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Lorraine Fertch

Lorraine Fertch, one of our local homeopaths, has been missing for several weeks. She started using homeopathy to help her eczema, found it helped, and showed up at a couple of study group meetings. She took some training in homeopathy with Andre Saine and started using it in her practice at Ruscombe. She was more of a mixer than a strict classical homeopath. I can't say I knew her well, but I always found her an easy and fun person to talk to.

Press articles about homeopathy from the web

Roger Daltrey: homoeopathy saved my baby's life
What got him into complementary therapies? He gazes into his palms, then says: I had a very, very dramatic experience with my son when he was nine months old. He had gastro difficulties, started throwing up, could not keep any food down and turned into skin and bone. At the hospital, they did every test to him, and in the end they just handed him back to me. My wife and I were in bits. My poor baby. The kid was dying. It was terrifying. I thought, there's got to be something. I'd heard of homoeopathy, so I found a local guy in the Yellow Pages and took my boy there. He gave him some powders. Within two weeks he was putting weight on, keeping the food down. The trouble recurred periodically for a couple of years, but he's now 27, a fit and healthy young man.
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Homeopathy on the line
An initiative by the Homeopathic Medical Council HMC is threatening to bring to absolute ridicule the state of medical practice in Sri Lanka. The Ministry of Indigenous Medicine is currently evaluating for final approval, a proposal by the HMC to utilise funds earmarked for the Homeopathic Hospital, to set up a new Homeopathic Medical College, which would offer a course allowing students to graduate as qualified homeopathic practitioners with doctorates after just one year of part-time study.
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Homeopathy doctors say ignored by govt,
Nearly 100 unemployed youth with degree in homeopathy are cursing their fate for persistent apathy towards this cheapest procedure of treatment. Talking to Greater Kashmir, a group of unemployed BHMS doctors said that of the four different streams of medical science, allopathic, ayurvedic, unani and homeopathic, the government has encouraged allopathic stream only by giving permanent and contractual jobs while step motherly treatment is being meted to other streams. The BHMS doctors have been struggling for jobs for the past 10 years now.
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Buncrana woman to feature on BBC
The work of Mary Barr, a trained homeopath for more than fourteen years, is to feature prominently in a BBC television documentary on Monday night. Mary worked with Derry woman Frances Gillen, a separated mother of five who had been addicted to a cocktail of prescriptions for nearly twenty years and had rarely left her Shantallow home in the last three. Her problems started when she narrowly escaped being shot just outside her house during the Troubles. The subsequent trauma soon led to depression and, over the years, a range of health problems including chronic pain, swelling and stomach disorders.
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High Level of Trust in Homeopathy� Worldwide
An international market research company, Global TGI, has found surprisingly large numbers of people throughout the world who trust in homeopathy. Trust in this system of natural medicine was found in 64% of people in India, 58% Brazil, 53% Chile, 49% Saudi Arabia, 49% United Arab Emirates, 40% France, 35% South Africa, 28% Russia, 27% Germany, 25% Argentina, 18% of America, and 15% Great Britain.
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Homeopathy 'as effective' as standard care for ezcema
Homeopathy is as effective as conventional therapy in children with eczema, concludes the first prospective cohort study to compare the treatments. The German study in 118 children with eczema found conventional treatment by GPs was equally as effective as homeopathic treatment in relieving symptoms and improving quality of life.
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New legislation changes ways homeopaths work
Today I signed into law Senate Bill 1236, a bill that introduces greater discipline in the regulation and licensing of homeopathic physicians in Arizona. Under this new law, licensed homeopathic physicians must now complete 20 hours of continuing medical education annually, like other licensed physicians. In addition, licensed homeopathic physicians whose licenses are revoked must correct the conduct that was the subject of the disqualification or revocation, make legal restitution and wait through a five-year waiting period before reapplying for an Arizona license. These are among some of the improvements to the regulation of homeopathic physicians introduced by Senate Bill 1236.
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Efficacy of homeopathy underlined
Finance Minister K Rosaiah inaugurated Positive Homeopathy Clinic here on Monday. It is the eighth homeopathy hospital set up by Dr Manus Group in the State. Speaking on the occasion, Rosaiah said homeopathy was a cost effective system of medicine. The Centre and the State Government are making every effort to promote the Indian systems of medicine.
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The last rites for alternative medicine?
Troubled believers, their tongues loosened by a few glasses of Chablis, admit to what Catholics used to call "doubts". Interestingly, many of them are women. The faith in question is the system of belief built around Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Women have always been attracted to alternative remedies. Now that faith is crumbling.
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Patients "misled" by contrasting views on complementary medicine
According to Professor Ernst, the sceptics often ignore the evidence for complementary medicine. He says that, despite thousands of clinical trials and hundreds of systematic reviews, mainstream journals rarely publish positive findings, giving the impression that little serious research is being done in this field, or that the findings show complementary medicine to be useless or even dangerous.
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Homeopathy - what a waste of time
On Saturday night, perhaps for the first time in history, there was a round of applause at the announcement of a hospital closure. I was speaking at a seminar organised by Skeptics in the Pub, and I had just explained that the Tunbridge Wells Homoeopathic Hospital is due to close next year because of a huge drop in the number of referrals. Nobody in the audience was belittling the suffering of those patients who would be deprived of homoeopathic treatment, but instead they were endorsing the fact that the money saved would be spent on more effective treatments.
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Fighting the pain of fibromyalgia
Melissa Meszko has gladly spent thousands of dollars out of pocket for her treatments. When nothing else worked for her, she says the homeopathic approach has helped. "I'm back," asserts Meszko. "I'm not 100 percent, but I'm definitely good."
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