Tom Harkin

Where are we in that? I mean, are we in human trials right now?

Well, that's all well and good. I hope you don't mind if I remain skeptical.

I mean come on, look, I mean, calories in, calories out. More calories in, less calories out, it's stored, it's stored as fat.

$3.6 million per year?

I have felt for a long time that NIH had to be more aggressive in getting their stuff out to the general public.

I think it's a great resource. And, again, I'd like to see copies of this in every doctor's office around the country.

Well, would doctor's offices subscribe to it?

There's some good stuff in here.

If Congress were to require that all NIH-funded research articles be deposited in the PubMed Central Database, how would that improve scientists' ability to conduct research?

Well, I appreciate that for the record. We don't really know exactly what we're going to do yet.

Is how we reimburse.

I don't think people would mind so much the expenditure, in terms of percentage GDP if, in fact, that money went for preventative medicine, early detection.

I think we are all very much attached to that vision as the promise of the future.

I guess I'm curious about that, and how that is proceeding, and whether or not there's enough correspondence, or I think, overlap--what's the word I'm searching for, when you talk together?

Thank you very much, Dr. Pettigrew.

Thank you for clarifying that, the bacteria specifically responsible for the urinary tract infections can be identified in 30 minutes.

What you mean, is the specific type of the bacteria can be identified.

Please provide the Subcommittee with detailed information on what the NHLBI is doing to achieve its goal of reducing the general public's consumption of sodium, including any efforts to find acceptable salt substitutes.

I would appreciate that. I'm very intrigued by it and he seems to be a very knowledgeable doctor and has done some interesting research.

Well, this has been a very, very informative meeting and I appreciate it very much.

Well, to make a long story, short, when I was at the hospital for special surgery, I'd mentioned this and they've all heard of this guy.

I want to ask you this, have you ever heard of, or come across, approaches, studies, done by Dr. John Sarno in New York City?

Well I really want to get my hands on this. I want to get it better in my own head as to what this study, how you did it, what the results were, what some of the data show.

That is pretty startling; I've never heard this before.

Well, we should be informed on that and quite frankly, I need to get what you just told me, Dr. Hodes, I need to get in a nice short form and with some of the data that you have, this could be very helpful.