National Institutes of Health
NUNM Receives $3.275 Million NIH Research Grant
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has renewed the National University of Natural Medicine’s (NUNM) Helfgott Research Institute grant to continue its Building Research Across Interdisciplinary Gaps (BRIDG) Clinical Research Training Program for another five years. The grant renewal will be approximately $3.275 million over its five-year cycle. NIH first funded the program in 2015. ...
High Lead Levels During Pregnancy Linked to Child Obesity
Children born to women who have high blood levels of lead are more likely be overweight or obese, compared to those whose mothers have low levels of lead in their blood, according to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Health Resources and Services Administration. The study was conducted by Xiaobin ...
Beyond Celiac & SSCD Announce Early Career Research Award in the Field of Celiac Disease
Beyond Celiac has announced the creation of the Society for the Study of Celiac Disease – Beyond Celiac Early Career Research Award, a joint venture to attract exceptionally promising early career academic investigators to the field of celiac disease research. The award will provide a clear and bold opportunity to expand the scope of research ...
NIH Awards $1M Clinical Research Grant to NUNM, OSU & Pacific NW National Lab
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), through the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), awarded $1 million to Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University (OSU); Helfgott Research Institute at National University of Natural Medicine (NUNM); and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), a U.S. Department of Energy research laboratory in Richland, WA, for ...
PCCR Expands Inter-Institutional Network for Chiropractic Research
The Palmer Center for Chiropractic Research (PCCR, Davenport, IA) has announced the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, jointly based at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, has joined the Inter-Institutional Network for Chiropractic Research. The network is a five-year multidisciplinary effort designed to facilitate chiropractic research across multiple institutions and disciplines. The network ...
NIH Commits $7 Million to Palmer Center for Chiropractic Research
Scientists at the Palmer Center for Chiropractic Research (PCCR), along with partner organizations, received a $1.46 million award from the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health and the Office of Research on Women’s Health at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The award (UG3-AT009761) funds a two-year research planning project to address the short-term ...
Impact of Parent Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior on Their Preschool Children
Young children do follow in their parents’ footsteps. Literally. That’s the conclusion of National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded researchers who found that in underserved populations, parents’ physical activity—and their sedentary behavior—directly correlates with the activity level of their preschoolers. Researchers say these findings, published January 9 in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, could lead ...
NIH Awards $7 Million to UA College of Medicine
About 25 million people in the United States—seven million of them children—suffer from asthma. A five-year, $7 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant awarded recently to Monica Kraft, MD, an internationally renowned physician-scientist who specializes in translational asthma research at the University of Arizona (UA) College of Medicine – Tucson and the UA Health ...
UA Health Sciences and Banner Health Receive Funding for PMI Cohort Program
The University of Arizona (UA) Health Sciences and Banner Health have been awarded a $4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to participate in the Precision Medicine Initiative Cohort Program, which aims to enroll one million or more U.S. participants to improve prevention and treatment of disease based on individual differences in ...
Restoring Balance, Offering Relief
Concern over pharmaceuticals has set an increased population seeking natural alternatives for their digestive health issues.Walter J. Crinnion, ND, recalled that when he started in practice in 1982, many health problems, including chronic gastrointestinal (GI) issues, were only seen in 50- and-older patients. Today, he says it is rare in his practice not to see ...
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