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"Total nih funding ?$5 billion Funding of relevant nih departments: Child Health, Mental Health, ?Environmental Health, Neurological Disorders ?LESS THAN $ 100 million* Portion of the $5 billion allocation that directly or indirectly impacts autism research. •This represents 0.3% of total nih funding. MUCH MORE FUNDING is needed. HOW DOES FUNDING FOR AUTISM COMPARE TO OTHER CHILDHOOD DISORDERS & DISEASES? ?Leukemia 1 in 25,000 Funding: $300 million ?Muscular Dystrophy 1 in 20,000 Funding: $160 million ?" - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"National Institute on Aging www.nia.nih.gov National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders www.nidcd.nih.gov National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse www.kidney.niddk.nih.gov National Medical Association www.nmanet.org National Osteoporosis Foundation www.nof.org National Ovarian Cancer Coalition www.ovarian.org National Parkinson Foundation www.parkinson.org National Scoliosis Foundation www.scoliosis.org National Sleep Foundation www.sleepfoundation.org National Women's Health Information Center www.womenshealth." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"The nih has certainly funded some of the best clinical trials around. The eighty-million-dollar ALLHAT trial, for instance, which compared the effectiveness of different types of high-blood-pressure medications, was paid for by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. But the nih isn't actually set up to examine the medical practices of today; its primary mission is to perform basic research that will lead to the cures of tomorrow, and the institutes currently spend only a tiny fraction of their budgets on studies like the ALLHAT trial, research that could change current practice." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"National Institutes of Health (NIH) 9000 Rockville Pike Bethesda, Maryland 20892 www.nih.gov Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development 2, rue Andre Pascal F-75775 Paris, Cedex 16, France Main switchboard, tel.: +33-1.45.24.82.00 Fax: +33-1.45.24.85.00 www.oecd.org Pesticide Action Network North America 49 Powell St., Suite 500 San Francisco, CA 94102 Phone:415-981-1771 Fax:415-981-1991 www.panna.org World Health Organization (WHO) Avenue Appia 20 CH -1211, Geneva 27, Switzerland Phone:+41-22 791 2111 Fax:+41-22 791 3111 www.who.int/en/ U. S." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"In 1991, Congress mandated the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) to investigate 'unconventional medicine'. The nih opened its Office of Alternative Medicine in 1992, but budgeted only a paltry $2 million for its operations?.02 per cent of its budget for research on therapies then used by an estimated 35 per cent of American citizens. After a bitter and protracted battle with Congress, that budget was increased to $50 million in the late 1990s—still less, as one dermatologist pointed out, than was spent on toenail fungus alone." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"I sometimes tell my friends at the nih that global warming is a bigger threat than Alzheimer's disease and joke that when the ocean levels rise and flood Washington and the nih headquarters in Maryland, the "march to progress" against AD will look pretty inconsequential. It's a sardonic joke, of course, but the point about broadening and realigning our priorities is often well taken. alzheimer's goes to washington In 1979 the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Association was created in Washington, D.C." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) 1 Diabetes Way Bethesda, MD 20892-3560 800-438-5383 www.ndep.nih.gov The goal of the NDEP is to improve the treatment and prognosis of diabetics, to promote early diagnosis, and to prevent or delay the onset of diabetes. National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse (NDIC) http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/overview/index .htm The mission of the NDIC is to increase knowledge and understanding about diabetes among the general public, patients, and health-care professionals. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases www." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"National Eye Institute http://www.nei.nih.gov Information about eyes. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease (NIDDK) http: / / www.niddk.nih.gov General information on diabetes, digestive, and kidney diseases National Institutes for Health (NIH) http://www.nih.gov Access to the nih and all the organizations that come under it. National Network for Health http://www.nnh.org Collaborative site for health education. Online Health Library http://wwtv.healthfinder.gov Online health information resources site. SimpleCare http://www.simplecare." - Dr. Vern Cherewatenko and Paul Perry, The Diabetes Cure : A Natural Plan That Can Slow, Stop, Even Cure Type 2 Diabetes (Get the book.)

"There's a sense at the nih that such research, which would compare different drugs, for example, or test existing treatments, is somehow beneath the lofty goals of the agency. As nih director Elias Zer-houni recently put it, "We don't do Coke versus Pepsi." We need an institution that is dedicated to providing independent, reputable medical research that can lead directly to improving clinical practice. Less is riore Ly j One of its first jobs would be assessing the current evidence available for drugs." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Funding of relevant nih departments: Child Health, Mental Health, ?Environmental Health, Neurological Disorders ?LESS THAN $ 100 million* Portion of the $5 billion allocation that directly or indirectly impacts autism research. •This represents 0.3% of total nih funding. MUCH MORE FUNDING is needed. HOW DOES FUNDING FOR AUTISM COMPARE TO OTHER CHILDHOOD DISORDERS & DISEASES? ?Leukemia 1 in 25,000 Funding: $300 million ?Muscular Dystrophy 1 in 20,000 Funding: $160 million ?Cystic Fibrosis 1 in 5,000 Funding: $75 million ¦Juvenile Diabetes 1 in 500 Funding: $140 million ?" - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"NIH spends on cancer research, only about 11% is for so-called prevention.35 The vast bulk of this money is spent on education for early detection, self-screening for breast cancer being one example. Unfortunately, as we show in chapter 2, this widely practiced screening (as well as most others) offers no advantage whatever in mortality—a surprising result but true nonetheless. Real prevention, cleaning the air and water, for example, or purifying the food supply, are not even part of the nih mission." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"In fact, disodium EDTA is the medication we are currently using in the large nih study that is evaluating chelation therapy for cardiovascular disease. Another reason the two deaths may have occurred from the administration of disodium EDTA was that the chelation medication was not administered as a slow intravenous drip. Instead, it was administered as a relatively fast intravenous push. The slow IV drip method minimizes the possibility of sudden adverse reactions. We are employing the slow IV drip in the nih study on chelation therapy." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"National Medical Association www.nmanet.org National Osteoporosis Foundation www.nof.org National Ovarian Cancer Coalition www.ovarian.org National Parkinson Foundation www.parkinson.org National Scoliosis Foundation www.scoliosis.org National Sleep Foundation www.sleepfoundation.org National Women's Health Information Center www.womenshealth.gov NIH Osteoporosis and Related Bone Diseases—National Resource Center www.niams.nih.gov/bone North American Menopause Society www.menopause.org Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome Association www.pcosupport.org Scleroderma Foundation www.scleroderma." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.) "National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders www.nidcd.nih.gov National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse www.kidney.niddk.nih.gov National Medical Association www.nmanet.org National Osteoporosis Foundation www.nof.org National Ovarian Cancer Coalition www.ovarian.org National Parkinson Foundation www.parkinson.org National Scoliosis Foundation www.scoliosis.org National Sleep Foundation www.sleepfoundation.org National Women's Health Information Center www.womenshealth." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.) "NIH Osteoporosis and Related Bone Diseases—National Resource Center www.niams.nih.gov/bone North American Menopause Society www.menopause.org Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome Association www.pcosupport.org Scleroderma Foundation www.scleroderma.org Sjogren's Syndrome Foundation www.sjogrens.org U.S. Food and Drug Administration www.fda.gov U.S. National Library of Medicine www.pubmed.gov BOOKS Adam's Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form Michael Sims Penguin, 2004 The Body Has a Head Dr." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"According to the National Institute for Health, www.nih.org, if you have celiac disease, five to 15% of your first-degree relatives will also have it. About three to 8% of people with Type 1 diabetes will have biopsy-confirmed Celiac Disease, and five to 10% of people with Downs Syndrome will also be diagnosed with it. The mechanism that causes damage in Celiac Disease is the immune system, which reacts with bowel tissue causing inflammation. This, in turn, causes a flattening of the lining of the small intestine, which impedes nutrient absorption." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"NIH funding. MUCH MORE FUNDING is needed. HOW DOES FUNDING FOR AUTISM COMPARE TO OTHER CHILDHOOD DISORDERS & DISEASES? ?Leukemia 1 in 25,000 Funding: $300 million ?Muscular Dystrophy 1 in 20,000 Funding: $160 million ?Cystic Fibrosis 1 in 5,000 Funding: $75 million ¦Juvenile Diabetes 1 in 500 Funding: $140 million ?Autism 1 in 150 Funding: $15 million (Dollar amounts reflect approximate annual funds raised by major private advocacy groups.) Note: it is important to note that there is no suggestion to place an importance on one disease over another." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Jackson was the second person who had died while participating in nih studies of a drug named Fludara, marketed by Berlex Laboratories. This drug, which had been used to treat leukemia since 1991, was being tested to see if it helped patients with autoimmune diseases. No more patients were enrolled in the study after the second death, but the study continued with the patients already enrolled for another nine months, and terminated only when five of the remaining 12 patients developed abnormalities in their blood tests. Dr. Stephen I." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "Richard Eastman was the director of the nih division in charge of diabetes research, and in charge of the $150 million Diabetes Prevention Program study. This large study was designed to determine whether diabetes could be prevented in people at high risk (overweight and with mildly elevated blood sugar levels) by drugs or by lifestyle interventions. In June 1996 Dr. Eastman announced that Rezulin had been selected as one of the two diabetes drugs to be included in the study—a real victory for Warner-Lambert, the manufacturer of Rezulin." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Several years ago as part of an nih grant to explore medical decision making in dementia, I studied end-of-life care for persons with dementia. As part of the study, my co-author and I conducted interviews in hospice centers around the Cleveland area and asked family members with loved ones in hospice what suggestions they might make to others who would one day be in their position. Overwhelmingly, people emphasized that they wished they had known about and gotten involved in hospice much earlier, and that their physicians had educated them about the benefits of seeking hospice care." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) "In a radio interview on NPR (November 16, 2006), John Hardy, a molecular biologist from the nih and an old friend of mine, was paired up with me to debate whether we were putting too much money into finding a cure. In large part, we both agreed that there was excessive hype about a cure and that the dominance of profit making led to these unrealistic claims for quick fixes. Later in the debate, the interviewer asked us whether we would ever have an "absolute" cure." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) "ADEAR (www.nia.nih .gov/alzheimers), and Healthwise (www.healthwise.org) contain pages upon pages of helpful information, as well as links to other sites that can inform your understanding of your condition and the treatments and tests you may receive. Not only can such information clear up misapprehensions you might have, but the process of navigating the Web can also help you stay mentally active. Your use of the Internet need not be purely information-oriented." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"For an excellent chart listing dietary sources of magnesium, check the National Institutes of Health website at: http://www.cc.nih.gov/ccc/sup-plements/intro. html. Mitral Valve Prolapse Magnesium deficiency is also a significant player in mitral valve prolapse syndrome. Mitral valve prolapse (MVP) is a benign condition of the mitral valve (which lies between the left atrium and the left ventricle and is shaped like a bishop's hat or mitre). Sometimes the mitral valve leaflets become thickened, voluminous, or stretched, which may cause a slight to severe leakage of the valve." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"High blood glucose: fasting, 110 or more For more statistics and information on the metabolic syndrome, see www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/metabolicsyndromex.html. The Truth about Being Fat Although U.S. health agencies provide no accurate U.S. statistics for metabolic syndrome, we have plenty of statistics on obesity, the most common symptom of metabolic syndrome. In fact, the rising incidence of metabolic syndrome closely parallels the prevalence of obesity in America. The incidence of metabolic syndrome lags behind the incidence of obesity by about two years." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.) "For more information on diabetes, see http://ndep.nih.gov/. A Heart-to-Heart Moment Another aspect of metabolic syndrome is elevated cholesterol?specifically, elevated LDL, triglycerides, and low HDL, and the heart and vascular diseases that can result. Although no one has established a direct relationship between cholesterol levels and vitamin D, many researchers believe vitamin D has an influence. Dr." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"General Homeopathy For basic information on the principles of homeopathy, visit the federal government's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine's Web site (www.nccam.nih.gov), which gives an overview of this branch of alternative medicine. You can also access fact sheets about a wide range of dietary supplements and the individual herbs used in various homeopathic formulas. Homeopathic Medicine for Children and Infants by Dana Ullman and Homeopathic Medicine at Home: Natural Remedies for Everyday Ailments and Minor Injuries by Maesimund B." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases: http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/insulinresistance/ Ohara Y et al. Hypercholesterolemia increases endothelial superoxide anion production./ Clin Invest 1993 Jun; 91 (6):2546-51. Paolisso G, Giugliano D. Oxidative stress and insulin action: Is there a relationship? Diabetologia 1996; 39:357-63. Reaven G. Insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and cardiovascular disease: The end of the beginning. Circulation 2005 Nov 15; 112(20):3030-2. Shigenaga MK et al. Oxidative damage and mitochondrial decay in aging." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"Vision Place Bethesda, MD 20892-3655 (301)496-5248 279 National Institute on Deafness and National Institute of Neurological other Communication Disorders www.nidcd.nih.gov 31 Center Drive, MSC 2320 Bethesda, MD 20892 Disorders and Stroke www.ninds.nih.gov nih Neurological Institute PO Box 5801 Bethesda, MD 20892 (800)352-9424 National Institute of Mental Health www.nimh.nih.gov 31 Center Drive, MSC 2320 Bethesda, MD 20892 There are also web sites associated with organizations that provide general infor mation. AARP American Psychiatric Association www.psych.org www.aarp." - Guy McKhann, and Marilyn Albert, Keep Your Brain Young: The Complete Guide to Physical and Emotional Health and Longevity (Get the book.)

"You can find this illuminating report at www.nccam.nih.gov/health/diabetes. Exercise: The Most Essential Homework of All Along with a good diet, staying in shape is the best way to keep your kids' weight under control and protect them from the awful diseases caused by obesity. When I was growing up, physical education was a standard part of every school day. We played all sorts of sports at recess, five days a week. In recent decades, that situation has changed, much to the detriment of our kids. Across the country, when schools cut their budgets, PE is often the first thing to go." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"The financial conflicts of interest at the nih are by no means isolated examples of drug company influence on the government oversight of the drug industry. Because crucial recommendations about drug approval and drug labeling are made at the FDA's Advisory Committee meetings, federal law "generally prohibits" the participation of experts who have financial ties to the products being presented on these committees. An article in USA Today in September 2000 shows, however, that the FDA granted so many waivers?" - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

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