Her psychologist testified that Chakalis feared the chelation therapy because it was painful and fatiguing.
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The latest round of easy marks for chelation vendors are parents of children with autism.
Medical toxicologists use chelation for cases of serious heavy metal poisoning, such as from industrial accidents.
They said that the results were not strong enough to support the routine use of chelation therapy.
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On the one hand, most physicians and scientists have dismissed chelation therapy as lacking any evidence or rationale.
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Promotions for chelation are combined with warnings about lead-contaminated toys and mercury in coal-plant emissions, fish and dental fillings.
Luke's-Roosevelt in New York, who says patients "waste time and money" with chelation.
We have billion dollar drugs like niacin and fenofibrate and ezetimibe that have less evidence than chelation therapy has now.
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Known as TACT (Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy), the highly controversial trial was presented today at the AHA by Gervasio Lamas.
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This would be awfully difficult for naturopaths, whose practices include homeopathy, colloidal silver treatments, and chelation therapy, to name but a few.
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They randomized these individuals to chelation with 869 to a placebo infusion.
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On those scores it is not different from discredited autism therapies such as chelation, listening to Mozart, gluten-free diets and swimming with dolphins.
On the other hand, chelation therapy is strongly supported by the alternative medicine community and more than 100, 000 people receive chelation therapy each year.
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Chelation, from the Greek for "claw, " employs amino-acid-based chemicals that latch onto lead, mercury and other metals, allowing the body to more easily excrete them.
Several hundred doctors offer chelation in the autism market, many of them certified by a trade group called the American College for Advancement in Medicine.
Over the years chelation has been repackaged over and over again.
Chelation's spread started in the 1950s, when some doctors thought it might be a way to remove the calcified plaque from the arteries of heart patients.
The American College of Medical Toxicology last summer put out a stern warning about the challenge tests that doctors use to justify chelation on people like Stemp.
As evidence piles up against a vaccine-autism link, the rationale for giving chelation has shifted toward the notion that people with various diseases are prone to metal toxicity.
Her prescription: 18 months of chelation to remove the toxins.
If we have little faith in chelation therapy, then it is hard to turn 180 degrees with a positive result and suddenly completely believe in it and recommend its use.
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Now the results of TACT will likely provide ammunition to chelation defenders, but the trial investigators and other experts have expressed considerable caution about the proper interpretation of the results.
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Of the patients who received chelation, 27% had one of the following: a death, a stroke, a heart attack, a stent procedure to open a heart artery, or a hospitalization for chest pain.
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With a result that is likely to surprise and baffle much of the mainstream medical community, a large NIH-sponsored trial has turned up the first substantial evidence in support of chelation therapy for patients with coronary disease.
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The trial showed that patients randomized to chelation therapy had a lower risk of a combined endpoint of death, heart attack, stroke, percutaneous coronary intervention, bypass surgery or hospitalization for angina than those who received a placebo infusion.
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Unfortunately, some quack doctors have experimented with chelation therapy on autistic children, despite that fact that it can cause deadly liver and kidney damage, and one of them caused the death of a 5-year-old boy in 2005.
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