CHELATION THERAPY HAS been around for decades as a treatment for toxic metal poisoning. But, there have also been claims that the therapy could help several other conditions. Experts aren't so sure.

For many years, chelation therapy has been a controversial approach to cardiovascular conditions. Some people have embraced it enthusiastically, while most physicians have rejected it emphatically.

Although suffering from significant imperfections, the TACT trial is a daring step toward a better understanding of how chelation therapy might affect heart disease. It seemed like a crazy notion in ...

People with diabetes who had suffered a heart attack derived no clinical benefit from edetate disodium-based chelation, a therapy that draws lead and other toxic metals linked to increased risk of ...