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 ...

Homeopathy is a popular form of alternative medicine. For many years, homeopathic practitioners and scientists have debated whether homeopathy is more effective than placebo. A recent study ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...