From Google Alerts: Links to Integrative Medicine in Health Systems and Communities from April 2014

This typically monthly Integrator feature is a quick capture

• This Today show feature with Dr. Oz was one of the multitude of stories stimulated by news that Cleveland Clinic is offering traditional Chinese herbal medicines.
• The Avera Cancer Institute in Sioux Falls integrative medicine program is featured here.
  
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  Russ Greenfield, MD: new private sector role
  
  The integrative pain management program at Mt. Sinai Hospital is a focus of this ABC News piece on acupuncture for pain.
• Use of meditation at Hennepin Faculty Associates is the focus of this piece. 
• Drexel University's online programs now include a certificate on integrative additional therapies.
• A certificate in integrative medicine at George Washington University can be obtained through these June 2014 courses from the Metabolic Medical Institute, led by Andrew Heyman, MD.
• U Wisconsin IM leader David Rakel, MD is quoted here on elimination diets.
• This post at KevinMD on integrative medicine in primary care focuses on the view of U Maryland IM faculty Delia Chiaramonte, MD.
  
• A report from the Samueli Institute on the benefits of integrative approaches was published as a supplement to Pain Medicine .
• U Cincinnati IM faculty Sian Cotton, PhD is among those collaborating on a new $50,000 mindfulness study.
• Carolinas Health System is promoting the controversial "dry-needling" as a means to "change pain relief."
• This article features work of Andrew Weil, MD to successfully bring kale and miso and other healthy foods into U Arizona hospitals.
• An early graduate from the U Arizona IM program, Russell Greenfield, MD, is the new medical director for PurThread Technologies Companies. The firm makes fabrics that limit healthcare acquired infections (HAIs).
  

• The Centers for Integrative Medicine and Healing based in Rhode Island is offering a new position for acupuncturists who will follow their methods.
• This brief report shares regional differences in "CAM" use in U.S. This Health.com post is a similar take. Mediscape joins the chorus with Herbal Supplements Are Top Complementary Medicine in the US.
• In Chattanooga, the Center for Integrative Medicine is now adding physical therapy.
• A widely covered release shares that integrative MD Joseph Cohen, MD will be medicine director at Colorado-based MediJane Holdings, an emerging medical marijuana business.
• Interesting piece on a farm-based, integrative programs for wounded female warriors outside of Burlington, VT.
  
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  Report blasts homeopathy
  
  Trillium Integrative Medicine in Bozeman, Montana is bringing in two new naturopathic doctors.
  
• This article by Sarah Potthoff, DC is a good look at a chiropractor's view of the value of integrative care.
  
• Aspen Integrative Medicine has posted on its inclusion of meditation.
  

• The Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development has published a study arguing for greater use of "alternatives" like acupuncture. 
• The regulation of acupuncture in Canada is the subject of this story.
  
• Regulation of alternative medicine in the Bahamas is among the topics in this article.
• The effort to remove homeopathics from Australian pharmacies is highlighted here. The Australian national health agency concluded the treatment is ineffective.
  
• A sustainable development policy institute in Pakistan plans to research integrative medicine.
  
• Some 250 hospitals in Indonesia are planning to bring in more traditional medicines.