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- Americans Spend $33.9 Billion n Alternative Medicine
- Alternative Medicine Spending Soars
- Leading Health Website ffers New Approach to Comparative Medicine
- Regulating quacks helps them prey on gullible patients
Americans Spend $33.9 Billion n Alternative Medicine
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This adds up to more than one-tenth of their out-of-pocket health care dollars. In fact $3 billion dollars was spent on homeopathic (drugs made from natural ingredients) medicine alone. Why? ver one-half say they cannot afford conventional health care.
Related from Medcylopaedia: US Spends $33.9 Billion Annually on Alternative Medicine
Alternative Medicine Spending Soars
Washington Post
Some dietary supplement products have been found to be dangerous. The Food and Drug Administration for example issued a warning earlier this week not to use some dietary supplements sold as body-building products because they might cause liver and kidney problems. What do you think? Are you a believer and user of alternative medicine? r a skeptic? By Rob Stein | July 30 2009; 12:00 PM ET | View or post comments | Category:.
Leading Health Website ffers New Approach to Comparative Medicine
PR Web (press release)
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Regulating quacks helps them prey on gullible patients
The Sun
It sounds sensible but it’s actually a charter for licensed quackery. Unlike doctors herbalists and acupuncturists won’t have to provide proof their treatments work. Anything that gives an official seal of approval to alternative medicine is bound to increase its credibility and popularity. And that is why regulation is far from sensible. As Britain’s leading expert on alternative medicine Professor Edzard Ernst points out: “If you regulate nonsense it is still nonsense. And NHS cash is wasted on homeopathy – also known as sugar pills and “magic” water – another example of the way regulation adds an aura of respectability to unproven treatments. Homeopathic “remedies” are licensed by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Authority.