No treatment is more emblematic of the world of alternative therapies for autism than chelation. The influential autism recovery group, Defeat Autism Now, calls removing metals from the body ...

NIH logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia) What do we do with inconvenient evidence? Imagine studying a seemingly absurd practice that is used to an alarming extent by those who believe in it despite the ...

Chelation for heart disease is usually mentioned in the same breath as laetrile for cancer -- dubious therapies used by fringe doctors and desperate patients. But some influential medical experts ...

Despite all this, McCarthy -- the actress, comedian and former Playboy model -- has advocated chelation for children with autism even though she has not actually done it to her own son.

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Chelation Is Implausible. When looking at a new treatment we first have to decide if it is even likely to work, its plausibility.If I suggested to you that I wanted to study how well Hobbit treat ...

Chelation therapy is the main form of treatment for toxic acute metal poisonings. Somehow, this treatment has become mainstream with claims by junk science gurus that chelation treats other disorders, ...

What is chelation therapy—and how is it used? WHEN YOU HAVE a substance, like a heavy metal, in the body that’s toxic but the ...

Chelation therapy is used to treat different types of metal poisoning. Some alternative health care providers also use it for Alzheimer's and other conditions. But is it safe? WebMD investigates.

He also administered chelation treatment for as long as the patient wanted it, the suit alleges. In one case, he chelated an 83-year-old Medicare beneficiary 36 times over 10 months, the suit says.