No better than placebo after 24 months of treatment. (more…)

 It was designed to study the effects of chelation in patients who had survived a heart attack. (more…)

 Burger King is promoting 3 new meal combinations as part of its BK Kids Meal options. (more…)

 Researchers in Canada found a wide array of health-related activity in the 3 dimensional virtual world of Second Life. (more…)

 The FDA is completing sunscreen label changes designed to give consumers a better idea of the sun protection they’re getting. (more…)

Dana Ullman (photo) is a practitioner and outspoken advocate for homeopathic medicine in the US.

Natural Food Merchandiser interviewed him, asking basic questions about homepathy and how it works. (more…)

 Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and hypnotic medications are effective for short-term treatment of insomnia, but few patients achieve 100% relief with either alone.

Researchers from Canada studied the effects of combined therapy. (more…)

 Researchers from the University of California San Francisco studied whether creatine supplementation augments the effects of progressive resistance exercise training on muscle strength, energetics, and body composition. (more…)

Dermatologists from Morristown, New Jersey report a case of a woman who developed “scalp abscess with subcutaneous fat necrosis and scarring alopecia as a complication of scalp mesotherapy.” (more…)

“There is no robust data concerning the incidence or prevalence of adverse reactions after chiropractic,” according to reviewers from Portugal. (more…)

Researchers from the Universities of Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania compared a statin to an alternative treatment option that included lifestyle changes, red yeast rice, and fish oil.

A reader has reviewed the entire study and expands on the summary below.

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Dr. David Guay from the University of Minnesota, in Minneapolis has reviewed the evidence. (more…)

In a word, “frustration.” People with multiple sclerosis (MS) use CAM because conventional treatments have many side effects and they are dissatisfied with the results. (more…)

At the Society for Investigative Dermatology meeting, researchers from Kaiser Permanente, in Oakland, California reported some confusing findings.

Melanoma is a serious form of skin cancer. Although it accounts for only 4% of skin cancer cases, it causes most skin cancer-related deaths. The good news is that it’s curable if caught early. (more…)

 Reporting at the Society for Investigative Dermatology meeting, researchers from Stanford University Medical Center, in California found an association between a lower risk of basal cell carcinoma over 5 years and higher blood levels of vitamin D.

Basal cell carcinoma is the most common skin cancer. Statistically, approximately 3 out of 10 Caucasians develop a basal cell cancer during their life. (more…)

And guess what?

In the category of “Homeopathy and Alternative Medicine,” The C.A.M. Report ranked 3rd. (more…)

Researchers at Nepal Medical College in Kathmandu measured the physiological effects of Nadi Sodhana (alternate nostril breathing). (more…)

Researchers from the Institute of Behavioural Sciences in Budapest, Hungary tell us it depends on what you listen to. (more…)

The value of conventional treatment is limited, and so is CAM.

Let’s review. (more…)

Of the many symptoms experienced by those at the end of life, pain is one of the most common, feared, and often undertreated,

Dr. Perry Fine from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City reviews the treatment options, including CAM. Here’s a summary. (more…)