Luca Monsellato was taken to hospital with a high fever and cold symptoms but failed to respond to emergency medical treatment and died.
His parents, Marcello and Giovanna Pantaleo, told doctors they had been treating his apparent three-week cold with fennel tea – a popular homeopathic remedy for coughs – in an attempt to keep his fever under control. They eventually took him to hospital when his condition worsened.
A group of faith healers who claim they have miracle cures for cancer and HIV have been condemned as "irresponsible, even criminal" by a professor of complementary medicine, following a BBC Newsnight investigation.
Petition to implement the recommendations of the House Commons Science and Technology committee evidence check on Homeopathy
The House Commons Science and Technology committee has recently undertaken an evidence check on the usefulness of homeopathy and has now published its report.
The conclusions are unequivocal. They say "To maintain patient trust, choice and safety, the Government should not endorse the use of placebo treatments, including homeopathy. Homeopathy should not be funded on the NHS and the MHRA should stop licensing homeopathic products."
The government should implement these recommendations as soon as possible.
Skeptic James Randi challenges sellers of scam medications as hundreds stage worldwide "overdose" on homeopathic pills
Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.—To expose a scam industry that endangers and rips off millions of consumers a year, world-renowned conjuror, escape artist, and skeptic James Randi has put one million dollars on the line.
In a video statement released at 10:23 a.m. (ET) today, Randi joined hundreds of consumer advocates in more than 25 countries in exposing so-called homeopathic remedies—scam medications with no active ingredients that are sold by major retailers with no warning to customers. Demonstrators around the world swallowed homeopathic products by the handful, in a worldwide day of action inspired by a lecture by James Randi in which he downed an entire bottle of homeopathic sleeping pills to show they had no effect.
Millionaire woo merchant Gillian McKeith has decided to libel Ben Goldacre. On her Twitter account she apparently called Ben Goldacres book Bad Science - "lies".
Now surely that isn't the smartest thing to do at the best of time, especially when you consider Bens excellent history when it comes to exposing dodgy claims.
Well a little war has now broken out and it seems that if the woman who legally can no longer call herself a Doctor, does not apologise and retract her claim soon, it could all get very messy.
Homeopathy should be banned from use in the NHS, the conference agreed.
The meeting voted overwhelmingly in favour of stopping commissioning or funding for homeopathic remedies or homeopathic hospitals in the health service.
UK training posts in homeopathic hospitals should also be scrapped, the conference said.
MUMBAI: The police arrested a 28-year-old homeopath, Virendra Doni, for allegedly raping a seven-year-old patient inside his clinic at Santa Cruz East on Friday. A police officer from Vakola police station said they have booked him for rape and that investigations are currently on.
The victim, who had been suffering from cough since a few days, was taken to the clinic by her grandfather on Friday morning. Police officials said that after examining the girl, Doni prescribed some medicines and asked her grandfather to buy them from a shop in the vicinity.
Senior police inspector Anil Kharade of Vakola police station said, “Doni committed the crime when the grandfather went to purchase the medicine.”
The WA Coroner has been told it is possible to find that prominent researcher, Peter Dingle, and a homeopath contributed to the death of a woman from cancer.
The Coroner has been examining the case of Doctor Dingle's wife, Penelope, who used homeothapy and nutritional supplements to treat rectal cancer.
During the inquest, it was alleged Doctor Dingle and the homeopath, Francine Scrayen, had misled Mrs Dingle into believing the therapies could cure her
PROMINENT Perth academic and researcher Dr Peter Dingle has denied playing Russian roulette with his wife Penelope's health, in an exclusive interview on Nine News.
Penelope Dingle died in 2005 from colorectal cancer, after refusing conventional treatments and instead relying on natural remedies. Peter Dingle says he could not persuade her to have surgery.
"This isn't Peter Dingle the academic or the researcher, this is Peter Dingle the husband, who just got lost and didn't know what was going on in the end," he says.
A coronial inquiry into the death of Penelope Dingle has heard the "cruel" home-remedies to which she subjected herself to try and cure her cancer.
Mrs Dingle, who was married to prominent West Australian professor Peter Dingle, died in 2005 after her rectal cancer had spread to other parts of her body.
She had initially refused surgery and conventional treatments for the cancer, which was first detected in 2003, opting to be treated with homeopathic remedies instead.
A homeopath who treated cancer patient Penelope Dingle until her disease became terminal told a coronial inquiry she never promised to cure her.
Coroner Alastair Hope is examining what role Belgian-born homeopath Francine Scrayen and Mrs Dingle's husband, Peter, played in her treatment, and whether greater regulation of alternative medicines is needed.
Mrs Dingle died in August 2005 after initially refusing surgery for rectal cancer, opting to be treated with alternative remedies instead.
According to correo.com “the story of Penelope Dingle, an Australian who died of cancer in 2005, is terrifying and shows how dangerous can be the so-called alternative medicines.”
Homeopathy was the option that she chose to fight her illness, replacing surgery and chemotherapy, but triggered her death at 45 years with terrible suffering.
The coroner Alastair Hope is the one who is investigating the case to determine “if the homeopath who treated her recommended her to abandon conventional therapies and whether to tighten controls on the homeopathic industry.”
THE homeopath who treated a woman that tried to use alternative therapies to cure her cancer has denied asking her patient to sign a letter indemnifying her role in the treatment.
At an inquest into the 2005 death of Penelope Dingle, classical homeopath Francine Scrayen told the Perth Coroners Court her role was reducing the symptoms of Mrs Dingle’s illness and it was “against the principle of homeopathy” to be able to cure the colorectal cancer.
Mrs Dingle, who attempted to treat the cancer with homeopathy and natural remedies, died in August 2005 after suffering a rectal tumour.
The Finnish association of skeptics’ stunt to demonstrate the inefficacy of homeopathic medicines did not result in any fatalities, the national daily Helsingin Sanomat reports.
“A group of self-identified sceptics staged a homeopathic “mass suicide attempt” in Helsinki on Wednesday 9 June. About seven activists of the association Skepsis ry knocked back eight bottles of homeopathic medicines during the stunt.
THE State Coroner has questioned why a prominent Perth toxicologist did not confront the homeopath who was treating his cancer-stricken wife as her illness worsened.
At an inquest into the death of Penelope Dingle in 2005, her husband Dr Peter Dingle today told the Perth Coroners Court he was eager not to break the trust of his ailing wife, pledging to “remain positive” as she battled colorectal cancer.
A nurse has described her horror during an inquest after seeing the emaciated condition of a woman who tried to treat her cancer with homeopathic therapies.
Deborah Combes, a registered nurse and family friend of the woman, Penelope Dingle, said she believed Dingle was dying after seeing her during a visit in 2003, PerthNow.com reports.
"Nothing could prepare me ... Pen was lying naked in the bath in an emaciated state," Ms Combes told the Perth Coroner's Court.
The wife of a prominent Perth author and toxicologist would have died "in excruciating pain" after refusing to have surgery for bowel cancer, a coronial inquest has been told.
"It's one of the most painful diseases you could possibly get, particularly when it gets to the advanced stages," colorectal surgeon Professor Cameron Platell told the inquest on Monday.
The State Coroner has been told a woman who shunned traditional medical treatment in favour of alternative therapies, was under the 'complete control of her homeopath'.
Penelope Dingle died of rectal cancer in 2005 after she refused traditional medical treatment and chose natural medicine instead.
An inquest is being held into her death to determine what role her homeopath and husband played in her treatment, and whether greater regulation of homeopathy is needed.
"A homeopath told a patient with rectal cancer to avoid mainstream medicine because alternative treatment alone could cure her, an inquest was told.
Perth's Penelope Dingle, the wife of prominent Perth environmental and nutritional toxicologist Peter Dingle, agreed to be treated with alternative therapies and refused to have surgery to remove the cancer soon after she was diagnosed in 2003.
Instead, she adhered to a strict diet and regular homeopath treatments before becoming so unwell she had to have emergency surgery to remove a bowel obstruction."
It what must be the dumbest suicide attempt in history, Billy Joels daughter Alexa Ray Joel apparently downed a bottle of Homeopathic pills. Maybe it was a cry for help, who knows, but trying to kill yourself, or appearing to try and kill yourself on Homeopathic pills is either very dumb, or very clever depending how you look at it.
I for one am very pleased she failed in her attempt to kill herself, if that is what it was. She is a beautiful young woman, with millions in the bank. She has her whole life ahead of her.
Perhaps the lesson here is that if you do want to make a cry for help, better to do it with homeopathy pills, than with real medicine.
Luca Monsellato was taken to hospital with a high fever and cold symptoms but failed to respond to emergency medical treatment and died.
In this vid I make a homeopathic solution of bleach and down it in one. 
A group of faith healers who claim they have miracle cures for cancer and HIV have been condemned as "irresponsible, even criminal" by a professor of complementary medicine, following a BBC Newsnight investigation.
From Penn and Teller: Bullshit! - Series 8 Episode 10 
Petition to implement the recommendations of the House Commons Science and Technology committee evidence check on Homeopathy
Skeptic James Randi challenges sellers of scam medications as hundreds stage worldwide "overdose" on homeopathic pills
Millionaire woo merchant Gillian McKeith has decided to libel Ben Goldacre. On her Twitter account she apparently called Ben Goldacres book Bad Science - "lies".
Homeopathy should be banned from use in the NHS, the conference agreed.
MUMBAI: The police arrested a 28-year-old homeopath, Virendra Doni, for allegedly raping a seven-year-old patient inside his clinic at Santa Cruz East on Friday. A police officer from Vakola police station said they have booked him for rape and that investigations are currently on. 
The WA Coroner has been told it is possible to find that prominent researcher, Peter Dingle, and a homeopath contributed to the death of a woman from cancer.
PROMINENT Perth academic and researcher Dr Peter Dingle has denied playing Russian roulette with his wife Penelope's health, in an exclusive interview on Nine News. 
The Finnish association of skeptics’ stunt to demonstrate the inefficacy of homeopathic medicines did not result in any fatalities, the national daily Helsingin Sanomat reports.
It what must be the dumbest suicide attempt in history, Billy Joels daughter Alexa Ray Joel apparently downed a bottle of Homeopathic pills. Maybe it was a cry for help, who knows, but trying to kill yourself, or appearing to try and kill yourself on Homeopathic pills is either very dumb, or very clever depending how you look at it.