NCCAM
NCCAM (National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine)
NCCAM (pronounced as en-see-kam), now known as the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), is a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research.
Etymology
The term NCCAM is an acronym that stands for National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. It was renamed in 2014 to the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) to better reflect its mission to define, through rigorous scientific investigation, the usefulness and safety of complementary and integrative health interventions and their roles in improving health and health care.
Related Terms
- Complementary Medicine: A group of diverse medical and health care systems, practices, and products that are not generally considered part of conventional medicine.
- Alternative Medicine: Practices claimed to have the healing effects of medicine but are disproven, unproven, impossible to prove, or excessively harmful in relation to their effect.
- Integrative Health: A holistic approach to health care that includes conventional medical therapies and complementary and alternative therapies for which there is some high-quality scientific evidence of safety and effectiveness.
- National Institutes of Health (NIH): The primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research.
External links
- Medical encyclopedia article on NCCAM
- Wikipedia's article - NCCAM
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