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Health Canada is recalling a weight-loss product called Complete 7-Day Cleanse because it contains ingredients that, when combined, pose a serious health risk.

The 10:23 campaign against homeopathy raises a question: given that homeopathy doesna t work, why is there such strong demand for it? A new paper by Werner Troesken sheds some interesting light on this.

Brighton auto supplier Eberspaecher North America will be recognized by the state for its solid health-and-safety record Thursday at its plant, 2035 Orndorf Drive.

Even as homeopaths and other advocates of questionable alternative medicine are fighting to be funded by health care under American health care reform bills, a scandal involving alleged falsifications made by the British Homeopathic Association has shined another unfavorable spotlight on the international practice of homeopathy.

Kolkata, Feb 6: The Clinical Research Organisation of Jadavpur University today said ayurvedic preparations inhibited cancer cells in animals hoping these preparations could be used also in human cancer treatment.

Scientists have cried foul, saying their reviews were wrongly quoted as supporting homeopathy.

The way homeopathy is supposed to work is, when you dilute a substance many times past Avogadro's limit, it's more powerful.

Scientists are angry that the British Homeopathic Association cited their research to a committee of MPs as proof homeopathy works when their studies showed nothing of the sort The way homeopaths presented research to MPs was grossly misleading, say scientists.

Tags A randomized, controlled clinical trial of the homeopathic medication TRAUMEEL S in the treatment of chemotherapy-induced stomatitis in children undergoing stem cell transplantation.

I had a great weekend, thanks for A asking. A bunch of like-minded souls and I got together in a frosty square in central London and took a massive overdose.

Protesters downed entire bottles of homeopathic remedies in a "mass overdose" - and said they felt absolutely no effect.

Health 2000 company chairperson Bob McDonald has labelled sceptics who staged a protest on homeopathic remedies as "ignorant and stupid". Mr McDonald, who manages Ashburton's Health 2000 shop, said homeopathic remedies, such as arnica cream and tablets and hayfever tablets, were popular with many customers.

When Dr. Andrew Wakefield - the British doctor who linked vaccines to autism - was found to be "dishonest," "irresponsible" and acting "contrary to the clinical interests" of a child by a medical misconduct panel last week , it was the latest controversial moment in the medical mystery that is autism.

No ill effects were reported by hundreds of volunteers who took part in a mass-overdose stunt around the world to demonstrate that homeopathic remedies are nothing more than sugar pills.

Simon Singh risks his life for science. On Saturday morning, a hundred scientists, skeptics and rationalists gathered in Holborn to overdose on homeopathic medicine.

The vast archives of homeopathic literature do describe a ' once, in an 1864 book a ' the danger of homeopathic medicine overdose.

Demonstrating against homeopathy On January 30th, more than 300 demonstrators Britain, Canada, Australia and the US will "overdose" on homeopathic medications to demonstrate that the stuff does nothing.

Homeopathy is big business, but a report by MPs is expected to conclude that there is no place for the controversial treatment in the health service At a session of the House of Commons select committee on science and technology, the professional standards director of Boots, Paul Bennett, had a remarkable admission to make about one of his ...

AT 10.23 am on 30 January, more than 300 activists in the UK, Canada, Australia and the US will take part in a mass homeopathic "overdose". Sceptics will publicly swallow an entire bottle of homeopathic pills to demonstrate to the public that homeopathic remedies, the product of a scientifically unfounded 18th-century ritual, are simply sugar ...

Protesters have staged a mass 'overdose' of homeopathic remedies but, asks Laura Donnelly, what did they prove? People from protest group 10.23 take a mass 'overdose' of homeopathic remedies in central London Photo: Christopher Pledger At 10.23 on Saturday morning, Simon took a vial out of his pocket.