We are well into the flu season, and people have different strategies for preventing or treating viral infections. Of course, some people choose dietary supplements instead of a flu shot. Lately, many ...

PHOENIX - A state lawmaker trying to repeal the medical marijuana law has decided it's also time to scrap a state law that allows Arizonans to dose themselves with another federally banned drug. Rep.

Medical experts said the cancer drug Laetrile was dangerous quackery. It became a national sensation anyway. If you can't access your feeds, please contact customer support. Thanks! Check your phone ...

Filmmaker Eric Merola revisits the story in his documentary “Second Opinion: Laetrile at Sloan-Kettering,” which opened Friday. “I think most people will agree there hasn’t been much progress in the ...

Laetrile, which is found apricot seeds, has been used by quacks to "treat" cancer for 70 years. It works, assuming that your goal is to poison yourself. But cancer claims, which were ridiculous in the ...

PHOENIX — A veteran lawmaker says the time has finally come to tell Arizonans they can’t legally use cyanide as a cancer treatment. Sen. John Kavanagh, R-Fountain Hills, said it was a mistake for ...

Discussion of the cancer-fighting properties of a chemical (variously referred to as amygdalin, laetrile, or "vitamin B17") has been a fixture of the so-called alternative medicine movement for ...

Back in the 70s preliminary, incomplete results on a substance called Laetrile were released indicating that this derivative from apricot pits inhibited the growth of cancerous tumors in mice. In ...

Laetrile is promoted as an alternative cancer treatment. There is not enough reliable evidence that it works. Laetrile is a partly man-made (synthetic) form of the natural substance amygdalin.

Eric Merola, director of two documentaries about controversial cancer doctor Stanislaw Burzynski, has set his sights on Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s internal coverup of positive ...