From Google Alerts: Links to Integrative Medicine in Health Systems and Communities from April 2014 |
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Written by John Weeks
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From Google Alerts: Links to Integrative Medicine in Health Systems and Communities from April 2014 This typically monthly Integrator feature is a quick capture of
highlights from the multitude for links that flow in daily via Google
Alerts for "integrative medicine," "complementary and alternative
medicine" and "alternative medicine." While my focus is on integrative
medicine in health systems, the later search term
nets developments from
around the world. Here
are 13 selections related to hospitals and medical organizations in
integrative medicine, 8 from integrative medicine in community non-system practices, and a half-dozen from around the world for April 2014. The big news this month: the Cleveland Clinic's new herb program, the CDC data on regional use patterns and the Australian report concluding there is no value in homeopathy.
- 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.
 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).
Additional, non-system, integrative medicine activities:
Plus a few from around the world:
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