Alternative Medicine

A federal investigation has found that heart attack survivors enrolled in a study of a controversial alternative medicine treatment were not told enough about potential dangers from the drug being tested, including death. The study is testing chelation _.

DUBLIN----Research and Markets has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new report "The Engines of Hippocrates: From the Dawn of Medicine to Medical and Pharmaceutical Informatics" to their offering.

IOWA CITY --- Unlike some of his Republican colleagues who would like to give Democrats enough rope to hang themselves on health-care reform in order to gain some future political advantage, Sen. Chuck Grassley isn't willing to take that risk.

When Barbara Sarah was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992, she followed the treatment that traditional medicine called for. She underwent a lumpectomy to remove the tumor, then further surgery to remove 17 lymph nodes.

Health-care advocates favoring a national public-health plan say they are intensifying pressure on Sen. Maria Cantwell, the most prominent member of Washington's congressional delegation who has yet to unequivocally embrace President Obama's idea to cre