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research updates: safety and regulation

Below are short extracts from research updates about this subject - select more to read each item.

Issue 123

EVERETT and co-workers, Department of Anesthesiology, Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, University of Washington, USA, lucyeverett@comcast.net, have surveyed the use of herbal and homeopathic medicines in children who present for surgery.... more

Issue 29

BENZI and CECI, European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products (EMEA), London UK write that herbal medicines are now assuming large utilisation within primary healthcare of individuals and communities along with the growing interest in traditiona... more

Issue 29 cont'd

ISRAEL and YOUNGKIN, St David's Medical Center, Austin Texas 78765-4039 USA write that consumer use of alternative medicines in the United States is growing rapidly, including herbal therapies as adjunct or alternative for perimenopausal and menopausal com... more

SRINIVASAN and colleagues, Texas Tech Health Sciences Center and Veterans Affairs, Amarillo 79106-1797 USA write that Kombucha tea is a health beverage made by incubating the Kombucha "mushroom" in tea and sugar. They write that although therapeu... more

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