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Quick Links to Integrative Medicine News in Medical Organizations and Communities: November 2015 |
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Written by John Weeks
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Quick Links to Integrative Medicine News in Medical Organizations and Communities: November 2015
This Integrator
feature is a
quick capture of highlights
from web stories relative to integrative medicine and health in the prior
month. Here are 26 involving medical delivery systems and 14 more in
communities. Included are the remarkable developments in the "biofield" led by Shamini Jain, MD, Deepak Chopra and others; David Katz, MD's decision to take on the "polarization-based medicine" anti-CAM/IM tribe; expansion of the mindfulness program for educators and clinicians at Georgetown University; very favorable coverage on acupuncture's coming of age in Time and US News & World Reports; and Ronald Hoffman, MD challenging recent negative reports on dietary supplements. Enjoy the skim of activities!
Medical Delivery Organizations
- Deepak Chopra's new book with Harvard professor Rudolph
Tanzi, MD, Super Genes, was released this
month. A good blog piece from Palo Alto Online is here.
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The topic of music
and integrative medicine is the focus of this presentation at the
University of New Mexico.
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The director of integrative pain treatment at Mt. Sinai
School of Medicine is quoted in this
US News & World Report piece that acupuncture and Alexander
Technique can be useful for neck pain. The report has been picked up in
multiple media including this
at Clinical Adviser.
 Katz: taking on the "polarization-based medicine" tribe
The dogfight between Yale IM leader David Katz, MD, MPH
and the Polarization Based Medicine types (they call themselves
"science-based") continues
here.
- Katz, MD continues in a similar vein relative to a recent paper in
JAMA Internal Medicine on the many normal
treatments that have strong evidence against them, but they are still
routinely provided. His perspective is blasted here from a "Polarization-based
Medicine" blogger.
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The Upper Chesapeake Healthcare, part of the U Maryland
system, has inked a deal with Maryland University of Integrative Health to
provide various
integrative services.
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Medscape published on the November 4, 2015 article
from NCCIH on use of yoga, supplements and etc. in staying healthy. NCCIH's
Josie Briggs, MD and Jun Mao, MD, IM at U Penn are quoted in the Medscape piece.
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Lorenzo Cohen, with the IM program at MD Anderson is
among those anticipated for a global
gathering on the value of Yoga in India in January 2016.
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A Georgetown University professor, Asma
Dilawari, MD writes at OncLive on integrative oncology.
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IM leader Mary Guerrera, MD at the U Conn is on radio
discussing IM here.
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At the UCSF Osher Center pediatric
massage is a new addition.
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A neuroscientist spoke on the mind-body connection for
the public in an MD
Anderson-sponsored event.
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Former University of Exeter professor and CAM-basher
Edzard Ernst, MD was awarded something called the John
Maddox Prize for Standing Up for Science. Notably, the headline writer
failed to stand the truth test: "Homeopathy: It is right to submit herbal
remedies to scientific inquiry." Herbal remedy?
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A news account of grants to UC Davis includes
$4.7-million from NCCAM for research
on the gut.
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A naturopathic physician "consultant" Teresa Spano, ND is
a new member of the Lee
Memorial Health System IM group in Naples, Florida, in their new clinic.
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Affinity Health in Wisconsin has chosen to shut
down two integrative centers that were originally philanthropically funded.
.jpg) Shamini Jain: lead role in Biofield project
In the Huffington Post, Deepak Chopra and UCSD's Shamini
Jain, MD co-author
a piece that introduced the "biofield sciences" work that a collaborative
has engaged.
- The Mercy Moss Medical Center in Des Moines, Iowa will
contract with a franchise
chiropractic business for an onsite chiropractic clinic. The business,
founded in Kansas City, KC CORE, "plans to open additional franchised clinic
locations inside hospitals in Dallas, Houston, St. Louis and Denver within the
next six to eight months."
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The Mary Washington Hospital Regional Cancer Clinic is
contracting with a graduate of an "integrative
chaplaincy program" at Carolinas Healthcare who is having a positive impact
on a local medical doctor.
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Alexian Brothers IM lead Patrick Massey, MD, PhD writes on
grapeseed extract in his column in the Chicago Herald.
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U Arizona IM leader Andrew Weil, MD talks on
Chicago radio about his new book.
- Also at the U Arizona, the IM program boasts the accreditation
of its health coaching program.
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Former Scripps IM leader Mimi Guarneri, MD is featured in this
release on the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine conference that
drew over 800 to San Diego in late October.
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The mindfulness
program founded by Adi Haramati, PhD at Georgetown University is expanding.
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Kaiser Permanente N. California IM lead Arian Nachat, MD and
former UCSF IM clinical leader Bradly Jacobs, MD, MPH are cited as key sources
in the formulations for Healthiest.
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A $500 a plate fund-raiser for the Northwestern Osher
Center for IM that reportedly drew 500 with Andrew Weil, MD as keynote is
featured here - especially the food choices, from Weil's book.
Communities
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Pioneering integrative doctor Elson Haas, MD has released
his 11th book, Ultimate
Immunity.
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US News &World
Reports has declared, in a title to a story, that "The
Point about Acupuncture: It Works." Here is Time on the same study - also mentioning Alexander
Technique.
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This article in a Princeton, New Jersey newspaper
accounts the work of IM
doctor Aly Cohen, MD, on chemical sensitivity and toxins.
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The New York Times
carried a somewhat
dismissive column on complementary therapies in cancer treatment.
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This Oregon news account seeks to guide consumers who are
troubled by poor coverage despite the adoption of a non-discrimination
law in that state.
 Hoffman: pushing back on dietaryt supplement reports
Author and clinician Ronald Hoffman, MD is pushing back
against media and research accounts of safety issue from supplements.
- Something called Prescribe
Nutrition founded by a person steeped in functional medicine earned an
award from the state of Minnesota's start-up competition.
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In Parsippany, NJ, the founder of a "Wellness Gala" is
kicking off an annual "Day of Gratitude" as a vehicle to
promote integrative strategies - with Bernie Siegel as keynote.
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A billing
service is advertising that it now offers services for integrative medical
practices.
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Two naturopathic doctors in Southern Oregon are claiming
to have the first naturopathic clinic in the state to
offer "Direct Primary Care."
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Something called the Academy
of Comprehensive Integrative Medicine is
publishing a new journal with the same title. The leadership includes medical
doctors Shealy, Gaby, Wright, Sinatra, Gordon, plus.
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Something called
Regenestem "has formed an educational alliance with The Salerno Center, an
integrative and holistic healthcare facility in New York City. Its founder, Dr.
John P. Salerno, is renowned for his innovative treatments for patients, and
for his physician training programs in complementary medicine."
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This article, stimulated by a RAND study, speaks to the potentially
heightened value of integrative health and medicine in the values-based
medicine era.
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A segment of Voices in America, with James Earl Jones, focused
on IM.
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