Pharmacy Daily | NHMRC: 1.3% to CM

The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) said by its calculations, it believes the average yearly commitment over the last decade for complementary and alternative medicine research (CAMS) over the last decade was around 1.3% of total funding. Swisse ceo Radek Sali said that the average yearly commitment was 0.2% (PD 03 Mar). NHMRC said it was unsure what method the company used for generating the figure. NHMRC said its Strategic Plan 2013-15 identified ‘claiming benefits for human health not based on evidence’ was a major health issue. It said it did not allocate research funds to specific disease types or areas, except in very specific circumstances. “The overwhelming majority of funding is investigator initiated, and therefore the area of research is determined by the applicant team, not the NHMRC.” The NHMRC said CAM’S applications represented 3% of all applications over the 10 year period to 2013 and 2% of all grants. “Over the same period CAM’s have had an average funded rate of 18.7% compared to 26.8% for all applications.”

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