Heavy metals are dangerous at high levels, but treatments that remove can also be risky and only benefit certain patients.

The government's National Committee for Complementary and Alternative Medicine recently announced that it may fund a five-year-long, large-scale study evaluating the possible benefit of chelation ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is sponsoring a $30 million, 5-year, phase 3 Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy (TACT) for coronary artery disease (CAD). It was begun in 2003, but after 3 years ...

PNEUMONOCONIOSIS associated with heavy-metal inhalation has long resisted most forms of therapy. The development of chelating agents offers a new approach to this problem. This report concerns our ...

Q: I have heart disease, and I keep hearing that chelation therapy can help. It sounds like snake oil to me. What is it, and can it help? A: Ever since I graduated from medical school, I’ve thought, ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Vitamins alone won't improve outcomes for patients who've had a heart attack, but they do appear to have additive benefits when given in conjunction with chelation therapy, ...

Recently, there has been a growing interest in EDTA supplements due to the possible health benefits they provide. Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA), a chelating agent, bonds with heavy metals and ...

Gordon Lathe has just turned 80, and says he feels like he has a new lease on life, a sense of well-being he attributes to a non-conventional medical treatment called chelation therapy. The technique ...

In March 1999, ACAM presidents L. Terry Chappell and Ted Rozema shilled for chelation at a hearing of the House Committee on Government Reform, chaired by a powerful "health freedom" ally and veteran ...