Editor's Choice Academic Journal Main Category: Pediatrics / Children's Health Also Included In: Complementary Medicine / Alternative Medicine Article Date: 14 Jan 2013 - 11:00 PST

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In the treatment of chronic illnesses, it is not uncommon for people to use other remedies including herbal, homeopathic, or vitamins that have the potential to interact adversely with doctor-recommended treatment.

A study, conducted by the Universities of Ottawa and Alberta in Canada, examined the alternative treatment methods of 926 families at 10 separate clinics in Edmonton and Ottawa.

Parents of kids were asked to complete surveys in the waiting room before entering for their child's appointment. The children being treated at these clinics were being seen for health conditions in one of the following areas: cardiology, neurology, oncology, gastroenterology, or respiratory health.

Researchers found that nearly 71 percent of the pediatric patients used alternative medicine at the Stollery Children's Hospital in Edmonton, and 42 percent at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa.

Nearly 20 percent of the families surveyed admitted they had not informed their physician or pharmacist about using alternative and prescription medications together.

Sunita Vohra, a researcher with the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry at the University of Alberta, and lead investigator on the study said:

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BY MONIFA THOMAS Staff Reporter/mjthomas@suntimes.com January 14, 2013 5:58PM

Updated: January 15, 2013 2:24AM

Northwestern Medicine announced that it plans to raise more than $1 billion for medical research on Monday, though the linchpin for the proposed research site is not a done deal.

Northwestern says the centerpiece of the $1 billion investment will be on construction of the new proposed building at the site of the former Prentice Womens Hospital at 320 E. Huron.

In order to build a 21st-century biomedical research facility, expand our medical schools research capacity and ultimately improve patients lives, it is imperative that we have a thriving scientific research base, said Morton Schapiro, Northwestern University president, in a statement.

Northwestern plans to focus on such areas as neuroscience, heart disease, diabetes and cancer.

But the necessary approvals from the city of Chicago and resolution of a lawsuit currently pending in Cook County Circuit Court for the Prentice site still need to be resolved before Northwestern can move forward with its plan.

On Friday, Cook County Circuit Court Judge Neil Cohen refused to overturn a decision by Chicago officials to withhold landmark protection from the Streeterville building. But Cohen left in place for another 30 days an order barring its destruction.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation, which is fighting to keep the 1975 clover-leaf building designed by Chicago architect Bertrand Goldberg, has said it would consider filing an amended suit over the citys refusal to give the building landmark protection.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel, meanwhile, has come out in favor of Northwesterns plan.

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Your childs pediatrician isnt likely to ask whether you are giving your youngsters herbs or treating them to acupuncture. But enough children are now using alternative therapies that physicians should be inquiring about it and parents need to volunteer information about any complementary medicine approaches their children are using to avoid any potential harmful interactions with conventional treatments.

A new study published in Pediatrics finds that the use of complementary and alternative medicine, or CAM, is common among children, especially those who have been diagnosed with chronic health conditions such as asthma. In the analysis, researchers asked 926 Canadian parents at two childrens hospitals about their CAM use; half said their children had used the therapies at the same time they were taking conventional drugs, while 10% tried alternative therapies before turning to conventional treatments and 5% used CAM in place of conventional medicine. Yet many parents werent telling pediatricians that their children were using CAM, which could increase the possibility of dangerous interactions.

The most commonly used CAM therapies included massage, faith healing, chiropractic and aromatherapy, while the most popular products to treat conditions ranging from cancer to asthma and inflammatory bowel disease were vitamins and minerals, herbal remedies and homeopathic medicines.

Whether were looking at the general population or at childrens hospitals, it seems that complementary medicine use is extremely common, says Dr. Sunita Vohra, lead author of the study and a pediatrician who is chair of the section on integrated medicine for the American Academy of Pediatrics.

In the U.S., a recent survey found that one in nine children had used alternative therapies to treat a health condition. Vohra says parents own beliefs about and reliance on CAM therapies is a major factor behind its use in children, as is parents desire to provide their children with every possible health option. For most parents, their number one priority is the health of their children so theyre interested in exploring all options to promote their childrens health, says Vohra. Many parents consider all products that are available and seek out not only conventional health care but also complementary health care.

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With CAM being used by so many children, however, she and her colleagues say its time for pediatricians to do a better job of discussing the safety and efficacy of the therapies with parents. Given the rates of use, we would like to encourage all health care providers to ask about complementary therapies and we encourage all parents to tell, says Vohra. In many cases, its not discussed because parents think doctors wont support them, but its far better to have an open discussion.

Such discussions can avoid potentially harmful interactions between conventional medicines and herbal remedies, for example, or other incompatibilities that can worsen, rather than improve, symptoms. In the study, parents reported 80 adverse effects, most of which were described as minor.

Most parents, says Vohra, will deny that their children are taking alternative therapies, even if they are and not because they want to intentionally deceive their doctors. They dont think of herbs as medicine, says Vohra. So doctors should ask parents, What are all the therapies, including complementary medicines, that your child is taking?

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The Center for Connected Medicine, a global thought leader defining the transformation of health care, today announced that the organizations efforts have been recognized by the eHealthcare Leadership Award of Distinction for its website. The award was given in the category of Best e-Business Site.

The eHealthcare Leadership Awards, presented annually by Strategic Health Care Communications, exclusively recognizes the very best websites and digital communications of health care organizations. The goal of the program is to emphasize the Webs impact on an organizations ability to achieve its business objectives and honor the time and effort put into the best health care-related websites. In 2012, 1,100 entries were received spanning 14 categories.

Our website is a platform for demonstrating the value of connected medicine to the health care community, says Angela Pantelas, executive director for the Center for Connected Medicine. We strive to provide our visitors with an informative, easily-navigable and visually appealing site, and we are pleased that our efforts have been recognized by Strategic Health Care Communications.

Originally developed in 2009, the Center for Connected Medicines website advocates the value of a collaborative health care environment and serves as a destination for organizations seeking strategies and tools to achieve connected medicine. The site also provides information on the Centers 13 partners and their various contributions to the industry.

To learn more about the award-winning site, or to find out more about connected medicine and the Centers vision and initiatives, please visit http://www.connectedmed.com.

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The Center for Connected Medicine is defining the transformation of health care by serving as a global thought leader. It is the worlds first collaborative health care executive briefing center dedicated to developing the blueprint for innovative patient-centered health through understanding new models of care and leveraging strategically integrated health information technology. Based in Pittsburgh, the Center opened its doors in September 2009 and is comprised of five founding partners: Alcatel-Lucent, GE Healthcare, IBM, UPMC and Verizon and eight strategic partners representing global leaders in health care. The Center draws executives and clinicians from around the world to explore the transformation of heath care. Visitors experience the possibilities of an interconnected health care system firsthand, with real clinical examples, and leave the Center with new insights and methods for reinventing their organizations, streamlining their processes and embracing the new paradigm in health care. To learn more about connected medicine, as well as the Centers vision and initiatives, please visit http://www.connectedmed.com.

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Dwight J. Rouse, MD, MSPH, of Providence, a specialist in the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island and a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, has been selected to serve as the Associate Editor for Obstetrics of Obstetrics & Gynecology, the official journal of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Obstetrics & Gynecology, also called "The Green Journal," is the most widely read journal in the specialty of obstetrics and gynecology, with more than 46,000 subscribers worldwide, and has the highest ranking impact factor for all general obstetrics and gynecology journals.

Dr. Rouse is the Brown/Women & Infants principal investigator for the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units (MFMU) Research Network. He received his bachelor's degree from Harvard University, his medical degree from the University of Illinois in Chicago, and his master's degree in public health from the University of Alabama in Birmingham. He is board certified in obstetrics and gynecology and maternal-fetal medicine.

Dr. Rouse is an author of the 23rd edition of Williams Obstetrics, a past member of the editorial board of Obstetrics & Gynecology, and past editor-in-chief for obstetrics of the journal Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey. He has authored more than 150 original papers and scholarly publications. Through the MFMU, he has led studies on the prevention of prematurity in twins, and the prevention of cerebral palsy with magnesium sulfate. His research and clinical work are focused on clinical obstetrics, particularly labor management.

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About Women & Infants Hospital

Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, a Care New England hospital, is one of the nation's leading specialty hospitals for women and newborns. The primary teaching affiliate of The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University for obstetrics, gynecology and newborn pediatrics, as well as a number of specialized programs in women's medicine, Women & Infants is the eighth largest stand-alone obstetrical service in the country with nearly 8,400 deliveries per year. In 2009, Women & Infants opened what was at the time the country's largest, single-family room neonatal intensive care unit.

New England's premier hospital for women and newborns, Women & Infants and Brown offer fellowship programs in gynecologic oncology, maternal-fetal medicine, urogynecology and reconstructive pelvic surgery, neonatal-perinatal medicine, pediatric and perinatal pathology, gynecologic pathology and cytopathology, breast disease, and reproductive endocrinology and infertility. It is home to the nation's only mother-baby perinatal psychiatric partial hospital, as well as the nation's only fellowship program in obstetric medicine.

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PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwire - Jan 10, 2013) - TIBCO Software Inc. ( NASDAQ : TIBX ) today announced a new partnership with the University of Chicago Medicine, one of the premier academic medical centers in the country. In support of the institution's missions, this partnership will draw attention to differentiating capabilities associated with the capture, delivery, and real-time use of clinical information and information technology.

Utilizing existing assets, the integration of TIBCO's event-driven healthcare software platform at the University of Chicago Medicine will yield ongoing healthcare innovations. The institution initially will modernize its IT infrastructure to ensure accurate, compliant delivery of HL7 messaging. Then the software platform will be leveraged to extend the power of event processing across its various clinical environments.

"The University of Chicago Medicine is continually advancing medical care and seeking new ways to improve the health of its patients," said Eric Yablonka, VP and Chief Information Officer, the University of Chicago Medicine. "We recognized the need to speed up progress to continue to improve patient care and service to our researchers using event-enabled solutions. We are pleased that TIBCO is aligned with and assisting us in achieving our goals."

"There is something special happening in terms of innovation and leadership at the University of Chicago Medicine," said Ted DellaVecchia, Chief Healthcare Strategist, TIBCO. "They have achieved a unique balance of applied information technology with an unwavering focus on clinical delivery and influence on medical outcomes. Together, our organizations have the opportunity to generate a catalyst of positive change for the healthcare industry."

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Foundation Medicine Inc. said that Bill Gates of Microsoft fame is among investors who expanded the Cambridge companys Series B financing round by an additional $13.5 million.

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Advances in understanding the human genome are having a dramatic impact on almost every area of medicine, Gates said in a statement. Foundation Medicines approach in harnessing the power of genomic data to improve care for cancer patients could represent an extremely important step forward in improving routine cancer care.

Besides Gates, new investors included Evan Jones and Yuri Milner, said the company, which added that their investments bring the total raised in the round to $56 million.

Foundation Medicines first product is called FoundationOne, and it is a genomic assay for all solid tumors that analyzes tumor DNA and provides a concise report to help doctors match patients with the targeted drugs or clinical trials best suited to treat their individual cancers, the company said in a press release.

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Ancient gray disks loaded with zinc and beeswax found aboard a shipwreck more than 2,000 years old may have been used as medicine for the eyes, researchers say.

These new findings shed light on the development of medicine over the centuries, scientists added.

Scientists analyzed six flat gray tablets approximately 1.6 inches (4 centimeters) in diameter and 0.4 inches (1 cm) thick that were found in a round tin box aboard the so-called Relitto del Pozzino shipwreck, which was discovered about 60 feet (18 meters) underwater in 1974 on the seabed of the Baratti Gulf off the coast of Tuscany. The hull, only 50 to 60 feet (15 to 18 m) long and about 10 feet (3 m) wide, dated back to about 140 B.C.

The Roman shipwreck lay near the remains of the Etruscan city of Populonia, which at the time the ship foundered was a key port along sea trade routes between the west and east across the Mediterranean Sea. A number of artifacts were unearthed during the excavation, including wine jars, an inkwell, tin and bronze jugs, stacks of Syrian-Palestinian glass bowls and Ephesian lamps. [Shipwrecks Gallery: Secrets of the Deep]

"Such objects suggest that the ship, or at least a great part of its cargo, came from the east, probably the Greek coasts or islands," the researchers wrote in a study detailed online Jan. 7 in the journal the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The cargo also included medical equipment, such as an iron probe and a bronze vessel that may have been used for bloodletting or for applying hot air to soothe aches. These findings suggest a physician was traveling by sea with his professional equipment, the researchers said.

To learn more about these potentially medicinal tablets, researchers investigated the chemical, mineralogical and botanical composition of fragments of a broken tablet.

"In archaeology, the discovery of ancient medicines is very rare, as is knowledge of their chemical composition," the researchers wrote. "The data revealed extraordinary information on the composition of the tablets and on their possible therapeutic use."

The disks were about 80 percent inorganic, with zinc making up about 75 percent of the inorganic components. Zinc compounds have been known since ancient times to serve as medicines, with the ancient Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder writing that they could help treat the eyes and skin.

The tablets also contained starch, pine resin, beeswax and a mix of plant- and animal-derived fats, perhaps including olive oil. Starch was a known ingredient of Roman cosmetics, olive oil was used for perfumes and medicines, and pine resin may have kept the oil from going rancid and fought microbes due to its antiseptic properties.

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athenahealth, Inc. (ATHN), a leading provider of cloud-based electronic health record (EHR), practice management, and care coordination services to medical groups and health systems, today announced that Emergency Medicine Physicians (EMP), a physician-owned medical group comprised of more than 800 emergency medicine physicians, has selected athenaCollector, athenahealths Best in KLAS cloud-based practice management service, and athenaCommunicator, athenahealths cloud-based service for patient communications, to support EMP physicians to deliver top-quality patient care and outcomes.

EMP, an industry leader and innovator in emergency medicine and one of the largest physician-owned emergency department groups in the U.S., has partnered with athenahealth to support its continued national growth and expanding hospital partner network. With athenahealth, EMP will benefit from additional workforce scale and revenue cycle management workflow capabilities, which will allow the group to streamline revenue collection and maximize its focus on patient care. Through its work with athenahealth, EMP will also strengthen its point-of-contact with the approximately three million patients it treats annually by launching a new communication services tool to support and streamline patient-physician interactions outside of the exam room.

Our nationwide network of emergency physicians has tripled in size over the past decade, making the task of overseeing financial and clinical performance all the more challenging. Partnering with athenahealth helps ensure that we are managing operations to scale, said Dominic Bagnoli, Chairman and CEO, EMP. In addition to the clear value that athenahealths practice management services will bring to EMP, we were also struck by the ability to use athenahealths integrated communications services to more effectively communicate with patients and providers of health care in our partner health systems.

With athenaCollector, EMP will gain real-time insight into a broad range of business activities, including things like claim status, patient eligibility, and payer monitoring. In addition, because athenaCollector is cloud-based and backed by a highly engaged services team, EMP will benefit from a proprietary rules database that not only monitors billing and practice management activity in real-time, but flags mistakes and fixes them based on best practices and knowledge that is constantly advanced through input from all athenahealth customers.

athenaCommunicator will help EMP more effectively support its patients as they navigate the current medical environment. Using athenaCommunicator, EMP will be able to more effectively communicate with patients without the hassle of traditional methods.

EMP is a category leader in terms of privately owned, managed medical groups with a rapidly growing network of physicians across the U.S. This is exactly the type of medical environment that benefits from athenahealths cloud-based serviceswe can scale up and down as needed, we get the job done whether youre a solo practitioner or part of a large practice, and the more doctors and patients added to the network, the smarter and more effective athenaNet becomes, said Jonathan Bush, Chairman and CEO, athenahealth. We cant wait to continuously learn and improve from the 800-plus EMP physicians that are joining athenahealth, and in turn, share our financial and clinical knowledge with the expanding EMP universe.

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WASHINGTON, Jan 7 (Reuters) - The Institute of Medicine launched on Monday a sweeping study of rising sports-related concussions among U.S. youth, amid concerns that the injuries may have contributed to the suicides of professional football players.

The Institute, part of the private, non-profit National Academies, will probe sports-related concussions in young people from elementary school through early adulthood. The study will include military personnel and their dependants, and review concussions and risk factors.

The study, one of the most extensive ever done, will be scrutinized intently by Americans worried about brain injuries in sports, said Robert Graham, head of the panel carrying out the study.

"You start talking about, 'Is it safe for Sally to be playing soccer?,' you get lots of public interest," Graham, a public health expert at George Washington University in Washington, told Reuters after the committee's first meeting.

He said the panel likely would submit its report to the Institute of Medicine in the middle of the summer, with publication expected in late 2013.

A 2010 study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that U.S. emergency rooms yearly treat 173,000 temporary brain injuries, including concussions, related to sports or recreation among people less than 19 years of age.

The number of emergency room visits for such injuries rose 60 percent in the previous decade among children and adolescents, the CDC study showed.

A separate 2007 study showed that the incidence of brain injury was highest in football and girls' soccer.

About 2,000 former National Football League players sued the league last year, alleging it concealed the risk of brain injury from players while marketing the ferocity of the game.

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The global publishing market for general medicine education is highly dynamic in nature since there is a strong disparity in the availability and adoption of modern technology along with its cost. It is estimated that in the Asian and developing European regions along with RoW, more than half of the people do not have access to internet as a source of education in their homes. This severely undermines the quality of education. Printed books and literature are thus the major tools of spreading education here.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Institute of Medicine launched on Monday a sweeping study of rising sports-related concussions among U.S. youth, amid concerns that the injuries may have contributed to the suicides of professional football players.

The Institute, part of the private, non-profit National Academies, will probe sports-related concussions in young people from elementary school through early adulthood. The study will include military personnel and their dependants, and review concussions and risk factors.

The study, one of the most extensive ever done, will be scrutinized intently by Americans worried about brain injuries in sports, said Robert Graham, head of the panel carrying out the study.

"You start talking about, 'Is it safe for Sally to be playing soccer?,' you get lots of public interest," Graham, a public health expert at George Washington University in Washington, told Reuters after the committee's first meeting.

He said the panel likely would submit its report to the Institute of Medicine in the middle of the summer, with publication expected in late 2013.

A 2010 study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that U.S. emergency rooms yearly treat 173,000 temporary brain injuries, including concussions, related to sports or recreation among people less than 19 years of age.

The number of emergency room visits for such injuries rose 60 percent in the previous decade among children and adolescents, the CDC study showed.

A separate 2007 study showed that the incidence of brain injury was highest in football and girls' soccer.

About 2,000 former National Football League players sued the league last year, alleging it concealed the risk of brain injury from players while marketing the ferocity of the game.

Concerns about a possible link between concussions and mental illnesses, such as depression, grew in the wake of the suicides of former NFL players Junior Seau, Ray Easterling and Dave Duerson in the last two years.

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Foundation Medicine, Inc. today announced an expansion of its Series B financing, raising an additional $13.5 million and bringing the total raised in the round to $56 million. The new investors include Bill Gates, Evan Jones and Yuri Milner.

Advances in understanding the human genome are having a dramatic impact on almost every area of medicine, said Bill Gates. Foundation Medicines approach in harnessing the power of genomic data to improve care for cancer patients could represent an extremely important step forward in improving routine cancer care. Im happy to be supporting this quite promising approach.

Expansion of Series B Supports Continued Growth

The proceeds from the expanded Series B financing will help Foundation Medicine continue to expand commercial operations and clinical trials, scale laboratory capabilities, and develop additional genomic profiling and information services.

Bill Gates, Evan Jones and Yuri Milner have each driven the widespread adoption of innovations that continue to impact the lives of millions of people, said Michael J. Pellini, M.D., president and chief executive officer, Foundation Medicine. This innovation is critically important in healthcare and medicine, which often lag behind in the adoption of new information technology. We are proud that these individuals support the mission of Foundation Medicine as we continue to bring advanced cancer genomics into everyday clinical practice.

Foundation Medicines first product, FoundationOne, is a genomic assay for all solid tumors that analyzes tumor DNA and provides a concise report to help physicians match patients with the targeted drugs or clinical trials best suited for their unique cancer. Launched in June 2012, FoundationOne has been ordered by more than 700 oncologists from 21 countries.

This second closing for the Series B financing follows the first closing completed on September 10, 2012. The first closing attracted a number of new investors, including public crossover funds Deerfield Management Company, L.P., Casdin Capital, Redmile Group and one undisclosed investor, and strategic investors Roche Venture Fund, WuXi Corporate Venture Fund and Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (LabCorp). These investors joined founding investor Third Rock Ventures and previous venture capital backers Google Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

Evan Jones to Join Board of Directors

Also, Foundation Medicine today announced that Evan Jones has been nominated to join Foundation Medicines Board of Directors. Mr. Jones is the managing member of jVen Capital, LLC and previously was the co-founder, chairman and CEO of Digene Corporation.

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After spending the first half of the season in the oldtimer hockey cellar, Medicine Chest has gone on a recent run, surging past the spiraling Tim Hortons squad 6-4 Sunday at Takhini Arena.

Mike Jim had two goals in the win, while Ron Billingsley had a goal and two assists to lead Medicine Chest to victory.

Gord Peterson and Erik von Flotow each had a goal and a helper in the win, while Blaine Demchuk rounded out the scoring.

Peter Johnston and league scoring leader Blayne Monahan each had a goal and assist to pace Tim Hortons. Lyle Dinn and Dave Bakica rounded out the scoring.

With the win, Medicine Chest now sits fifth with 22 points and a 9-10-4 record. Tim Hortons falls to sixth with 19 points and a 8-11-3 record.

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Shawn Kinsella and Adam Green each scored twice, and Rick Smith had four assists as current cellar-dwelling AON Flames bested third-place Kilrich 5-3.

Gregor Gabb added a goal and assist, while both Marcel Barrault and Mark Pike added two assists.

Scoring for Kilrich were Gary Boyd, Bruce Williams and Mike Knutson. Tim Turner Davis had two assists.

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