"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
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Alternative Medicine Update:Chelation therapy, the alternative medicine practice of using the chemical EDTA to bind heavy metals in the blood to treat heart disease, gets its own large, prospective study this spring. Quackwatch has a nice review of the subject: what it is, the theories behind it, and how it's currently practiced. As it stands now, the doctors who use this aren't basing their practice on any sort of evidence, only on theory. The study by the NIH is a welcome one, especially since it's apparently being designed by someone who has no vested interest in the outcome. posted by Sydney on
8/10/2002 05:17:00 PM
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