CHELATION THERAPY HAS been around for decades as a treatment for toxic metal poisoning. But, there have also been claims that the therapy could help several other conditions. Experts aren't so sure.

People with diabetes who had suffered a heart attack derived no clinical benefit from edetate disodium-based chelation, a therapy that draws lead and other toxic metals linked to increased risk of ...

ATLANTA, GA—More than a decade after the TACT trial reported an astonishing reduction in cardiovascular events post-MI with heavy metal chelation in a subset of diabetic patients, the TACT2 trial, ...

High-dose OMVMs showed no significant reduction in cardiovascular events in patients with diabetes and prior myocardial infarction. The study involved 1000 participants aged 50 and older, with a ...

When determining the types of patients to be recruited for the trial, there was concern that the benefits of chelation might not be easily discerned if the participants were too healthy; patients who ...

You can eat foods like garlic, ginger, and tomatoes to help detox your body from heavy metals. Cooking with aluminum pans and eating too much fish may expose you to heavy metals. Chelation therapy is ...

TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech ...

For many years, chelation therapy has been a controversial approach to cardiovascular conditions. Some people have embraced it enthusiastically, while most physicians have rejected it emphatically.

The established method for investigating the immediate and short-term risks for a drug, after sufficient animal studies have been completed, is the phase 1 trial, which measures responses to ...

ATLANTA -- Those in cardiovascular medicine can anticipate changes in clinical practice for acute myocardial infarction (MI) following this weekend's American College of Cardiology (ACC) annual ...