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Director’s Messages

Addressing Pain Requires Understanding How We Heal

March 27, 2024

How does pain occur? How does it go away? Finding answers to these questions matters to the more than 50 million adults in the United States who suffer from chronic pain.  Read more

Latest Messages From the Director


Let’s Leverage All of Us To Learn More About Health and Disease in Diverse Populations

February 19, 2024

In a new commentary in Nature Medicine, all of us in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) leadership invite all of you in the research community to take advantage of the extraordinary resources made available by NIH’s All of Us Research Program. Like several other population-based programs, All of Us is collecting extensive genomic and health data from large numbers of volunteers. Read more


Looking to the Past and Future in NCCIH’s 25th Anniversary Year

January 24, 2024

Each year at this time, I like to look forward to the coming year at the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) and review the year that just ended. Read more


A Whole Person Focus on Heart Disease

January 9, 2024

As we have explored factors that influence the health of the whole person, it has become increasingly evident that interrelationships—between different body organs and systems, between genetics and environment, and between the mind and body—are crucial in both health and disease. Read more