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 ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has begun endorsing alternative medicines — some widely discredited by medical authorities. WHO began encouraging the public to explore these treatment options via ...

Homeopathy, an alternative medicine system founded over 200 years ago, operates on the principle that substances causing symptoms can also treat them, but its effectiveness for migraine lacks strong ...

Dear H.L.: Homeopathy is a pseudoscience based on two assumptions. The first is that the body always knows what to do, so treatment includes a substance that will cause the same symptom a sick person ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: Can you explain the difference between homeopathy and allopathic medicine? -- H.L. ANSWER: Homeopathy is a pseudoscience based on two assumptions. The first is that the body always ...

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 ...

Millions of people around the world swear by the alternative medicine homeopathy. In Britain, the Royal Family endorses and uses it. But that hasn’t deterred the editors of The Lancet, the prestigious ...