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

This typically monthly Integrator feature is a quick capture of highlights from the multitude of links that flow in daily via Google Alerts for "integrative medicine," "complementary and alternative medicine" and "alternative medicine." Here are 8 selections related to hospitals and medical organizations and integrative medicine, 3 from alternative and integrative medicine in community non-system practices, and 7 developments from around the world for August 2014.

Health Systems

• "The Bigger Fix: A Look at a Unique Integrative Medicine Rotation" is the title of an article focusing on work coming out on a US grant to put integrative medicine in preventive medicine.
  
• Memorial Sloan Kettering's integrative cancer leader Barrie Cassileth, PhD is a co-author on this Medscape "myth-busters" piece on integrative oncology. Edzard Ernst is also on it.
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  This Minnesota Post piece focuses on the Gorski/Novella team's call for an end to research into alternatives and an end to "NCCAM's endorsement" of alternatives.
  
• An osteopathic medical school in Chattaqua announced the new head of their Integrative Medicine Fellowship and Lifestyle Medicine program.
• UCSF Osher Center invited its community to a free screening of a movie about what makes people live in happiness, called "Happy."
  
• Stanford's Wallace Sampson, MD, a "CAM" naysayer, found himself surrounded by integrative types when attending a fascia conference.
• The new American College of Cardiology president Kim Williams, MD is a vegan and pushing diet big time according Dr. Soram's Enlightened Medicine.
• Hawaii IM leader Ira Zunin, MD's column is entitled "Obamacare eases access to alternative treatments."
  

• Charlotte, NC integrative pediatrician Sheila Kilbane, MD is offering "mini-medical school" to patients.
• Confusing: a new products supply company has dubbed itself Union Springs Integrative Medicine.
• The home medical care of Milwaukee's Agape Integrative Medical Center is the feature here.
  

• At MuslimVillage.com this interesting overview of self-care practices among ancient Muslims.
• The SouthAsianMail.com piece features the duo of Gorski and Novella on whether we should research complementary and alternative medicines.
  
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  Following a call by the nation's health director to remove all illegal billboards, the Tanzanian traditional healers association is calling on its members to set up committees to gain more respect. One healer responds in this Tanzania Daily News piece.
  
• The remarkable natural food/medicine practice of Mindanao's self-styled Dok Alternatibo is the subject of this article. The article notes that a traditional medicine's law "created the Philippine Institute of Traditional and Alternative Health Care supposedly to accelerate the development of traditional and alternative healthcare in the country and provide funds for this. Not one of the institute’s directors, however, practices alternative medicine.
  
• The traditional medicine in South Asia's most obese nation, Malaysia, is featured here in a post called "Get Well with Complementary Medicine."
• Story is about TRIMED which purports to be India's first chain of integrative medical centers. 
• The Manila Standard's portrait of the robust Integrative Medicine for Alternative Healthcare Systems center is here.