Letter from U.S. Senator Arlen Specter to Harold Varmus
- Contributor(s):
- Varmus, Harold Specter, Arlen United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Office of the Director
- Publication:
- Produced: 25 March 1996
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Complementary Therapies
- Genre(s):
- Archival Materials Letters (correspondence)
- Abstract:
- Specter had recently appeared on a television show about alternative medicine, where two alternative medical practitioners noted that saw palmetto (banned by FDA in 1990) wasn't included in NIH clinical trial for benign prostatic hypertrophy -- he wanted to know why not. He also wondered about a recent Washington Post article about how research by corporations stifles the exchange of scientific info. Varmus responded on May 6.
- Copyright:
- The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 pages
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101584926X378 (See in Profiles in Science)
- Profiles in Science ID:
- MVBBXP
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584926X378
- Archival Collection:
- The Harold Varmus Papers (Profiles in Science)