The focus of this center is women's health. In particular, it will focus initially on 4 problems that affect a large number of women, namely, menopausal hot flashes, fibroids, dysmenorrhea and menorrhagia. The center will identify practitioners in the following 4 program areas who are interested in evaluating their therapies for the women's health problems listed above: 1) Nutrition, Diet and lifestyle/Behavioral Changes; 2) Ethnomedicine Therapies; 3) Mind/Body Therapies; and 4) Structural Manipulations and Energetic Therapies. The center will foster interaction between alternative medicine (AM) and conventional medicine (CM) practitioners and researchers, epidemologists and biostatistians, that leads to the development of diagnostic and treatment evaluation protocols, will train AM practitioners in research methods to evaluate their treatments, and will identify promising AM therapies for hot flashes, fibroids, dysmenorrhea and menorrhagia for which further studies, possibly clinical trails. The above aims will be accomplished through outreach efforts including: networks of AM practitioners reached through advisors and consultants, consortium members, The Rosenthal Center for Alternative/Complementary Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, AM electronic discussion groups, and notices in AM publications and at meetings attended by Am practitioners.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)
Type
Resource-Related Research Projects--Cooperative Agreements (U24)
Project #
3U24HD033199-03S5
Application #
6153244
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (SSS (S2))
Program Officer
Yoshinaga, Koji
Project Start
1995-09-30
Project End
2000-08-31
Budget Start
1997-09-01
Budget End
2000-08-31
Support Year
3
Fiscal Year
1999
Total Cost
Indirect Cost
Name
Columbia University (N.Y.)
Department
Physical Medicine & Rehab
Type
Schools of Medicine
DUNS #
167204994
City
New York
State
NY
Country
United States
Zip Code
10032
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