Are there alternative methods for treating heart disease?

Are there alternative methods for treating heart disease?

It's always worth looking for new methods for treating a disease that's as widespread and serious as heart disease. The best way to look at those ideas is to assess them in clinical trials, so that there are a number of complimentary and alternative methods that are currently being evaluated by the National Institutes of Health to see if they really are helpful, or if they're not. One can't simply take a method and start using it with the assumption that it's better, because in fact, not only could it cause harm, but it may keep people from following the treatments that we know are helpful. So it has to be shown to be better than what we have now. It's very important for that research to be done, and the NIH is currently at a lower level of funding than it's been in thirty five years. For the first time in thirty five years, funding at the NIH has actually fallen. So supporting the concept that biomedical research is a very important thing to do, and really the only way we find new discoveries is an important message for everyone to take to their congressmen.