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UK: no public money homeopathy


At the annual conference of young doctors, members of the British Medical Association (BMA http://www.bma.org.uk/) voted by an overwhelming majority against the use of money British Health Service (NHS) in support of homeopathy, which has no scientific basis. According to Tom
Delphin, vice chairman of the BMA, "witchcraft is Homeopathy (Homeopathy is witchcraft) and is a real shame that in London there is a National [...] Hospital for Homeopathy, paid by the health service. "
The so-called 'drugs' are not actually homeopathic medicines, as they are subject to the same strict rules necessary for market approval by regulatory authorities in the U.S. FDA and EMA in Europe.
homeopathic products are the result of serial dilutions of the original substance, that in formulating the final product is present in a lower concentration of the Avogadro constant (6022 × 1023 mol-1). So, the products Homeopathic contain nothing of the original substance, but only the 'memory', of course, and through that should take effect.
Contrary to what you say supporters of homeopathy, it is not true that these drugs-even if you do not give benefits, but are only means of possible placebo effect, not cause damage to health, as evidenced by the recent case of Zicam, a homeopathic product containing zinc that caused loss of sense of smell (anosmia) in those who used it against the cold. Now the United States Zicam is at the center of a growing number of lawsuits. The quarterly newsletter of the Italian Society of Pharmacology dedicated pharmacovigilance recommends against the use of Zicam: http://www.farmacovigilanza.org/focus/200912/.
In Italy, a petition published on December 6, 2009 "Science on the Net" (http://www.lascienzainrete.it/petizione-ricerca-omeopatici ) And to the Minister of Labour, Health and Welfare Maurizio Sacconi
and the Deputy Minister of Health Ferruccio Fazio was in the same direction of motion of the BMA: no public funding for the regulation of homeopathic medicines. According to the medical community, who had initiated the petition and collect signatures, represented by consultation of the Scientific Society for the reduction of cardiovascular risk, "Evaluating carpet of 30,000 homeopathic products for the safety and the subsequent filing by ' AIFA, besides being a waste of public resources - hundreds of thousands of hours of paperwork thrown to the wind with an economic impact presumably measured in millions of € - runs the risk of being perceived by a significant proportion of the population as a certificate of efficiency, which legitimize the use, with significant risks to the health of patients. "
Unlike Italy , where-in-all I know the petition was not successful, the motion will be made in UK whole association in plenary conference next June and if approved, will become an official guideline.
"It would be better the National Health Service to focus efforts on treatments that bring real benefits - explained in the same conference, the Chairman of the Scottish junior doctors, Gordon Lehany - and not yet on remedies that have no scientific value. Who wants to be cured with homeopathy, free to do so, but paying their own pockets. "
Perhaps because of my background in biotechnology, but I can only agree with Gordon Lehany.