CHELATION THERAPY HAS been around for decades as a treatment for toxic metal poisoning. But, there have also been claims that ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Removing heavy metals from the body through a process traditionally used to treat mercury and lead poisoning doesn't help relieve autism symptoms, a new analysis suggests.

Federal health officials on Thursday announced a crackdown on a controversial therapy widely hawked on the Internet and elsewhere as an alternative treatment for conditions such as autism, Alzheimer's ...

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Heavy metals are dangerous at high levels, but treatments that remove can also be risky and only benefit certain patients. Chelation therapy is used to treat acute cases of lead poisoning and other ...

Copper chelation shows promising results in certain lung cancers where cells have two related phenomena: a heightened transcription factor responding to oxidative stress and a diminished level of ...