH Healthcare, a division of Sentara, has launched an integrative medicine practice in Harrisonburg, VA that combines traditional and non-traditional medicine and therapies.
• A consultant to the Integrative Medicine Center of Santa Barbara was utilized in this NBC News segment. 
  
• The integrative team at Chicago's Weiss Memorial Hospital is here.
  
• The Weiss center separately pushed out information on its acupuncture services.
  
• This Yelp posting has a brief review of integrative medicine at the Disney Family Cancer Center in Burbank.
• Integrative oncology services at Cleveland Siedman Cancer Center are here.
• A rare Robert Wood Johnson Foundation mention of integrative medicine is this piece on the integrative medicine in preventive medicine program at MeHarry Medical College.
• The University of Wisconsin integrative medicine has posted "videos for your health."
• UCLA health system's partnership with Donna Karan is featured in this Acupuncture Today article.