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Press Releases 2008
- 08/12/2008
Key Gaps Remain in Understanding Health Effects of Vitamin D (Office of the Dietary Supplements)
An in-depth review of current research on the health effects of vitamin D is being published as the proceedings of the NIH conference, "Vitamin D and Health in the 21st Century: An Update", which will appear in an August 2008 supplement to the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. - 06/06/2008
Time To Talk About CAM
NCCAM has launched Time to Talk, an educational campaign to encourage patients and their health care providers to openly discuss the use of CAM. - 05/21/08
Martin H. Goldrosen, Ph.D., Named Director of NCCAM's Division of Extramural Activities
Martin H. Goldrosen, Ph.D., was recently appointed director of the Division of Extramural Activities at the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, part of the National Institutes of Health. - 02/08/2008
NIH Director's Statement: Violence Against Researchers Using Animals
On February 5th an incendiary device ignited at the front door of the home of Dr. Edythe London, an NIH–supported senior scientist and professor in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. This domestic terrorist act against a scientist who has dedicated 30 years of her life to medical research is intolerable. - 02/01/2008
NCCAM's Advisory Council Welcomes Six New Members
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) welcomes six 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 complementary and alternative medicine research and a component of the National Institutes of Health. - 01/24/2008
Josephine P. Briggs, M.D., Named Director of NIH's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
NIH Director, Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., has named Josephine P. Briggs, M.D., to be the director of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. An accomplished researcher and physician, Dr. Briggs brings a focus on translational research to the study of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) to help build a fuller understanding of the usefulness and safety of CAM practices that nearly two-thirds of the American public uses.