rosy3939
01-20-2005, 11:30 AM
Many people post on these boards about alternative methods of treatment for their psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. It has worked for many but because you belief so strongly in non-traditional methods of treatment it appears that there is a lack of support for NPF position in lobbing the congress for addition funds for the National Institute of Health. Perhaps is there was more information about what the NIH does and about the “Then National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine”, that it may change your minds about supporting the NPF and would consider coming to Capital Hill Day.
I know from reading the boards and reading the Capital Hill Day tread it does not appear that any of the regulars who practice Alternative or Non Western Traditional medicine are coming to Washington to lobby. Why?
Here is some information I took off the NIH web site. Please read it. We are going to be lobbing for you too, and we need your voice to be added to ours!
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Mission
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) is dedicated to exploring complementary and alternative healing practices in the context of rigorous science; training complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) researchers; and disseminating authoritative information to the public and professionals.
To fulfill its mission, the NCCAM supports a broad-based portfolio of research, research training, and educational grants and contracts, as well as various outreach mechanisms to disseminate information.
Research
NCCAM's primary responsibility is the conduct and support of basic and clinical research studies, using well-established tools of rigorous scientific design, conduct and oversight. These studies involve investigator-initiated projects as well as NCCAM-solicited applications. NCCAM supports definitive large, multi-center clinical trials; studies of entire systems of traditional and indigenous medicine (e.g., Native American medicine, Ayurvedic medicine, and traditional Chinese medicine); CAM Specialty Centers of Research; exploratory studies of frontier medicine; and studies of botanicals that are used by the American public to treat many diseases, such as arthritis, cancer, and depression. The Center carries out these activities independently and in collaboration with other NIH Institutes and
Centers, other government agencies, domestic and international research institutions, and industry.
Training
The NCCAM supports a full spectrum of predoctoral, postdoctoral, and career awards to develop a cadre of skilled investigators from both the CAM and conventional communities. The goal is to train individuals to apply the tools of exacting science to CAM systems and modalities. Institutional awards are available to support research fellows. Mentored Research Career Development Awards provide opportunities to clinicians and research scientists to develop skills for conducting rigorous research and to pursue careers as investigators. Limited support is also provided for research conferences.
Information Dissemination
Distributing scientifically based information on CAM research, practices, and findings is central to the NCCAM mission. This is accomplished through:
Operating the NCCAM Information Clearinghouse
Producing publications, such as fact sheets and the NCCAM newsletter
Offering a Web site at nccam.nih.gov
Sponsoring town meetings, conferences, and other outreach activities
Exhibiting at events around the United States and the world
Co-sponsoring, with the National Library of Medicine, the CAM on PubMed database, located at nlm.nih.gov/nccam/camonpubmed.html
Maintaining the Complementary and Alternative Medicine subfile of the Combined Health Information Database (CHID) at chid.nih.gov
All the information was taken from NIH website.
We must become the change we want to see.
- Mahatma Gandhi
I know from reading the boards and reading the Capital Hill Day tread it does not appear that any of the regulars who practice Alternative or Non Western Traditional medicine are coming to Washington to lobby. Why?
Here is some information I took off the NIH web site. Please read it. We are going to be lobbing for you too, and we need your voice to be added to ours!
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Mission
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) is dedicated to exploring complementary and alternative healing practices in the context of rigorous science; training complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) researchers; and disseminating authoritative information to the public and professionals.
To fulfill its mission, the NCCAM supports a broad-based portfolio of research, research training, and educational grants and contracts, as well as various outreach mechanisms to disseminate information.
Research
NCCAM's primary responsibility is the conduct and support of basic and clinical research studies, using well-established tools of rigorous scientific design, conduct and oversight. These studies involve investigator-initiated projects as well as NCCAM-solicited applications. NCCAM supports definitive large, multi-center clinical trials; studies of entire systems of traditional and indigenous medicine (e.g., Native American medicine, Ayurvedic medicine, and traditional Chinese medicine); CAM Specialty Centers of Research; exploratory studies of frontier medicine; and studies of botanicals that are used by the American public to treat many diseases, such as arthritis, cancer, and depression. The Center carries out these activities independently and in collaboration with other NIH Institutes and
Centers, other government agencies, domestic and international research institutions, and industry.
Training
The NCCAM supports a full spectrum of predoctoral, postdoctoral, and career awards to develop a cadre of skilled investigators from both the CAM and conventional communities. The goal is to train individuals to apply the tools of exacting science to CAM systems and modalities. Institutional awards are available to support research fellows. Mentored Research Career Development Awards provide opportunities to clinicians and research scientists to develop skills for conducting rigorous research and to pursue careers as investigators. Limited support is also provided for research conferences.
Information Dissemination
Distributing scientifically based information on CAM research, practices, and findings is central to the NCCAM mission. This is accomplished through:
Operating the NCCAM Information Clearinghouse
Producing publications, such as fact sheets and the NCCAM newsletter
Offering a Web site at nccam.nih.gov
Sponsoring town meetings, conferences, and other outreach activities
Exhibiting at events around the United States and the world
Co-sponsoring, with the National Library of Medicine, the CAM on PubMed database, located at nlm.nih.gov/nccam/camonpubmed.html
Maintaining the Complementary and Alternative Medicine subfile of the Combined Health Information Database (CHID) at chid.nih.gov
All the information was taken from NIH website.
We must become the change we want to see.
- Mahatma Gandhi