Mark Yannone - Arizona, District 3, 2004 Congressional Candidate, independent - click to return to home page
Issues - Healthcare - Healthcare Budget - National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)
Crystal clusters for use in Chakra and other alternative healing practices

"I wish more and more that health were studied half as much as disease is. Why, with all the endowment of research against cancer is no study made of those who are free from cancer? Why not inquire what foods they eat, what habits of body and mind they cultivate? And why never study animals in health and natural surroundings? Why always sickened and in an environment of strangeness and artificiality?"

Sarah N. Cleghorn (1976-1959), U.S. poet and social reformer. Threescore, ch. 3 (1936).
In 1998, the Congress established the NCCAM at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to stimulate, develop, and support research on CAM for the benefit of the public. The NCCAM is an advocate for quality science, rigorous and relevant research, and open and objective inquiry into which CAM practices work, which do not, and why. Its overriding mission is to give the American public reliable information about the safety and effectiveness of CAM practices.

The NCCAM is 1 of more than 27 Institutes and Centers (ICs) composing the NIH. The NIH is one of eight health agencies within the Public Health Service of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). The NIH is among the world's foremost biomedical research institutions and is the Federal Government's focal point for biomedical research in the United States.

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