Chelation Therapy: Clinically Relevant or Just Quackery? Originally used to treat lead poisoning and hypercalcemia, chelation has shown promise among individuals with heart disease and other ...

In March 1999, ACAM presidents L. Terry Chappell and Ted Rozema shilled for chelation at a hearing of the House Committee on Government Reform, chaired by a powerful "health freedom" ally and veteran ...

When determining the types of patients to be recruited for the trial, there was concern that the benefits of chelation might not be easily discerned if the participants were too healthy; patients who ...

People with diabetes who had suffered a heart attack derived no clinical benefit from edetate disodium-based chelation, a therapy that draws lead and other toxic metals linked to increased risk of ...

“For me, this is the big one.” Gervasio Lamas, the chief of Columbia University’s cardiology division at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, took out his phone and tapped the battery. “Cadmium.

In results that are stunning cardiologists, a new study shows a “fringe” alternative treatment for heart disease was found to be very effective at preventing heart problems – but the report is so ...

A study published last month was expected to confirm what most cardiologists already assumed: that chelation therapy was a risky, useless remedy for heart disease. But it didn’t. Instead, the research ...

Gordon Lathe has just turned 80, and says he feels like he has a new lease on life, a sense of well-being he attributes to a non-conventional medical treatment called chelation therapy. The technique ...

The FDA's move to shut own quacks who use "chelation" to treat autism will be seen by many -- including Jenny McCarthy-- as another example of the federal government's conspiracy against alternative ...