This is related to PD in that alot of us are pursuing alternative healthcare
to supplement the conventional PD treatments, and this bill might be worth
checking into further, especially if it would take away our access to
alternative methods.
As an aside, I wonder if Janet Reno will ever check out alternative
treatments for her pd? That would certainly lend them more credibility in
our medical institutions here. I've heard that for med schools which offer
courses now in alternative therapies, even as a general overview sort of
thing, that these classes are PACKED with students, eager to learn more of
these other systems of which they have heard. Some people on the Hill are a
bit out of touch I think.
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Please Read Before Deleting, Thank you.
Sorry for the diversion, but we need access to our "herbs, supplements etc".
I know this is slightly off the beaten tract, but it has an impact on
what we are striving to obtain acceptance on. I worked on the financial
aid crisis and we made enough of an impact that we were able to save a
lot of programs that were originally slated for termination.
The more calls on this, will cause our Senators to hear from "their
constituents", just remind them that you vote. That how they vote,
will influence how you will vote for their reelection.
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Date: Sat, 25 Nov 1995 18:43:05 -0500
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Subject: SOS! - Defeat impending legislation
Dear All,
If you are at all interested in access to alternative health modalities,
especially access to nutritional supplements, you must act quickly on this
one.
Senator Nancy Kestenbaum (who is retiring after her term is expired) is
sneaking through a bill on December 1 that would take away our access to the
above. The pharmaceutical industry is working hard to deny us access to
nutritional supplements. and who knows what Kestenbaum has been promised to
rush this through. Remember, too, that their drugs are tested on animals.
Insofar as I know, nutritional supplements are not.
PLEASE call her at 202-221-3121 (congressional switchboard) or her
direct line at 202-224-4774 and insist that she not do this, that she should
replace Title 2 of her FDA Reform Bill with the "Access to Medical Treatment
Act." Sorry, I don't know the number of the bill, if I find out, I will post
it.
Also, call your own senators and urge them to do the same:
DEFEAT Title 2 of the Kestenbaum FDA Reform Bill. PASS the "Access to Medical
Treatment Act."
Please pass this information along to as many people as you can. There
is not much time and they are counting on people being away and otherwise
occupied during this holiday season. They hope it will go through unnoticed.
Thank you,
Batya
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Yours in health,
Angel De Fazio
"The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will
interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the
cause and prevention of disease."
Thomas Edison
