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The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) at the National Institutes of Health welcomes four new members to the National Advisory Council for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. The council serves as the principal advisory body to NCCAM, the lead federal agency for research on complementary and integrative medicine.
“Millions of older Americans take nutritional supplements to protect their sight without clear guidance regarding benefit and risk,” said NEI director Paul A. Sieving, M.D., Ph.D. “This study clarifies the role of supplements in helping prevent advanced AMD, an incurable, common, and devastating disease that robs older people of their sight and independence.”
Results from the chelation arm of the Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy (TACT) were published in the March 27, 2013, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Director Gary H. Gibbons, M.D.
Preliminary results from the vitamin component of the Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy (TACT) were released during the American College of Cardiology’s 2013 Scientific Sessions.
What: David G.I. Kingston, Ph.D., University Distinguished Professor, Director, Virginia Tech Center for Drug Discovery, Department of Chemistry at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, will be the featured speaker for the fourth annual Stephen E. Straus Distinguished Lecture in the Science of Complementary Health Therapies. Dr. Kingston’s lecture is entitled Natural Products: Drugs and Medicines for All Reasons and All Seasons.
Funds, totaling approximately $11.3 million, will support the first year of the Health Care Systems (HCS) Research Collaboratory, which will engage health care systems as research partners in conducting large-scale clinical studies. The funds are managed through the Common Fund at the National Institutes of Health.
A video featuring research on how yoga works, the safety of yoga and whether yoga can help treat certain health problems is being released.
Catherine Bushnell, Ph.D., an internationally recognized pain and neuroscience researcher, has been appointed scientific director of a new research program focusing on the role of the brain in perceiving, modifying, and managing pain.
The National Institutes of Health Pain Consortium has selected 11 health professional schools as designated Centers of Excellence in Pain Education.
A new series of monthly health tips, Time to Talk Tips, will provide consumers with easy-to-read information on complementary health practices. The effort is managed by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) at the National Institutes of Health.
The National Institutes of Health has created a new website to help people learn more about clinical trials, why they matter, and how to participate.
The council serves as the principal advisory body to NCCAM.