Person: Mineke Kamper

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

Report urges regulation of complementary medicine

HERBALISTS, acupuncturists and traditional Chinese medicine practitioners should be legally bound to register with a professional body or face prosecution, an expert group has recommended.

Tue, 16 May, 2006

Years to alternative health rules, says FG

IT will be years before alternative medicine practitioners are subject to regulation, Fine Gael claimed yesterday.

Wed, 20 Jul, 2005

Minister dragging her feet on protection

Evelyn Ring

Thu, 05 May, 2005

Health Department set to crack down on 'alternative health practitioners'

THE Department of Health is considering the introduction of strict procedures for the registration of alternative health practitioners after the death of a 49-year-old man in Mayo.

Wed, 06 Apr, 2005

Conventional medicine ‘would have saved man’

A CORONER yesterday said a 49-year-old father of one, who died of suffocation caused by a cancer tumour while receiving alternative therapies, would still be alive had he had received conventional medicine.

Tue, 05 Apr, 2005