We are in the midst of a revolution in our nation’s health care.We live in an era when there are more office visits to complementary and alternative medicine practitioners than to primary care medical doctors. The public has demanded safer, less expensive, and more nonsuppressive therapies to prevent disease and restore their health.We have come to the conclusion that as individuals,we want to have control over our own health care decisions. Doctors are to be partners in the decision-making and healing process. As a consequence, we are seeing more and more complementary medicine health care providers in all spheres of medicine. Although there are not enough to meet the demand, we are moving in the right direction. (more…)

Phytopharm, the UK start-up Unilever dumped in November after spending more than ?20m euros in a failed attempt to develop a hoodia-based weight management product, says it is in discussions with major food and food supplements players about the South African fruit extract.

Some of the potential partners were “of a similar profile to Unilever” but interim chief operating officer, Keith Thomson, said the company was “open to exploring collaborative structures” with European and international partners. (more…)