The FAIR Foundation is dedicated to fair and equitable distributions of Nation Institutes of Health (NIH) research funds for all diseases, including the sixteen that kill more Americans than AIDS.

Coma Life

Coma Life is Dr. Darling’s book that details the amazing life he led inside his coma and his uplifting, real-life story of survival against hepatitis C, cirrhosis of the liver, liver cancer, diabetes, a heart attack, three liver transplant operations and more. Dr. Darling guides the reader through coma action scenes and interesting individuals that are hilarious and his successful struggle for life provides patients and caregivers with hope and the positive reinforcement to continue towards a healthy outcome for whatever disease they are struggling with. Read a review of the book by Circle Magazine.

In Coma Life, Dr. Darling candidly shares the emotions that surface when one meets his donor’s parents and children. Educational chapters on hepatitis (A, B, & C), and organ donation are presented and the book introduces the FAIR Foundation (formerly ProrateNIH) to the world and details how the unfairness in the distribution of NIH funds negatively affects the sixteen diseases (The 16) that kill more people in the United States than AIDS.

We invite you to read the Coma Life book summary and reader reviews HERE or listen to radio talk-show host, Jacqueline Marcell, interview Dr. Darling on Coma Life here: HERE. To insure 100% of the profits of your purchase go to hepatitis C research and the promotion of organ donation, purchase Coma Life directly from Dr. Darling at ComaLife@dc.rr.com. He will autograph a copy for you and include a personal note. It is also available through Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, Xlibris.com, and it can be ordered at all bookstores.

Please note that Dr. Darling has dedicated the profits from Coma Life to research on his primary disease and to the promotion of organ donation for the 89,300 patients waiting for the "Gift of Life."

Coma Life

(Excerpt)

What if I said, “You have a disease that killed 16,317 people in 1998”? You would be concerned, but if you knew the number one killer of Americans, heart disease, killed 725,790, you would be able to view 16,317 deaths with a proper perspective.

What if I said, “There were sixteen (hereinafter referred to collectively as ‘The 16’) diseases killing hundreds of thousands more people every year in the U.S.A. than your disease”? You might say that being afflicted with number seventeen on the list of diseases and their mortality rates is not something to celebrate, but it’s better than being number one through sixteen.

Furthermore, what if I told you that deaths from your disease dropped from 16,317 to 10,122, a 38 percent drop in one year from 1998 to 1999? You would probably be thrilled with the progress researchers have made with the drugs to fight your disease.

Within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is The National Institutes of Health (NIH), which controls the amount of money spent on research to combat diseases. What if I told you the NIH spent $2,400 for each person with your disease in research monies, whereas it spent $28 to $230 per patient on The 16.

You might say, “Why the discrepancy? Why the unfairness? Let’s distribute the money fairly.”

What if I told you your disease was AIDS?

CHART 1

CHART 2 (for entire USA)

AIDS Cases & Deaths through 12/31/01

(through 2004 reported below chart)

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

	Adults/Adolescents		Children < 13 Years old
Year	Cases Diagnosed	Deaths	Cases Diagnosed	Deaths
<1981	92	29	8	1
1981	323	122	16	8
1982	1170	453	31	13
1983	3076	1481	77	30
1984	6247	3474	121	52
1985	11794	6,877	250	119
1986	19,064	12,016	340	167
1987	28,599	16,194	506	294
1988	35,508	20,922	618	322
1989	42,768	27,680	731	374
1990	48,732	31,436	814	400
1991	59,760	36,708	813	398
1992	78,705	41,424	952	425
1993	78,954	45,187	925	546
1994	72,266	50,071	820	586
1995	69,305	50,876	677	538
1996	60,613	37,646	511	428
1997	49,062	21,630	317	216
1998	41,605	18,028	224	120
1999	38,640	16,648	171	114
2000	35,986	14,433	101	66
2001	24,804	8,963 (see below)	51	35

Actual CDC chart here: http://fairfoundation.org/misc/volume_13_table21.pdf

Estimated AIDS deaths in 2004 = 15,798 as reported here. In consideration of the plummeting death rate in the states, we question these estimates and would ask that you note our compilation total here after we contacted every state's Dept. of Public Health. The number of deaths reported by all states and DC in their most recent reporting year is 11,825.