With thanks to Health News 7.2.10:
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With thanks to US Magazine.com 3.2.2010:
On Monday, Tiger Woods’ wife Elin lifted her sunglasses to reveal puffy, dark-circles under her eyes as she picked up daughter Sam, 2, from school in Orlando. As usual, Elin, 30, was not wearing her wedding ring.
Us Weekly recently reported that Woods’ behavior has taken such a toll on Elin that she has lost nearly 10 pounds and turned to homeopathic remedies to fall asleep. Read the rest of this entry »
Following the success of Boots sales of homeopathic remedies, and the fact that Alternative medicine sales soar as consumers shake off cynicism, Martindale have decided to follow suit and advise on homeopathic remedies:
Some people think that, since their purported mechanism of action does not have a convincing scientific foundation and since there is insufficient published clinical evidence, their inclusion is not justified.
But the fact remains that homoeopathic remedies have found their way on to the shelves in many pharmacies across the world, and the Editor’s decision is that they should no longer be ignored.
Thus, in the Martindale tradition of providing sound guidance on identification and nomenclature, we are in the process of including information about the ingredients of the mother tincture and recording the names used in official homeopathic sources such as the German Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia, the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States, and the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of India.
However, we have refrained from commenting on any suggested uses.
With thanks to the Daily Mail 26.1.2010:
Sales of alternative medicines are booming as consumers shake off their cynicism – proving the old adage there is no such thing as bad publicity!
Analysts say the market has grown by 18 per cent in two years and is worth £213million a year. And they predict sales will increase by 33 per cent to £282million over the next four years as more patients reject prescription drugs in favour of natural remedies. Read the rest of this entry »
With thanks to Mike Adams at Natural News:
Will the next generation of docs turn up their noses at alternative therapies such as acupuncture, yoga, herbs and vitamins – just like the majority of the current crop of docs?
In what may come as a surprise to many mainstream physicians, the answer to those questions may be a resounding “no”. Read the rest of this entry »
With thanks to Mike Adams at Natural News:
In the world of medicine, “skeptics” claim to be the sole protectors of intellectual truth.
Everyone who disagrees with them is just a quack, they insist.
Briefly stated, “skeptics” are in favor of vaccines, mammograms, pharmaceuticals and chemotherapy.
They are opponents of nutritional supplements, herbal medicine, chiropractic care, massage therapy, energy medicine, homeopathy, prayer and therapeutic touch. Read the rest of this entry »
The new 174 page annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers, published in the journal Clinical Toxicology, shows zero deaths from multiple vitamins; zero deaths from any of the B vitamins; zero deaths from vitamins A, C, D, or E; and zero deaths from any other vitamin.
Also, there are no recorded deaths from any CAM product or procedure.
Unfortunately, there an estimated *999,936 deaths annually from iatrogenic causes, and estimated 16.4 million Annual Unnecessary Medical Events – projected figures show that a total of 164 million people, approximately 56% of the population of the United States, have been treated unnecessarily by the medical industry,
*Professor Barbara Starfield Distinguished Service Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health in Baltimore, estimates 225,000 – 284,000 iatrogenic deaths annually,
With thanks to the European Commission website 8.1.2010:
This number tops the 100 million mark in the EU alone.
However, the challenge faced by CAM practitioners is the lack of funding and scientific cooperation that hampers this area of medicine. Enter the EU-funded CAMbrella project that is determined to solve this problem. With EUR 1.5 million in support under the ‘Health’ Theme of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), CAMbrella kick-starts on 1 January 2010.
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With thanks to the Guardian Journalist Zac Goldsmith 5 January 2010:
Every few months, an organisation called Sense About Science (SAS) issues a pamphlet that makes fun of celebrities getting their science wrong. It is full of what it regards to be false assertions by celebrities about the benefits of homeopathy and so on, and ends with an offer by the organisation to act as a fact-checking service.
Newspapers always lap it up. The problem is that they have fallen into a trap again. While they quote Sense About Science with the kind of deference usually reserved for the Royal Society, the organisation is at best suspect. Read the rest of this entry »
With thanks to the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine:
Comparative evaluation of homeopathy and allopathy within the Parisian hospital system, 1849–1851 by Michael Dean, Department of Health Sciences, University of York, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 2010;103:34-36, © 2010 Royal Society of Medicine,
Over a 15 year period and involving many thousands of patients, Jean Paul Tessier conducted an open trial comparing homeopathy with allopathy in the Sainte Marguerite Hospital, the Beaujon Hospital and the Enfants Malades Hospital, which ultimately proved so clearly in favour of homeopathy, it spread rapidly throughout Europe.
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