by Carol Boyce  CCH, MCH, RSHom (NA)

Fast-tracked by the FDA and hailed as the biggest public-health breakthrough in years, this genetically engineered vaccine had 1,637 adverse reaction reports filed in its first year of use, to June 2007. This article describes the consequences of the use of the vaccine on the human population and on the homeopath.

by Richard Pitt

The author writes about the awe-inspiring experience of his visit the University of California, San Francisco Medical Hospital, one of the most prestigious teaching hospitals in the country, made where he had an appointment with the head librarian in the special books section of the reference library- to see one of the most important books in homeopathic history, the original 6th edition of the Organon. In this book, Hahnemann’s own extraordinarily small yet tidy handwritten additions are interwoven into the existing aphorisms of the 5th edition, at times on the same page and often with additional pages stuck in between each of the pages.

by Richard Pitt

The author describes his experiences treating different conditions as a volunteer homeopathy in Ghana

by Camila Sollero Claudio Costa Carvalho, Francisco José de Freitas

Homeopathic medicine in Brazil has seen a substantial growth in its acceptance by doctors and patients across time and today is a well accepted form of medicine. It has been recognized as a medical specialty by Brazilian National Board of Medicine (CFM) since 1980. This article traces the origin and history of homeopathy in Brazil.

by Robert Stewart, RSHom (NA) CCH

The author talks about the legality of the practice of homeopathy in this article.

by Amy L. Lansky, PhD

In a world filled with attacks on homeopathy by “quackbusters”, the author believes that increased awareness of the many high-quality double-blind placebo-controlled trials of homeopathy as well as a world populated by more deeply conscious humans will stem the tide of negative media and public opinion. She also envisions a world in which alternative energy-based medicines, like homeopathy, will be the norm.

By Loretta Butehorn PhD, CCH

In recent years, there has been a fierce and exciting dialogue that has blossomed within the homeopathic community considering what had been called classical and innovation homeopathy. In this article, we will look at a method of studying remedies which incorporate both traditional classical and innovative approaches. What are all the things we know about this remedy from every perspective in order to fully appreciate its essence. 

by Richard Pitt

The freedom to heal needs to be seen as a fundamental right, not just a privilege ordained by the state.  The legitimacy of any law needs to be measured by its actual utility.  Does it serve the greater good or merely a narrow interest group? This truth is essential in the wonderfully diverse world of healing because it expresses the most human of all impulses, the desire to enable the healing of another person.

This article talks about a law, passed as California senate bill SB577 in 2003 that clarified this situation. 

by Richard Pitt

According to the author of this article, there are two main challenges facing homeopathy today – the education of competent practitioners who can practice the art of homeopathy and secondly, the recognition of homeopathy as a distinct profession.

To overcome this, we need to help empower people to take responsibility for their own health concerns.  This does not mean giving up our standards.  We need to continually develop standards of competency for homeopathy, to work toward a united homeopathic profession. 

by Richard Pitt

In the last five years, the pressure on people to take a flu vaccine has increased greatly. Only a few years ago, flu vaccines were recommended only for elderly people and those with compromised immunities. Flu vaccines were next recommended for young children with problems such as asthma, then healthy children and adults, and then, in 2003, the entire US population. This was possibly due to an explosion of fear fueled by the media’s insatiable desire for sensational news, a country already in the grips of post-9/11 fear, and a medical industry caught up in this fear and driven by economic and political agendas.

by Martin Walker

Over the last twenty years few press articles in Britain have attempted to join up the dots between mercury, measles virus, nutrition or, for that matter, any other environmental challenges and autism spectrum disorders (ASD). There seems to have been a natural reluctance amongst journalists and commentators to investigate rising rates of autism within any environmental context. Nothing apparently, however, completely explains the descent of the vaccine-autism story into the present media silence that it now inhabits. This article explores that silence.

by Richard Pitt

This book adds a crucial perspective on a vitally important topic.. It outlines the basic questions about vaccination choice and the rights of people to question what is good for them and their families and the obligations of government to understand what they are mandating. This review has been done in a more “extractive” approach with quotes and pieces from the book which felt important to include. So more than a review it is rather like an extraction of salient parts of it.

Richard Pitt reviews two interesting books:

Out of the Woods: Healing Lyme disease, Body, Mind and Spirit, by Kim Makris CCH and

Dirty Medicine: The Handbook, by Martin J Walker