Research Funding in Complementary Medicine

Research funding for palliative medicine.

BACKGROUND Medical care for seriously ill patients has been acknowledged to be inadequate and multiple reports have called for increased investment in palliative medicine research. OBJECTIVE To identify funding sources of palliative medicine research published form 2003-2005 and to examine National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding of palliative medicine research from 2001-2005. METHODS We...

Complementary Medicine Research Unit

One in ten of the UK population use complementary medicine each year and 50% are lifetime users. The recent House of Lords’ Report has clearly defined a public need for further research into both safety and efficacy. The Department of Health research capacity building initiative is one of the first main responses to the Select Committee’s recommendations. We know that within this emerging field...

Complementary Medicine Research in NSW

Funding strategies for emergency medicine research.

The importance of adequate funding for sustaining research efforts cannot be overemphasized. This article addresses funding strategies for emergency physicians, including the necessity of establishing a research track record, developing a well-written grant proposal, and anticipating the grant review process. Funding sources are reviewed with an emphasis on federal institute support and private...

Progress in Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research

Integrative Medicine at Yale and the Yale Center for Continuing Medical Education (CME) sponsored the Yale Research Symposium on Complementary and Integrative Medicine in March 2010 at the university's School of Medicine. Delivering the keynote address, Dr. Josephine P. Briggs, Director of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) at the National Institutes of Healt...