The Honorable Tommy Thompson
Secretary, Health and Human Services
Washington, DC 20010

Dear Mr. Secretary,

There has been a massive failure at the NIH. The elephant in the room that everyone is trying to ignore is the cure for heart disease that was invented by the late Nobelist Linus Pauling. Everyone is the medical profession. and the room is centered at the National Institutes of Health.

It is a fact that in 1992 Linus Pauling invented a simple, low-cost, safe and apparently very effective treatment for all forms of cardiovascular disease.[*] Pauling even used the word "cure." So, is Pauling's non-prescription combination of high vitamin C and lysine therapy really the cure for heart disease? Nobody knows. The NIH has been negligent by not immediately investigating this question! It has already been ten years, and the answer might save what the American heart Association estimates cost the United States more than 300 billion dollars per year.

Recently published scientific studies now confirm that high-dose vitamin C taken throughout the day may dramatically reduce major health risks. Even though the data was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine in the early months of 2004, doctors paid no attention. [Annals Internal Medicine, April 6, 140: 533-37, 2004] The news media also appears to be oblivious to the report. It should have been a major headline. But worse yet, government researchers who conducted the study failed to alert the public or the news media. Countless millions of Americans could avoid cataracts, aneurysms, gallstones, cancer and heart disease with this knowledge. - Bill Sardi

All this begs the question, who does the NIH really work for? And why won't they, with their ever increasing budget, now greater than 27.3 billion, spare a few million (or as in our last grant request, $250,000) to answer the compelling question: Was Linus Pauling right or wrong? And why does the NIH not better publicize their own research findings of the value of doses of vitamin C much higher than the RDA?

Your response in this important matter is greatly anticipated.

Yours Truly,

Owen R Fonorow
www.VitaminCFoundation.org

Cc:  White House
     Illinois Congressional Delegation