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The following new NCCAM publications are available on the Web and from the NCCAM Clearinghouse:
Members of the NIH community and the public gathered over a common interest in yoga during NIH's first-ever Yoga Week, held May 19–23, 2008. Highlighting the science and practice of yoga and offering free classes, lectures, and practices (as pictured above), the event was cosponsored by NCCAM. Speakers included Sat Bir S. Khalsa, Ph.D., an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and an associate neuroscientist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, who is studying "Neuroendocrine Mechanisms in Yoga Treatment of Insomnia" under an NCCAM grant.
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Are you interested in reading recent research-based articles on your topic(s) of interest, including CAM? The NIH Public Access Policy, formerly a voluntary policy and now a law, is designed to give the public access to such articles and to advance science and human health.
As of April 7, 2008, all NIH-funded investigators must submit to one database—PubMed Central—all final, peer-reviewed manuscripts of studies that are based on NIH funding and accepted for publication. They must also cite their PubMed Central references in all applications, proposals, and progress reports to NIH on or after May 25, 2008.
Interested readers, including the public, can access these articles at PubMed Central (www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov) and through other scientific and medical databases. To read more about the new Public Access Policy, go to publicaccess.nih.gov.
What happens when you submit an application for funding to NIH? How does one develop an effective grant application in the first place? Experts from NIH and NCCAM addressed these and other questions at the "NCCAM Grantsmanship Workshop." This 3-day event, held June 3–5, 2008, in Rockville, Maryland, is available for viewing at no charge. You must have a copy of RealPlayer to view it.
At the NCCAM Grantsmanship Workshop, Richard Nahin, Ph.D., NCCAM (left), met with Jun Mao, M.D., University of Pennsylvania Health System.
NCCAM's Complementary and Integrative Medicine Consult Service at the NIH Clinical Center has inaugurated a new lecture series in Bethesda, Maryland. The lectures are designed for Clinical Center staff to advance the understanding of integrating CAM approaches into the research and practice of medicine. Upcoming topics, available also for the local interested professional community, are posted online.
On May 28, 2008, leaders from more than 20 health professional and consumer organizations gathered in Washington, D.C., with NCCAM Director Josephine Briggs for a Stakeholder Roundtable Discussion, part of Dr. Briggs's listening tour. At center in the photo is Vernell DeWitty, Ph.D., R.N., American Association of Colleges of Nursing. To her left are Bonnie Hillsberg, D.C., M.H.A., M.Ed., Association of Clinicians for the Underserved, and Bernice Hutchinson, National Association of State Units on Aging.
