Homeopathy to continue in Britain
July 27: Homeopathy will continue to be available on the National Health Service (NHS) despite an influential health committee condemning it as medically unproven, a British minister said.
Health minister Anne Milton said complementary and alternative medicine “has a long tradition” and very vocal people are both in favour of it and against it, reports the Telegraph.
A report by a group of MPs said homeopathic medicine should no longer be funded on the NHS and called for a ban on the medicines carrying medical claims on their labels.
The Commons Science and Technology Committee said there is no evidence the drugs are any more effective than a placebo — the same as taking a sugar or dummy pill and believing it works. In June, doctors attending the British Medical Association annual conference backed this view, saying homeopathic remedies should be banned on the NHS and taken off pharmacy shelves where they are sold as medicines. The treatment was described as “nonsense on stilts” and that patients would be better off buying bottled water.
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