More deadly pathogens, toxins found improperly stored in NIH and FDA labs - The Washington Post

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"Officials at the National Institutes of Health said Friday a search on their sprawling Bethesda campus had turned up five different misplaced biological materials in recent weeks. All of them are considered so dangerous — they are known as “select agents” — that the government requires them to be stored in specially secured facilities. But in these cases, the vials were in regular labs, often part of collections of samples that date back decades.

Simultaneously, the Food and Drug Administration said it had found vials of staphylococcal enterotoxin, a frequent cause of food-borne illness, at a lab within the agency’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition that was not registered to handle it."

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Dietary Supplement Label Database (DSLD) - New from the NIH & NLM

Dietary Supplement Label Database (DSLD):

"The Dietary Supplement Label Database (DSLD) is a joint project of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) and National Library of Medicine (NLM). The DSLD contains the full label contents from a sample of dietary supplement products marketed in the U.S."

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NIH Complementary and Alternative Medicine Website

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From the NIH (National Institutes of Health): 

NCCAM's (National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine) Time to Talk campaign encourages patients to tell their providers about CAM (complementary and alternative medicine) use and providers to ask about it by offering tools and resources — such as wallet cards, posters, and tip sheets — all of which are available for free at:   http://nccam.nih.gov/timetotalk/

More information for providers:  http://nccam.nih.gov/health/providers/.

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Dietary Supplement Fact Sheets by NIH Office of Dietary Supplements

Nice source of information about dietary supplements, National Institutes of Health Office of Dietary Supplements Fact Sheets.

According to the NIH ODS:

The Office of Dietary Supplements, a part of the National Institutes of Health, works to strengthen knowledge and understanding of dietary supplements by evaluating scientific information, stimulating and supporting research, disseminating research results, and educating the public about the efficacy and safety of dietary supplements in order to foster an enhanced quality of life and health for the U.S. population.

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New Guidelines Released for HIV Opportunistic Infections

The first complete update in five years of the U.S. guidelines for preventing and treating HIV-associated opportunistic infections has been released by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention in cooperation with the HIV Medicine Association of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). The new Guidelines for Prevention and Treatment of Opportunistic Infections in HIV-Infected Adults and Adolescents apply state-of-the-art science and medicine to 29 infectious diseases of concern. More than 140 medical experts contributed their knowledge to this edition of the guidelines, released on April 10. These new guidelines can be viewed in either html or pdf formats: Guidelines for Prevention and Treatment of Opportunistic Infections in HIV-Infected Adults and Adolescents (html) or Guidelines for Prevention and Treatment of Opportunistic Infections in HIV-Infected Adults and Adolescents (pdf) 

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NIH NIAAA Wants Re-Thinking Drinking (video)

Take some advice from these testimonials:

• "Sometimes we do things out of habit and we don't really stop to think about it. This made me think about my choices."
• "It emphasized that drinking is not bad in and of itself—it's how much you're doing it and how it's affecting your life."
• "I thought the strategies for cutting down were really good. It gives you tools to help yourself."

Learn more about the NIH & NIAAA's new initiative to help rethink drinking, "Rethinking Drinking - Alcohol and your health. The website is pretty robust and easy to use.

• Download the free brochure: Rethinking Drinking - Alcohol and your health (pdf)
• The site features interactive tools, such as calculators for measuring alcohol calories and drink sizes. NIAAA is part of the National Institutes of Health. "About 3 in 10 U.S. adults drink at levels that elevate their risk for alcoholism, liver disease, and a diverse array of other physical, mental health, and social problems. Yet, many people give little thought to their drinking habits and the attendant risks" notes NIH Acting Director Raynard S. Kington, M.D. "These new materials remind all of us to think about how alcohol may be affecting our health"

If you don't have time to check out the website, listen to this ABC News video to learn more, "Do you drink too much? A new government initiative to help you rethink your drinking" (video)"

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