national center for complementary and alternative medicine five-year strategic plan 2001–2005

Appendix VIII Strategic Planning Process Appendix IX National Advisory Council for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Prefac ...

hopes of living long and well, free of disease and disability. Yet many will experience chronic and degenerative diseases that c ...

improve their health and well-being and to relieve symptoms associated with chronic or terminal ill- nesses or the side effects ...

Resolving the Issues Despite their potential, untested CAM therapies may have unintended negative consequences.^8 They may inter ...

nostic and prevention modalities, disciplines and systems.” Congress has expressed growing support for NCCAM’s mission by provid ...

sion, research conducted in collaboration with the National Institute of Mental Health and the Office of Dietary Supplements; Gi ...

of St. John‘s wort that ameliorate depression may contribute to the knowledge base of conventional biomedical researchers and in ...

CAM. With this information, they may knowl- edgeably guide and refer patients toward safe and effective CAM applications and pra ...

Our Vision NCCAM will advance research to yield insights and tools derived from complementary and alternative medicine to benefi ...

Sponsor interdisciplinary conferences to stimu- late broad-based research. Assist extramural CAM researchers and practi- tioner ...

Initiate quality research training programs. Increase the number of trainees from under- represented populations. Establish an ...

Objectives: Sponsor national meetings, consensus confer- ences, and workshops on validated CAM thera- pies to enable practition ...

assigned by Ernst,E. et al. (Complementary medi- cine—a definition. Br J Gen Pract. 1995;45:506), and adopted in a slightly alte ...

PART IV APPENDIX I MAJOR DOMAINS OF COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE Complementary and alternative healthcare and medical ...

III. Biologically Based Therapies—This cate- gory of CAM includes natural and biologically based practices, interventions, and p ...

June 1993 OAM formally established under the National Insti- tutes of Health Revitalization Act of 1993 (P.L.103–43) to facilita ...

October 1999 Stephen E. Straus, MD, appointed first Director, NCCAM. APPENDIX III STEPHEN E.STRAUS, MD, NCCAM DIRECTOR Biographi ...

groups for comparison: (1)true acupuncture group, (2)sham acupuncture group, and (3)education and attention control group. Study ...

domized controlled, single-blinded, Phase II trial investigating whether transcendental meditation will reduce cardiac events in ...

MENTAL HEALTH A Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial of a Stan- dardized Extract of Hypericum perforatum in Major Depressive Disord ...