In This Issue: Complementary and Integrative Health for Older Adults

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April 28, 2015

news, resources, and events
An elderly man and woman sit at a table next to a window talking, with mugs on the table before them. Copyright Yuri Arcurs

Announcements

NCCIH Clinical Digest: Complementary and Integrative Health for Older Adults

Many older adults are turning 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 the associated dangers.

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RFI: Soliciting Input for the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health’s New Strategic Plan - Responses will be accepted until May 18, 2015.

NIH recently announced the launch of a new Web portal on rigor and reproducibility - with so much news highlighting the importance of unbiased experiments and reproducible results, NIH created this portal to serve as a resource on NIH efforts under way to enhance rigor and reproducibility in scientific research. View the portal: http://www.nih.gov/science/reproducibility/index.htm.

New Pain Page! Information for Consumers, Health Professionals, and Researchers

Resources for Researchers

Bullet New Funding Opportunities:
-Administrative Supplements for Common Basic Sociobehavioral Mechanisms and Processes that Facilitate or Impede Self-Management of Chronic Conditions (Admin Supp) (NOT-OD-15-094)

Bullet All Grants and Funding

Upcoming Events

Twitter Chat on Mind and Body Approaches and Older Adults
Date: April 29, 2015

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Liver Injury from Herbal and Dietary Supplements Workshop
Date: May 4, 2015
Location: Lister Hill Auditorium, NIH Campus

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The Changing Landscape of Brainstem Modulation of Chronic Pain: What Goes Up Must Come Down
Date: May 5, 2015
Speaker: Donna Hammond, Ph.D.

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When Experts Disagree: The Art of Medical Decision Making
Date: May 11, 2015
Location: Masur Auditorium, Building 10, NIH Campus; Bethesda, MD Videocast: The lecture will be streamed live online at videocast.nih.gov.

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National SBIR/STTR Conference
Date: June 15, 2015
Location: Gaylord Hotel and Conference Center, Washington DC National Harbor

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