Title:

Letter from U.S. Senator Arlen Specter to Harold Varmus

Creator:

Specter, Arlen
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations

Recipient:

Varmus, Harold and National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Office of the Director

Date:

25 March 1996

Description:

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.

Location:

Box: 6. Folder: 16

Rights:

Public Domain

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Subject:

Complementary Therapies

Format:

Text

Extent:

1 pages

Relation:

Letter from Harold Varmus to U.S. Senator Arlen Specter, 1996

Language:

English

Legacy ID:

MVBBXP

NLM ID:

101584926X378

Profiles Collection:

The Harold Varmus Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584926X378

Story Section:

Basic Science and Congressional Politics: NIH Director, 1993-1999