AUSTRALIANS spend $4 billion a year on so-called alternative medicines, hoping against the odds that a largely unregulated industry will deliver cures and health benefits denied them by medical professionals. Many of these customers expect the non-prescription ''therapies'' had the tick of scientific verification somewhere along the path to health food stores and pharmacy ... Continue Reading
Alternative medicine products found to breach regulations
Hot issue ... 90 per cent of tested alternative medicines found to be non-compliant. Nine out of 10 alternative medicine products checked by the therapeutics watchdog have been found to breach regulations, fuelling calls for tougher controls of the $4 billion-a-year industry. The breaches, largely relating to false claims of curative powers on labels, have triggered the ... Continue Reading