Clinical Center Grand Rounds Patient Safety Week: Engaging Patients as Partners in the Healthcare Echo-System
Patient Safety Week: Engaging Patients as Partners in the Healthcare Echo-SystemLt. Col. Steven L. Coffee, USAFDirector of Military PersonnelCentral Security ServiceNational Security AgencyFor more information go tohttps://clinicalcenter.nih.gov/about/news/grcurrent.htmlAir date: 3/6/2024 12:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - February 29, 2024 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Can a Controversial Tree Help End the Opioid Crisis?
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) Integrative Medicine Research Lecture SeriesKratom (botanical nameMitragyna speciosa Korth) is a tree in the coffee family (Rubiaceae) indigenous to Southeast Asia. Its leaves are the source of a Thai traditional drug, kratom, that possesses unique pharmacologic actions — e.g., stimulant actions like those of the coca plant plus depressant ones like those of opium. Traditionally, in its countries of origin, kratom extract has been used as an opium substitute; in Thailand, it has been used as a treatment for addiction.Recently, human case reports have increa...
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 16, 2022 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Improbable Research and the Ig Nobel Prizes
NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series
Marc Abrahams founded the annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, in 1991. He is editor of the magazine Annals of Improbable Research, and former editor of the Journal of Irreproducible Research. He has written 24 mini-operas (about heart repair, bacterial space exploration, atomic/human romance, species mixing, coffee chemistry, the Atkins Diet, human/sheep cloning, cockroaches, incompetence, and much else). He invents ways to make people curious about things they might otherwise avoid.For more information go tohttps://oir.nih.gov/wals/2019-2020/improbable-research-ig-nobel-prizes...
Source: Videocast - All Events - February 11, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
