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The homeopathic drug market grew "exponentially" over the past decade into a nearly $3 billion industry, the FDA said, resulting in a flood of products manufactured without the agency's approval.
New plans announced Monday place scrutiny on products aimed at children and infants, as well as those marketed for life-threatening ailments like heart disease and cancer.
"In many cases, people may be placing their trust and money in therapies that may bring little to no benefit in combating serious ailments, or worse — that may cause significant and even irreparable harm because the products are poorly manufactured, or contain active ingredients that aren’t adequately tested or disclosed to patients."
Oh the FDA has been working to break the Alt Med (Functional Medicine) world for decades. I hope Alt Med has lobbys strong enough to stand up to Pharma lobbys. Who has the MOST $$$$$.
If it's a 3 billion dollar industry, then that's money not being spent in allopathic medicine and they want it. I agree with Jam, the FDA is no friend of Alt medicine, but it should be left up to individuals to decide what they want. There are a lot more deaths from traditional medicine.
Geesh, look at the possible side effects of the pharmaceutical drugs in the ads where they promoting them, trying to get people to ask their doctors for them. How could anything possibly be worse? I saw what two cancer patients went through with "medical treatment", my dad and a friend, just "NO!" I would never subject myself to that. I saw what my son from the time he was an infant with Down syndrome went through until at which time I started using alternative medicine to deal with his issues.
FDA needs to stay out it. My son has had two physicians that approved of using natural medicine "If it working.........." both were intrigued and one said his mother used them, the other one said her grandfather only said the way to stay healthy is stay away from the doctor.
If we could just eliminate the FDA and the CDC, both are corrupt to the heart of the organizations.
As an active user to many different alternative medicine modalities over the last 35 years I would say two things:
1) Each type has its place where it is very effective.
2) None are a magic bullet since all rely on the body to heal itself.
With that said, it is a bit of a scam for any type of mice to target a specific population or health problem. Health ailments are generally the consequence of many converging lifestyle issues and all have to be addressed to bring health back to a good level. This goes equally for the FDA approved drugs that kill 10s of thousands of people reach year.
That's because a lot more people use traditional medicine.
That's an interesting point of view. Apparently killing people had become the right of the medical industry and no other. Homeopathy kills no one (according to science), yet the medical industry has the right to kill tens of thousands every year (some studies say hundreds of thousands).. Suppose every industry has this luxury?
That's because a lot more people use traditional medicine.
I don't know about that. There were a total of 10 deaths over a ten year period of time that were suspected, although never conclusively linked to the homeopathic, Hyland's teething tablets. Keep in mind that theses teething tablets weren't just sold in health food stores, you can buy them at any grocery store, drug store, Walmart ,Target, etc. I bought some when my first daughter was a baby and that was before I even really knew what homeopathy was.
That's because a lot more people use traditional medicine.
I totally agree with ThaiChi, the medical and pharm industry kill untold people each year. I think this is due in part to the public expectation of deaths occurring from medicine, it's just what happens. The commercials on TV for various medications are good, likeable people just living their lives and being helped by this or that drug. But then, the disclosures are added, it's kind of scary really. A lot of people die from these medicines and Big Pharma has the money to deal with the lawsuits that follow.
Natural medicine is put under a microscope and if even a handful of people get sick or dies, it's treated as though the whole system is nothing but snake oil. This industry is a master at spin and they use it well.
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