The News Review:
- Should ‘alternative medicine’ be taught in universities?
- Government probes chelation-heart disease study
- More patients seek alternative medicine
Should ‘alternative medicine’ be taught in universities?
guardian.co.uk
Five homeopathy degrees have been scrapped since 2007. But there are still plenty of complementary and alternative. The Liberal Democrat science spokesman Dr Evan Harris says the NHS is wrong to spend money on unproven treatments and effectively to give them a “stamp of approval” by doing so.
Government probes chelation-heart disease study
The Associated Press
The $30 million study with 1500 participants so far is one of the largest alternative medicine experiments ever launched. It tests high doses of vitamin and mineral supplements and chelation a treatment used for lead poisoning that has not been proved safe or effective for heart disease. Researchers suspended enrollment last August when the federal ffice of Human Research Protections began a probe into whether the people in the study were being fully informed of risks and adequately protected. Chelation (pronounced kee-LAY-shun) involves intravenous doses of a drug in this case disodium EDTA. Proponents claim it can flush out calcium that has built up in artery walls.
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More patients seek alternative medicine
WWLP 22News
write(ads[tile]); More patients seek alternative medicineSome prefer this approach to treat cancerUpdated: Tuesday 09 Jun 2009 6:46 PM EDTPublished : Tuesday 09 Jun 2009 5:52 PM EDTVeronica Cintron SPRINGFIELD Mass. (WWLP) – Alternative medicine is now more popular than ever. More than a third of all American patients use it. Experts have studied this for more than 10 years. 5 billion in research later there’s still no cure for cancer in this approach.