Civil War Plant Medicines Inhibit Multidrug-Resistant Wound Bacteria
Plants recommended as medicines during the Civil War inhibit dangerous antibiotic-resistant wound bacteria (Source: NCCAM Featured Content)
Source: NCCAM Featured Content - May 29, 2019 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: NCCIH Source Type: news

Perspectives on Pain Research
In this post, NCCIH director Dr. Helene Langevin discusses NCCIH’s multiple research initiatives and collaborations to explore new nondrug options to treat and manage pain. (Source: NCCAM Featured Content)
Source: NCCAM Featured Content - May 14, 2019 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: NCCIH Source Type: news

Workshop Summary Outlines Current Landscape and Future Prospects for Cannabis Research
NCCIH Deputy Director Dr. David Shurtleff discusses a recent NCCIH-sponsored symposium on cannabinoid research in this blog post. (Source: NCCAM Featured Content)
Source: NCCAM Featured Content - May 10, 2019 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: David Shurtleff, Ph.D. Source Type: news

June 7th Advisory Council Meeting To Highlight High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program
Upcoming National Advisory Council for Complementary and Integrative Health (NACCIH) meeting on Friday, June 7, 2019. Hear about our activities, policies, and funding priorities. (Source: NCCAM Featured Content)
Source: NCCAM Featured Content - May 7, 2019 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Partap S. Khalsa, D.C., Ph.D. Source Type: news

Which Mentored K Award Mechanism Is Right For Me?
Understanding the different Career Development Mechanisms, or K awards, and selecting the right funding opportunity announcement (FOA) to fit your science can be a confusing process. The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) participates in four types of mentored K awards for early-stage investigators, and there are three versions of each type to choose from, depending on the study design you propose to use. The NCCIHtraining webpage describes the K awards we support and provides links to each FOA. (Source: NCCAM Featured Content)
Source: NCCAM Featured Content - April 26, 2019 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Lanay Mudd, Ph.D. Source Type: news

Geniux Dietary Supplement Sellers Barred from Unsupported Cognitive Improvement Claims
Twelve corporate and four individual defendants have settled Federal Trade Commission charges that they deceptively marketed “cognitive improvement” supplements. (Source: NCCAM Featured Content)
Source: NCCAM Featured Content - April 12, 2019 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: NCCIH Source Type: news

Kingston Pharma, LLC RECALLS " DG ™/health NATURALS baby Cough Syrup + Mucus” Because of Possible Health Risk
Kingston Pharma, LLC recalls Lot KL180157 of its 2-fluid ounce (59 mL) bottles of DG ™/health NATURALS baby Cough Syrup + Mucus” because it has the potential to be contaminated with Bacillus cereus/ Bacillus circulans. (Source: NCCAM Featured Content)
Source: NCCAM Featured Content - March 25, 2019 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: NCCIH Source Type: news

Modeled Manual Therapy May Protect Against Repetitive Motion Pain, Rat Study Suggests
Results of a recently published rat study suggest that 3 weeks of modeled manual therapy (MMT) largely prevented the physiological processes and pain that often accompany a repetitive motion injury. (Source: NCCAM Featured Content)
Source: NCCAM Featured Content - March 21, 2019 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: NCCIH Source Type: news

FTC & FDA issue warning letters to supplement sellers
Ads abound for products that claim to treat or prevent serious health conditions. Unfortunately, these products often are unproven and useless. Sometimes the ads even make false promises for Alzheimer ’s disease and dementia – conditions for which science has no cure. (Source: NCCAM Featured Content)
Source: NCCAM Featured Content - March 20, 2019 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: NCCIH Source Type: news

NCCIH Activities at the 2019 American Pain Society (APS) Scientific Meeting
In this blog post Dr. Emmeline Edwards discusses planned NCCIH activities around the 2019 American Pain Society Scientific Meeting In Milwaukee, WI between April 3& April 6, 2019. (Source: NCCAM Featured Content)
Source: NCCAM Featured Content - March 19, 2019 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Emmeline Edwards, Ph.D. Source Type: news

Media Advisory: NIH to host a spring lecture series on the gut microbiome
“Microbes in Our Gut: Emerging Insights on Health and Disease” is the theme of three special lectures in spring 2019 sponsored by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), part of the National Institutes of Health. (Source: NCCAM Featured Content)
Source: NCCAM Featured Content - March 8, 2019 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: NCCIH Source Type: news

NCCIH Lecture Series Will Explore Gut Microbiome
This blog post announces NCCIH’s Integrative Medicine Research Lecture Series. Dr. Sean Brady kicks it off on March 14, 2019, at 11:00 a.m. with a talk on “Microbes in Our Gut: Emerging Insights on Health and Disease” on the NIH campus in Bethesda, MD. Other speakers follow May 9 and June 10. (Source: NCCAM Featured Content)
Source: NCCAM Featured Content - March 5, 2019 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: NCCIH Blog Team Source Type: news

Join Us in April for an NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research Workshop: The Science of Interoception and Its Roles in Nervous System Disorders
In this blog post, Dr. Wen Chen invites readers to attend the inaugural NIH workshop on “The Science of Interoception and Its Roles in Nervous System Disorders” on April 16 and 17, 2019, on the NIH Campus in Bethesda, Maryland. (Source: NCCAM Featured Content)
Source: NCCAM Featured Content - March 4, 2019 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Wen Chen, Ph.D. Source Type: news

Talking to NCCIH Program Staff Can Be Beneficial
In this blog post, NCCIH’s outreach communications program manager Anita McRae-Williams discusses how to engage with Division of Extramural Research (DER) program staff. (Source: NCCAM Featured Content)
Source: NCCAM Featured Content - February 27, 2019 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Anita McRae-Williams, M.A. Source Type: news