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  1. Experts: Placebo power behind many natural cures Tuesday Nov 10, 2009

    EDITOR'S NOTE: Ten years and $2.5 billion in research have found no cures from alternative medicine. Yet these mostly unproven treatments are now mainstream and used by more than read entire article

  2. Alternative therapies are not valued Tuesday Jun 30, 2009

    The Associated Press recently wrote some articles against "alternative therapies" in the campaign to disparage medical systems that threaten the allelopathic monopoly that has turned health into a ... read entire article

  3. Alternate health therapies can help Tuesday Jun 23, 2009

    The Bee recently ran a series of articles concerning the lack of value of most alternate health therapies ("Unproven Remedies," Page A-1, June 9-11.) I vigorously disagree, as alternate read entire article

  4. Cancer patients may hasten death Wednesday Jun 10, 2009

    TAMPA, Fla. -- With much of her lower body consumed by cancer, Leslee Flasch finally faced the truth: The herbal supplements and special diet were not working. read entire article

  5. Alternative medicine popular despite science Tuesday Jun 9, 2009

    BALTIMORE -- At one of the nation's top trauma hospitals, a nurse circles a patient's bed, humming and waving her arms as if shooing evil spirits. Another woman rubs read entire article

  6. Medical studies have found little evidence that cough medications actually relieve coughs Monday Nov 3, 2008

    It's an autumn and winter ritual. There you are in the drugstore aisle, wondering which of the many cough remedies to buy, standing miserable among the promises of a read entire article