Paris — France’s health watchdog recommended on Friday that social security stop reimbursing patients for homeopathic drugs, citing insufficient effectiveness.

For nine months the HAS watchdog investigated the effects of the alternative medicine on 24 medical conditions, including anxiety, foot warts and acute breathing infections and said it did not find sufficient scientific evidence to justify continued state reimbursement of homeopathic drugs...

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