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Alternative or integrative therapies -- from homeopathy and nutritional counseling to yoga and deep breathing -- can enhance conventional Western medicine, explains Alternative or integrative therapies -- from homeopathy and nutritional counseling to yoga and deep breathing -- can enhance conventional Western medicine, explains Caitlin Sgarlat Deluca, DO Caitlin Sgarlat Deluca, DO, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Upstate who works in the recently created Division of Pediatric Rheumatology and Integrative Medicine in the Upstate Golisano Children‘s Hospital. The marriage of the two approaches to medicine aims to treat the whole child, says Sgarlat Deluca, who tells how nutritional supplements or acupuncture, for example, helps the arthritis and lupus patients she often sees as a pediatric rheumatologist., an assistant professor of pediatrics at Upstate who works in the recently created Division of Pediatric Rheumatology and Integrative Medicine in the Upstate Golisano Children‘s Hospital. The marriage