homeopathy

Evidence-based medicine – treatments based on evidence of safety and efficacy from clinical trials – has been in the ascendant for decades now in Europe and around the world. So why is one system of treatment which has been dismissed as ineffective by clinical trials still in use? History...

Campaigners are seeking to overturn a decision by NHS bosses to recommend GPs no longer prescribe homeopathy. The British Homeopathic Association has won the right to have a judicial review of the move. It was proposed last year by NHS England after a consultation, which the BHA is arguing was...

NHS England has announced plans to stop doctors prescribing homeopathy, herbal and other "low value" treatments. It hopes to save almost £200m a year by ending what the head of the service called a "misuse of scarce" NHS funds. Prescriptions for conditions including diarrhoea, thrush, acne and...