News tagged with 'Chelation'

Actor Jeremy Piven drops out of a Broadway play with symptoms of mercury toxicity. He reportedly ate sushi twice a day for health.  While the NIH is conducting studies to see if chelation will remove heavy metals from an overloaded body, the FDA is considering softening recommendations on fish consumption, something an environmental consumer group is calling the wrong direction.

A new study in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine suggests that counties with higher levels of precipitation also have higher autism rates, further deepening the mystery of the causes of autism.

The largest alternative medicine study ever launched by the U.S. government has stopped enrolling patients while federal officials investigate alleged claims that participants were not fully informed of the inherent risks and were not sufficiently protected.

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) said on Wednesday that it has discontinued a controversial study intended to assess the effectiveness of chelation (kee-LAY'-shun) as a potential autism treatment.