Dietary Supplements Marketed for Weight Loss, Bodybuilding, and Sexual Enhancement
Your patients may ask you about dietary supplements for losing weight, bodybuilding, or sexual enhancement. Although patients may be tempted by the “quick fix” claims of these products, which are available in supermarkets, pharmacies, health food stores, and on the Internet, most of these products haven’t been proven safe or effective. Safety concerns about natural products include the possibility of drug interactions, direct toxicities, and contamination of supplements with active pharmaceutical agents. (Source: NCCAM Featured Content)
Source: NCCAM Featured Content - January 20, 2018 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: NCCIH Source Type: news
Updates on NCCIH Clinical Trials Among Talks To Be Streamed at Feb. 9 Advisory Council Meeting
On Friday, February 9, the National Advisory Council for Complementary and Integrative Health (NACCIH) will hold its second meeting of Fiscal Year 2018. NCCIH grantees, potential applicants, and others may find it useful to hear updates on the Center’s activities, policies, and funding priorities. We will provide a livestream of the meeting’s open session via NIH Videocast from 10:00 a.m. to 3:05 p.m. ET. (Source: NCCAM Featured Content)
Source: NCCAM Featured Content - January 19, 2018 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Partap Khalsa, D.C., Ph.D. Source Type: news
Funding Opportunity for Research on Biological Signatures of Gut-Derived Metabolites
Did our parents have the right idea when they told us to eat more fruits and vegetables? Maybe so! Evidence has begun to build that the foods we eat (including the natural compounds in fruits and veggies), the flora in our digestive systems, and our basic biological functions all intersect to influence our overall health. Recently, NCCIH released a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA),Biological Signatures of Diet-Derived Microbial Metabolites, for projects to study several aspects of this question. (Source: NCCAM Featured Content)
Source: NCCAM Featured Content - January 10, 2018 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: D. Craig Hopp, Ph.D. Source Type: news
FDA Proposes New Policy to Target Certain Homeopathic Drugs
On December 18, 2017 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a new proposed policy targeting unapproved drug products labeled as homeopathic that have the greatest potential to cause risk to patients. According to the FDA ’s Web site, the new approach aims to protect consumers who choose to use homeopathic products, by updating the FDA’s existing policy to better address situations where homeopathic treatments are being marketed for serious diseases and/or conditions but where the products have not been shown to offer clinical benefits. (Source: NCCAM Featured Content)
Source: NCCAM Featured Content - December 19, 2017 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: NCCIH Source Type: news
6 Things To Know About Complementary Health Approaches for Seasonal Affective Disorder
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a type of depression that comes and goes with the seasons, typically starting in the late fall and early winter and going away during the spring and summer. To be diagnosed with SAD, people must meet full criteria for major depression coinciding with specific seasons (appearing in the winter or summer months) for at least 2 years. Symptoms of the winter pattern of SAD include having low energy, hypersomnia, overeating, weight gain, craving for carbohydrates, social withdrawal (feel like “hibernating”). (Source: NCCAM Featured Content)
Source: NCCAM Featured Content - December 19, 2017 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: NCCIH Source Type: news
Complementary Health Approaches for Seasonal Affective Disorder
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), a type of depression that comes and goes with the seasons, typically starts in the late fall and early winter and goes away during the spring and summer. Depressive episodes linked to the summer can occur, but are much less common than winter episodes of SAD. To be diagnosed with SAD, people must meet full criteria for major depression coinciding with specific seasons for at least 2 years. Some of the symptoms of the winter pattern of SAD include having low energy, overeating, craving carbohydrates, and social withdrawal. (Source: NCCAM Featured Content)
Source: NCCAM Featured Content - December 19, 2017 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: NCCIH Source Type: news
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Source: NCCAM Featured Content - December 14, 2017 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: NCCIH Source Type: news
FTC Sending Refund Checks Totaling More Than $8 Million to Consumers Who Bought Deceptively Marketed Weight-loss Supplements
FTC mails refund checks to people who bought weight-loss supplements that were deceptively marketed using illegal spam email, baseless weight-loss claims, and fake celebrity endorsements. (Source: NCCAM Featured Content)
Source: NCCAM Featured Content - December 12, 2017 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: NCCIH Source Type: news
Supplement Sellers Settle FTC, State of Maine False Advertising Charges
Health Research Laboratories settle FTC and Maine charges company deceived consumers about products. (Source: NCCAM Featured Content)
Source: NCCAM Featured Content - December 12, 2017 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: NCCIH Source Type: news
Hello From NCCIH's New Leadership Team
Hello from NCCIH’s new leadership team! In this message,Acting Director David Shurtleff andActing Deputy Director Wendy Weber introduce themselves and highlight NCCIH’s research interests and resources. (Source: NCCAM Featured Content)
Source: NCCAM Featured Content - December 7, 2017 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: NCCIH Research Blog Team Source Type: news
Study Identifies a Novel Mechanism by Which Cells May Detect a Variety of Sensations
Study build on earlier NCCIH-funded research on the Piezo2 protein and Piezo2 gene (the gene guides the production of different forms of the protein, which may play roles in distinguishing sensations). (Source: NCCAM Featured Content)
Source: NCCAM Featured Content - December 5, 2017 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: NCCIH Source Type: news
Grant Funding Available for Behavioral Interventions for Prevention of Opioid Use Disorder and as an Adjunct to Medication-Assisted Treatment
More than 90 Americans die every day after overdosing on opioids. The misuse of and addiction to opioids—including prescription pain relievers, heroin, and fentanyl—is a public health epidemic in the U.S. Combatting the opioid crisis requires sustained efforts from researchers, health professionals, and community members to impleme nt evidence-based prevention and treatment strategies and to evaluate the effectiveness of new approaches. (Source: NCCAM Featured Content)
Source: NCCAM Featured Content - November 30, 2017 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Robin Boineau, M.D. Source Type: news
Complementary Health Approaches for Travelers
Do any complementary health approaches help for travel-related health issues? Find out here. (Source: NCCAM Featured Content)
Source: NCCAM Featured Content - November 29, 2017 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: NCCIH Source Type: news
Internet Marketers of Dietary Supplement and Skincare Products Banned from Deceptive Advertising and Billing Practices
A network of online marketers and the three people behind it have settled FTC charges that they sold weight-loss, muscle-building, and wrinkle-reduction products to consumers using unsubstantiated health claims, fake magazine and news sites, bogus celebrity endorsements, and phony consumer testimonials. (Source: NCCAM Featured Content)
Source: NCCAM Featured Content - November 27, 2017 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: NCCIH Source Type: news
Leaving the Center in Good Hands
In this blog post, Dr. Josephine Briggs reviews her time as Director of NCCIH and discusses the Center’s focus on pain research. (Source: NCCAM Featured Content)
Source: NCCAM Featured Content - November 27, 2017 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Josephine P. Briggs, M.D. Source Type: news
