Title:

EMail from Diane Wax to Harold Varmus

Creator:

Wax, Diane
National Institutes of Health (U.S.)

Recipient:

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

Date:

28 September 1997

Description:

Varmus's revised draft of "Proposal for Focus on Complementary and Alternative Medicine," written several days after Senator Harkin called for establishing a Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at NIH (see Congressional Record, 9/23/97); it proposes a new office--not center--with more funding and authority, under the Assistant Secretary for Health. Varmus was opposed to expanding the Alternative Medicine office into a formal NIH center, and he and his staff formulated several other options to avoid this, although the legislators prevailed in the end.

Location:

Box: 6. Folder: 17

Rights:

Public Domain

Genre:

Electronic mail

Subject:

Complementary Therapies

Format:

Text

Extent:

2 pages

Language:

English

Legacy ID:

MVBBXR

NLM ID:

101584926X380

Profiles Collection:

The Harold Varmus Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584926X380

Story Section:

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