With thanks to Ian Quinn at Pulse Today 26.7.10
In its response to a report from the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, which issued a damning verdict on the practice and called for GPs to be barred from referring patients under the NHS, the Department of Heath said it would not be stepping in – despite MPs’ concerns over the lack of evidence and regulation of homeopathic treatments. Read the rest of this entry »
*Homeopathy as replacement to antibiotics in the case of Escherichia coli diarrhoea in neonatal piglets. Camerlink I, Ellinger L, Bakker EJ, Lantinga EA (2010). Homeopathy, 99; 57–62.
The overuse of antibiotics in poultry, beef cattle and swine production poses a serious threat to human health, animal health and the environment. Sustainable alternatives to antibiotics are desperately needed.
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Characteristics of cancer patients using homeopathy compared with those in conventional care: a cross-sectional study. Guethlin C, Walach H, Naumann J, Bartsch HH, Rostock M. Institute for General Practice, Johann-Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany. Ann Oncol. 2010 May;21(5):1094-9.
Homeopathic treatment is sought by cancer patients at a different phase during the course of the disease, which has particular implications for research. However, expectancies toward the benefit of the treatment as well as QoL data are similar.
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Decreased Intensity of Japanese Encephalitis Virus Infection in Chick Chorioallantoic Membrane Under Influence of Ultradiluted Belladonna Extract. American Journal of Infectious Diseases 6 (2): 24-28, 2010.
The homeopathic remedy Belladonna is effective in preventing Japanese Encephalitis (JE), says a recent study conducted by the Department of Microbiology at the School of Tropical Medicine in Kolkata, the Department of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology at the School of Tropical Medicine in Kolkata, the University of Health Sciences in Kolkata, the Department of Pathology and Microbiology in West Bengal, in collaboration with the the Drug Proving Research Centre of the Central Council for Research in Homeopathy (CCRH), and the Government of India in Kolkata, and the Department of AYUSH Ministry of Health in New Delhi.
With thanks to WDDTY 7.7.2010:
On 28 June 2010 during the prestigious 60 anniversary conference of Nobel Laureates held in Germany,Professor Luc Montagnier, a French virologist who won the Nobel prize for discovering a link between HIV and AIDS, has shocked fellow Nobel prize-winners by telling them that water has a memory that continues even after many dilutions.
Jul 3
Gore Vidal on Youtube reveals all – how the media is lazy, and not used to investigating anything or getting to the heart of matters….
Those who want to investigate life don’t go in for journalism because journalists are not able to investigate anything…. it’s all fiction – a con act – and the media obey bigger, richer interests than those of the public, who they often hold in contempt…
The truth is ‘irrelevant’ and ‘everybody lies’…
What they do is whatever is their transgression, whatever are their faults, they lie and apply it to the other person. That confuses everything….
Jun 22
With thanks to The Peninsula 22.6.2010:
A proposal to open up the Qatari healthcare sector to include internationally approved branches of alternative medicine has been pending for long. A clear decision on this issue can be expected very soon, a senior SCH official said yesterday. Read the rest of this entry »
Ludtke R, Rutten AL. The conclusions on the effectiveness of homeopathy highly depend on the set of analyzed trials. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 2008, 61(12):1197-204. [PubMed abstract]
Rutten AL, Stolper CF. The 2005 meta-analysis of homeopathy: the importance of post-publication data. Homeopathy. 2008, 97(4):169-77. [PubMed abstract]
Based on all high-quality studies, homeopathy had a significant effect beyond placebo…. Shang’s results and conclusions are less definite than had been presented.
With thanks to the British Medical Journal
How much do we know?
For clinicians and patients we wish to highlight treatments that work and for which the benefits outweigh the harms, especially those treatments that may currently be underused.
We also wish to highlight treatments that do not work or for which the harms outweigh the benefits.
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Homeopathic drugs Natrum sulphuricum and Carcinosin prevent azo dye-induced hepatocarcinogenesis in mice. Nandini Bhattacharjee, Pathikrit Banerjee and Anisur Rahman Khuda-Bukhshh. Indian Journal of Biochemistry & Biophysics’, Vol-46, August 2009, PP. 307-318.
The study was undertaken to examine whether Carcinosin-200 (Car-200) could provide additional ameliorative effect, if used intermittently with Natrum sulphuricum-30 (Nat sulph-30) against hepatocarcinogenesis induced by chronic feeding of p-dimethylaminoazobenzene (p-DAB) and phenobarbital (PB) in mice (Mus musculus).
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