Global Homoeopathy Conference Underway in Agra
An international homeopathy conference is taking place in this Taj Mahal city, attended by over 80 delegates from India and eight countries.// The four-day meet, which began Wednesday, will focus on critical areas like cancer, AIDS and "other difficult subjects which have proved a challenge t...Karnataka Pharmacy Gets Licence to Produce Medicines from White Arecanut
...native use of arecanut through the Shri Dharmasthala Manjunatheswara Ayurveda Pharmacy, Udupi. The the Directorate of Indian Systems of Medicine and homoeopathy (ISMH) has now given the foundation its nod for commercial production of "Pooga syrup" and "Pooga trim" (powder). Pooga in Sanskrit means arecanut. ...Union Budget: Impact on Health Sector
... ASHAs in place, I am confident there will be significant improvement in healthcare in rural areas. The ayurveda, yoga, naturopathy, unani, siddha and homoeopathy systems are also being mainstreamed into the health delivery system at all levels.' ? Funds for the National HIV/AIDS control Programme has al...Hostility breeds against Homeopathy in England following new regulations
...ntional medical professionals who have written off homoeopathy as ‘mumbo jumbo’ and claim that this move would on...ed of this offensive tirade by firmly vouching for homoeopathy and saying this rule only harnesses consumer infor...tors have vehemently opposed this rule saying that homoeopathy only has a placebo effect and yet another group sa...Rajasthan Plans to Promote Medical Tourism and Medical Education in the State
...diagnosis centres, blood banks, and nursing and paramedical training institutes. The policy will also boost other medical streams like ayurveda, homoeopathy and naturopathy. A "land bank" will be created to give land to medical institutions that are promoting and practising alternative medical therapies. ...Medical community worried that new curriculum will 'Promote Quackery'
... Mr.Vinay Agarwal, Secretary of Indian medical Association // that has over 150,000 doctors as members said: "The idea of adding ayurveda, unani and homoeopathy subjects in the already over-crowded medical curriculum is not going to help anybody," He added: "The move would also lead to an increase in quac...Researchers Question The Effectiveness Of Homeopathic Remedies
..., Switzerland, had // compared 110 placebo controlled, randomized trials of homoeopathy with 110 conventional-medicine trials matched for disorder and type of outc...icted to large trials of high quality there was no convincing evidence that homoeopathy was superior to placebo, whereas for conventional medicine an important eff...Homeopathic preparation better than placebo in perennial allergic
...flow and visual symptom analogue scale scores to baseline measurements. The homoeopathy group had a significant objective improvement in nasal airflow compared wit...was a mean symptom reduction on visual analogue scores of 28% (10.9 mm) for homoeopathy compared with 3% (1.1 mm) for placebo. ...