ECH Newsletter June 2018 Nobel prizes present research on homeopathy Some of the world’s leading researchers from Europe, Russia and the US, including two Nobel Prizes, will demonstrate the rapidly escalating new emerging discoveries of “water structures and science” at the International Seminar “New Horizons in Water Science, Evidence for Homeopathy?”. The Seminar will take place at the Royal Society of Medicine in London on 14 July 2018. More information: https://thesciencetheevidence.co.uk/
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ECH Newsletter June 2018
Nobel prizes present research on homeopathy
Some of the world’s leading researchers from Europe, Russia and the US, including two Nobel Prizes, will demonstrate the rapidly escalating new emerging discoveries of “water structures and science” at the International Seminar “New Horizons in Water Science, Evidence for Homeopathy?”. The Seminar will take place at the Royal Society of Medicine in London on 14 July 2018. More information: h t t p s : / / t h e s c i e n c e t h e e v i d e n c e . c o . u k /
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ECH Newsletter June 2018
English GPs continue to prescribe homeopathy
�The UK Faculty of Homeopathy has informed that general practitioners (GPs)
at the National Health Service (NHS) England have the right to continue prescribing homeopathic medicines. This is despite the recent court decision that dismissed claims by the British Homeopathic Association that the NHS
consultation that resulted in stopping funding for homeopathic medicines was unfair. Each GP is therefore still at liberty to prescribe as deemed fit with the patient’s consent in their consultation meeting, and neither NHS England nor
a Clinical Commissioning Group can interfere / dictate without a given doctor’s consent.
German Medical Council considers homeopathy an additional medical qualification
The German Medical Council has decided that homeopathy should continue to be an additional qualification for medical doctors. This policy, revalidated by the Medical Council, has been in place for more than 50 years. To obtain this qualification medical doctors should fulfil the training requirements established by the Medical Council. More information: https://www.weiterbildung-homoeopathie.de/weiterbildung-zur-zusatzbezeichnung-homoeopathie/
President of the German Medical Council in favour of medical homeopathy
The President of the German Medical Council, Dr Montgomery, made a public statement in favour of homeopathy. Dr Montgomery said: "It is a fact that homeopathy helps many people. It is important that those that practice homeopathy know when they can no longer help and then switch to normal conventional medical procedures". Dr Montgomery sees homeopathy as a "complementary medicine. In conjunction with good medical education, it makes sense. And it would be better if trained medical doctors p rov ide hea l th care . ” More in fo rmat ion : h t tps : / /www.homoeopathie-online.info/montgomery-praesident-der-bundesaerztekammer-spricht-sich-fuer-homoeopathie-aus/
ECH supports homeopathy in RomaniaECH President, Dr Hélène Renoux, has sent a letter supporting medical homeopathy in Romania and warning against a Romanian law proposal that can be in contradiction with current European Union legislation, in particular Directive 2001/83/EC. More information: Romania News
French medical homeopaths convey benefits of medical homeopathy
�The Société Savante d’Homéopathie has disseminated a press
release emphasising the benefits of medical homeopathy as a complementary medicine and signed by one hundred medical doctors. This follows the support to medical homeopathy by the French Medical Council stated in the “rapport Lebatard-Sartre” published in 1998. More
� The results of the research project on “Appropriate use of antibiotics: the role of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) treatment strategies” of the Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance were presented in Brussels on 6 June 2018. The project has focused on upper respiratory tract infections and has included several CAM disciplines, amongst them homeopathy. More information: http://cam-amr-conference.eu/objectives/
ECH and IAVH Symposium and Research and Proving Workshops in Sofia, 15-18 November 2018
The Symposium “Homeopathy in the 21st century. Integrating homeopathy in human, dental and veterinary medical practice” will take place in Sofia on 17 and 18 November 2018. Previous activities to the Symposium will be the Proving Workshop and the Research Workshop on 15 November and a Veterinary Seminar on 16 and 17 November. More information: https://alhb.eu/en/
LMHI Congress in Cape Town, 5-8 September 2018The next LMHI Congress will take place in Cape Town, next September. A provings workshop, prior to the Congress, will be organised by the ECH Subcommittee for Provings, under the supervision of Dr. Jean Pierre Jansen its coordinator. http://www.lmhi2018.org.za/
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�HRI Conference, London, 14-16 June 2019
HRI’s biennial research conference will be held at the Tower Hotel, London in 2019. Registration details will be announced shortly: https://
