Recent Photos from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)
2008 Photos
NCCAM's "Time To Talk" campaign, launched in June 2008, encourages patients and their health care providers to openly discuss the use of complementary and alternative medicine, to help ensure safe and coordinated care. Free toolkits (as pictured) are available. (Photo copyright Matt Fletcher)
Massage therapy appeared to ease pain and improve mood in the short term in a group of advanced cancer patients, according to findings from an NCCAM-funded study in 2008. The study, led by a University of Colorado Denver team at 15 U.S. hospices, found benefit also, to a lesser degree, from simple touch. (Photo copyright Bob Stockfield)
2007 Photos
Participants discuss issues related to NCCAM and complementary
and alternative medicine at an “NCCAM Stakeholder Dialogue” meeting,
held at NIH in June 2007.
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