Congressional Testimony

The First Testimony before Congress about Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy.  The testimony that started in it all, and created National Institutes of Health Funding for Hyperbaric Centers at Duke University and elsewhere.  Look what we knew in 1963, forty years before Dr. Harch testified before Congress and opened up the third attempt to make HBOT the "standard of care." 

1963 Labor & HEW House of Representatives Hearing on HBOT  

May 6, 2004:  House Government Reform & Oversight Committee

"Autism Spectrum Disorders: An Update of Federal Government Initiatives and Revolutionary New Treatments of Neurodevelopmental Diseases"
Announcement       Opening Statement    Oral Transcript   
Buttar Testimony     Buttar Narration      
Harch Testimony     Stoller Testimony   

Harch April 2004 Testimony before the House Labor HHS Appropriations subcommittee:
 
Update to Congress as a followup to the 2002 Congressional Testimony of the State of the HBOT 1.5 Science as of April 2004

Testimony PDF          Brain Scans PDF  

"Neurological Treatments with Hyperbaric Medicine will save billions in Government Health Care, Disability and Education Costs"

The May 2002 Congressional Testimony serves as the foundation for understanding the public health impact of HBOT 1.5's ability to heal neurological injury or reverse neurological disease processes.  The cost of untreated brain injury to our society is hundreds of billions of dollars.  Treating untreated brain injury is far less costly than letting these victims languish in lives of misery.

Harch Testimony PDF    HBOT LHE PDF   

March 2002:  Testimony before House Labor HHS Appropriations (40 years after)

We were all taught that brain cells don't regenerate. Several years ago, NIH (National Institute for Health) announced that medicine had been in error all these years and challenged the medical community to begin searching for ways to help. Hyperbaric medicine has been repairing brain injuries right here in America for over 30 years, but no one would look at it seriously because everyone "knew" that it was not possible.
Note: Four of these histories in the May 2, 2002 testimony/scans are near and dear to Dr. William Duncan who truly understands the power and benefit of HBOT. The Navy Corp man is his youngest son, the mentally retarded man is his youngest brother, the abuse victim is a family acquaintance, and the last slide is his own.