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ISCMR
NEWSFLASH
1) ISCMR Membership Benefit
Announcement
50% reduction offer for ISCMR
Members - Research in Complementary Medicine Journal
ISCMR is pleased to announce that Karger are offering ISCMR
members a 50% discount rate for 2006, for their journal, Research in
Complementary Medicine (formerly, Research in Complementary and
Classical Natural Medicine). For further information regarding Karger
offer, please see click
here.
More information regarding journal subscription benefits for ISCMR
members, please visit
http://www.iscmr.org/members/memberbenefits.php
2) ISCMR Qualitative Workshop Report
On September 19th, 2005, ISCMR hosted a Qualitative Workshop.
To view the workshop report, please visit http://www.iscmr.org/pdf/summary_report_qualitative_meeting_exeter_2005.pdf
3) EURICAM Releases October Newsletter
EURICAM has released its October newsletter
www.iscmr.org/pdf/EURICAMNewsOctober2005.pdf
and proposal
www.iscmr.org/pdf/EURICAMproposalOct2005.doc
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4) NCCAM Announces Funding of Five CAM
Research Centres
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)
announces funding of three centers of excellence and two international
centers for the study of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).
With these new awards NCCAM, a component of the National Institutes of
Health (NIH), continues to enhance CAM research capacity by funding
centers at leading U.S. institutions and by establishing new global
partnerships.
Centers of Excellence for Research on CAM
The three new Centers of Excellence provide 5 years of support for
experienced researchers at some of the Nation's leading universities.
These researchers apply cutting-edge technologies to identify the
potential benefits and underlying mechanisms of CAM practices. The
three new centers are:
- Center for Arthritis and Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Center for Chinese Herbal Therapy
- Center for Mechanisms Underlying Millimeter Wave Therapy
International Centers for Research on CAM
The International Centers for Research on CAM are the outgrowth of
planning grants awarded by NCCAM to 11 international teams in 2003.
The
recipients of these international centers grants will now carry out
research on CAM and traditional medicine practices in countries where
the practices are indigenous. These partnerships between researchers
in U.S. and foreign institutions will address whether the traditional
practices can aid in health care locally and globally and build CAM
research capacity internationally. Co-funders for these centers
include NIH's Office of Dietary Supplements, Office of AIDS Research,
and Fogarty International Center. In addition, the National Cancer
Institute will fund a third international center.
The two NCCAM recipients are:
- Functional Bowel Disorders in Chinese Medicine
- The International Center for Indigenous Phytotherapy Studies:
HIV/AIDS, Secondary Infections and Immune Modulation
Also, the National Cancer Institute will fund the International Center of Traditional Chinese Medicine for Cancer
For more information on these research centres, please view the NIH press release
at:
http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/oct2005/nccam-14.htm
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