Herb-Drug Interactions--Director's Message and Other Resources

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What We Don't Know About Supplement-Drug Interactions (Message from the Director)

Many Americans use dietary supplements as part of their daily health regimen. While there has been research that suggests health benefits of some dietary supplements, there is also a concern about the safety of some products, including the potential for interactions with drugs.

 

Read more at https://nccih.nih.gov/about/offices/od/herb-drug.

 

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Herb-Drug Interactions

This month, NCCIH featured the important safety issue of interactions between herbs and drugs. Although there is a widespread public perception that herbs and botanical products in dietary supplements are safe, interactions may occur that are of clinical concern.

 

Several resources are available on this topic, including:  Clinical Digest, Tips, an interactive module and a Director's Message.

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New CME/CEU Videolecture Available - Introduction to Tranceformation: Hypnosis in Brain and Body

One-hour lecture presented by Dr. David Spiegel.


Press Release: NIH framework points the way forward for building national, large-scale research cohort, a key component of the President’s Precision Medicine Initiative


Resources for Researchers

Interagency Modeling and Analysis Group (IMAG) Multiscale Modeling U01 Funding Opportunity

October 6, 2015 at 2:30 p.m.; Webinar

 

NIH Grants Seminar

 

NIH Regional Seminar on Program Funding and Grants Administration

October 14-16, 2015; San Diego, CA

 


Upcoming Events

57th Meeting of the National Advisory Council for Complementary and Integrative Health

October 2, 2015; Bethesda, MD

 

Towards Psychobiotics: The Microbiome as a Key Regulator of Brain and Behavior

October 6, 2015; Bethesda, MD or Webinar

 

Interagency Modeling and Analysis Group (IMAG) Multiscale Modeling U01 Funding Opportunity

October 6, 2015 at 2:30 p.m.; Webinar

 

Dynamic Regulation of Spatial Aspects of Pain (Pain Seminar Series)

October 7, 2015; Bethesda, MD