ECHAMP members meet key EU decision makers
35 ECHAMP members from 14 EU Member States met 25 Members of the European Parliament and five health attachés in Brussels in November. They presented MEPs with a comprehensive ‘Better Regulation’ document, identifying the problems in the current European legislation for homeopathic and anthroposophic medicinal products and proposing possible solutions.  MEPs showed strong support for ECHAMP’s initiative.
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Study in Lancet under scrutiny
Research results published in the Lancet in 2005 on the lack of effectiveness of homeopathy are less conclusive than reported. So concludes a thorough investigation into the set-up of the 21 placebo-controlled clinical trials investigated by Shang et al.
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Passion needed to promote integrative medicine
Professor Stefan Willich spoke at the first European Congress on Integrative Medicine of the need for a better degree of understanding in the present medical world. Passion is needed to advance the idea of integrative medicine across all borders, and to form alliances in research and health care so as to find ways of integrating non-conventional therapies into mainstream Western medicine.
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CAM in Europe – Quo vadis?
The third European Symposium of the Association of Natural Medicine in Europe (ANME) shed new light on the situation of traditional medical approaches in a number of countries in Europe and on the difficulties faced by patients seeking complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) as their first choice for healthcare.
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Internet sources of pharmaceutical law
In this article, lawyer Johan Hulshof discusses a number of internet sources for those who wish to stay up to date with pharmaceutical law.  It includes sources with an international, European, and/or national scope. It includes both governmental or public sources, and private sources of pharmaceutical law. Read more

Editor: Karen Chapman, ECHAMP PR and Communications Consultant