With thanks to Modern Medicare 6.1.12 :

The international inaugural function of The World Institute of Sensation Homoeopathy (WISH) was held on Jan 5, 2012 at ‘the other song: International Academy of Advanced Homoeopathy’, at Andheri, Mumbai. The 10-day meeting was attended by 40 leading teachers in homeopathy from 15 countries including the US, UK, Germany, France, Israel, Egypt, Canada, Switzerland, Spain, Austria, Netherlands, Brazil, Russia, Japan, and India.  Read the rest of this entry »

With thanks to the Times of India 21.3.2011:

NEW DELHI: Western countries like Britain may persist with their scathing attacks on homeopathy, calling it unscientific and for which dozens of systematic reviews have failed to produce convincing evidence of effectiveness. Despite the carping critics, homeopathy, which is around 250 years old, continues to be tremendously popular.

A study has said Indian homeopathy treatment market is likely to grow 30% annually and pegged at Rs 4,600 crore in the next few years.

Globally, the homeopathy market is estimated at Rs 26,300 crore, with France being the largest contributor. Last year, the size of domestic homeopathy market was around Rs 2,758 crore, according to a study by Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM). Union health ministry officials said over 100 million Indians depend solely on homeopathy. This figure is likely to exceed 16 crore in the next three years.

India has over five lakh registered homeopaths and around 20,000 more are being added every year. There are 185 homoeopathic colleges, which offer 33 PG courses. Besides, there are 11,000 homoeopathic hospital beds. D S Rawat, secretary general of ASSOCHAM, pointed out to a practical problem. Homeopathic medicines are hardly available in 15-25 outlets in a city as compared to the reach of allopathic drugs.

But abroad, the situation is different. Though there are very few practitioners of homeopathy, the medicines are well distributed. This explains a big market across France, the UK and the US. In the UK, the homeopathy market is pegged at 46 million pounds by 2012.

World Health Organiation says homeopathy is practiced in 66 countries and treatment is individualized.

With thanks to The Hawaii Independent 7th October 2011:

In 1900, an estimated 20 percent of doctors in the United States were homeopaths, but because of societal changes, its popularity declined while European interest interest in homeopath remained steady. Recent decades have seen a strong resurgence of homeopathic interest in the United States in particular.

According to the 2007 National Health Interview Survey, which included a comprehensive survey of complementary and alternative medicine use by Americans, an estimated 3.9 million U.S. adults and approximately 900,000 children used homeopathy in the previous year. The Nutrition Business Journal reported that in the U.S. consumer sales of homeopathic treatments reached $870 million in 2009, an increase of 10 percent from the previous year.

Hawaii has no shortage of homeopathic doctors and a large array can be found on all of the main islands.

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With thanks to ASSOCHAM Friday, March 18, 2011:

Indian homeopathy treatment market is likely to grow 30% annually and reach a size of Rs. 4,600 crore as the number of takers is growing fast within and outside the country, apex chamber ASSOCHAM said today. 

Globally, the homeopathy market is estimated at Rs. 26,300 crore with France being the largest contributor, according to the study by The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM). Last year, the domestic homeopathy market size was about Rs. 2,758 crore. Read the rest of this entry »

With thanks to Ontario’s National Post 29.9.11:

A proposal by Ontario’s medical regulator to take a more liberal approach to homeopathy, acupuncture and other alternative health care has drawn sharp criticism from some national doctors’ groups, who warn the draft rules mark a shift away from scientifically backed treatment.

Others are applauding the more inclusive tone adopted by the College of Physicians and Surgeons, whose suggested policy highlights a growing, if controversial, legitimacy around non-conventional health care in Canada.

The Ontario college, which licenses and disciplines physicians in the province, said it decided to revisit its policy partly because of the apparent increase in popularity of alternative care. The new document says doctors should respect patients’ wishes to try non-conventional care, avoid expressing personal judgments of alternative medicine and require “sound evidence” but not necessarily clinical trials to back up any alternative treatments they use. Read the rest of this entry »

With thanks to CubaStandard.com 25th August 2011:

After 15 years of development, Cuban state company Labiofam S.A. landed its first export deal for Vidatox, a tumor-fighting homeopathic medicine, the Cuban foreign ministry announced after Minsk-based PharmLand LLC agreed to market and distribute the product in Belarus. 

See http://avilian.co.uk/2010/12/cuba-to-release-new-%E2%80%9Chomeopathic%E2%80%9D-drug-against-cancer/ Read the rest of this entry »