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UK under pressure to promote natural healthcare

Food is a major and underused anticancer weapon, according to a group of British politicians, who are calling for the Government to focus on diet to reduce cancer incidence in the UK.

Homeopathy could cure third world arsenic poisioning

A homeopathic remedy made from arsenic oxide could ease the suffering of the hundreds of millions of people at risk from arsenic poisoning worldwide, suggests research published this week. Trials on rats appear to disprove a possible psychosomatic...

Lycopene may help recovery from prostate surgery

The tomato-derived antioxidant lycopene could help promote the recovery of patients undergoing standard surgical treatment for advanced prostate cancer, say researchers reporting on a small trial.

Legal challenge to supplements directive gains support

The campaign against the new EU food supplements directive is gathering pace as the Alliance for Natural Health announces it will also take legal proceedings to see the directive declared invalid under European law.