LONDON, May 23 (UPI) -- Leading British scientists have urged the National Health Service to stop paying for so-called alternative medical treatments, the Times of London reported.
The letter written to every NHS trust is a direct challenge to Prince Charles' campaign to expand access to alternative medicines.
Signatories include Nobel Prize winner James Black and Academy of Medical Science President Keith Peters, the newspaper reported.
Instead of spending limited dollars on "unproven or disproved" alternative medicine treatments, NHS trusts should stick to conventional treatments "based on solid evidence," the scientists wrote.
"At a time when we are struggling to gain access for our patients to Herceptin, which is absolutely proven to extend survival in breast cancer, I find it appalling that the NHS should be funding a therapy like homeopathy that is utterly bogus," protest organizer and University College London Professor Michael Baum told the Times.
