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Enlarge (credit: Getty | Zing Images) Homeopathic product maker King Bio has now expanded a recall to include all of its water-based human and animal treatments—a vast list including nearly 600 products. The expansion comes as the Food and Drug Administration announced it found “high levels of microbial contamination” that appears to be recurring and […]
Enlarge / Listen to that homeopathic energy. (credit: Getty | Ian Waldie) The California medical board is threatening to revoke the license of Dr. William Edwin Gray III for selling homeopathic sound files over the Internet that he claims—without evidence or reason—can cure a variety of ailments, including life-threatening infections such as Ebola, SARS, swine […]
A B.C. naturopath’s claim that she treated a small child’s behaviour problems with a homeopathic remedy derived from rabid dog saliva has prompted a letter to the federal government from the province’s senior public health official.
Enlarge / The Susan and Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences will include a new building housing state-of-the-art technology and labs – forming the foundation for a national showcase for integrative health. (credit: University of California, Irvine) University of California, Irvine—a school long known for embracing “alternative medicine”—has undergone a potent detox: the clinical arm […]
(credit: J.K. Califf) A nine-month-old baby in Connecticut had dangerously high levels of lead in her blood after chewing on a homeopathic “healing bracelet” used to ease teething pain, according to a report published Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The baby’s condition came to light last September during a routine health […]
The nature of the U.S. legal system makes companies producing homeopathic remedies an easy target, say one Canadian corporate lawyer. Consumers in the U.S. frequently win cases based on “false claim” arguments. CBC | Health News
Two years after Marketplace exposed how Health Canada was approving children’s homeopathic remedies that promise relief from for cough, cold and other ailments without any evidence to back up the claims, the government’s promised crackdown is hard to spot on drugstore shelves. CBC | Health News
