Announcements  Director's Message from Helene M. Langevin, M.D. June 10, 2024 I am proud of the progress that the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) has made, taking distinct steps toward supporting the health of the whole person. Not only did we prioritize whole person health within NCCIH by incorporating it into our strategic plan, but we have also taken the lead in engaging colleagues within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and stakeholders outside of NIH to encourage a wider conversation on integrating a whole person approach into research. Additionally, we defined a framework for discussion and fostered the necessary work to develop research methods that support increasingly complex studies on whole person health. |  Lanay M. Mudd, Ph.D.
June 5, 2024
I'm pleased to announce that the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health has reissued a request for applications to support virtual resource centers that will foster institutional partnerships and provide resources to support research activities and training for faculty who work at partnering U.S. domestic complementary and integrative health institutions. NCCIH is hosting a technical assistance and teaming webinar for REsearch Across Complementary and Integrative Health Institutions (REACH) Virtual Resource Centers (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) on June 18, 2024, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. ET. This event will include an overview of the funding opportunity and a teaming activity to provide interested applicants with the opportunity to network with potential complementary and integrative health institution partners. Teaming will be essential since the application must include letters of support from at least three accredited complementary and integrative health clinical institutions that agree to partner with REACH. Please register to attend the webinar. |  A new clinical trial tested various ways of delivering a mobile app–based mindfulness intervention for individuals who had symptoms of depression after being treated in an intensive care unit (ICU) for a critical illness. The study showed that the best version of the intervention in terms of effects on psychological distress symptoms, adherence, and feasibility was a version that was fully app based. The study, recently published in JAMA Internal Medicine, was led by scientists at Duke University, Oregon Health & Science University, and University of Colorado (Aurora) and was partially funded by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health. |  A new study suggests that partnering with a trained psychiatric service dog helps lower the severity of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, anxiety, and depression in adults with military-related PTSD. The study, which was recently published in JAMA Network Open, was led by scientists from the University of Arizona, Indiana University School of Medicine, and Roudebush Veterans Affairs Medical Center. The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health partially funded the research. |  May 2024 Clinical Digest Many older adults turn to complementary and integrative health approaches, often as a reflection of a healthy self-empowered approach to well-being. Natural products often sold as dietary supplements are frequently used by many older people for various reasons despite safety concerns or a lack of evidence to support their use. Although there is a widespread public perception that the botanical and traditional agents included in dietary supplements can be viewed as safe, these products can contain pharmacologically active compounds and have associated dangers. | Resources for Researchers Upcoming Events June 18, 2024, 2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. ET; Virtual This webinar will include an overview of the REsearch Across Complementary and Integrative Health Institutions (REACH) Virtual Resource Centers (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) funding opportunity from the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH). The first portion of the webinar is the technical assistance portion of the event. It will include information on the goals and purpose of the request for applications (RFA) as well as review considerations. There will be a questions and answers opportunity thereafter. Following the technical webinar will be ateaming activity opportunity to engage and provide potential applicants with an opportunity to network with potential complementary and integrative health institution partners. Register now.  June 28, 2024, 10:00 a.m.-12:05 p.m. ET; Virtual This meeting will provide opportunities to share advances across three National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded force-based manipulation research networks, promote collaboration, and avoid duplication of network efforts. The meeting's open session will featured updates from the trans-network scientific working groups and a keynote presentation by Valeria Vásquez, Ph.D., associate professor at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston. Register now.
|  July 29, 2024, 1:30 p.m.-2:45 p.m. ET; NIH Videocast A promising area of medical research is the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to analyze large sets of data in order to gain better understanding of the development of disease (pathogenesis) and the restoration of health (salutogenesis). Dr. Aaron Lee is co-principal investigator on the AI-READI project, funded through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Common Fund's "Bridge to Artificial Intelligence" (Bridge2AI) program. AI-READI is generating high-quality, multimodal, and ethically sourced data that will be ready for AI/ML methods to study salutogenesis in the context of type 2 diabetes. In addition to describing AI-READI, Dr. Lee will also discuss researching the health of the whole person, not just separate organs or body systems, and AI/ML advances from ophthalmology. The lecture is part of NCCIH's Integrative Medicine Research Lecture Series, which provides overviews of the current state of research and practice involving complementary health approaches and explores perspectives on integrative health. | |
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