The US Food and Drug Administration plans to go after homeopathic remedies that are unsafe for consumers and offer unproven benefits in the treatment of serious illnesses, such as cancer and asthma, ...

A loophole could enable manufacturers of alternative medicines to sell their products without having to back them up, federal regulators charge. The Federal Trade Commission wants the Food and Drug ...

Homeopathic drugs have an unusual status in the United States. On the one hand, they are incorporated into the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act) within the definition of “drug,” which ...

The Center For Inquiry, a non-profit group with a similar mindset to ACSH, has filed lawsuits against Walmart and CVS for putting homeopathic "remedies" on shelves next to actual over-the-counter ...

The Food and Drug Administration is going to evaluate how it regulates homeopathic medicines in the wake of new research that claims there is no evidence the products are medically useful. JB Pritzker ...

A new homeopathic treatment for allergies may inspire false hope, experts say. April 7, 2009 — -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is investigating the claims of a new product intended to ...

This post is part of our Home Remedy Handbook, a tour of the landscape of home remedies from the iffy to the doctor-approved. Read more here. Thanks to a loophole in the Federal Food, Drug, and ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recalled homeopathic remedies made by a company called Terra-Medica because they may contain actual medicine -- possibly penicillin or derivatives of the ...

Drug store giant CVS revealed late last week that it is voluntarily pulling some common cold and flu medicines from its shelves because they don’t work—while many other ineffective products remain on ...

Homeopathic treatments are not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), so their safety and effectiveness have not been evaluated. Rheumatoid arthritis is traditionally treated with ...

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