Further help for the besieged people of Ukraine has been delivered this week by the World Medical Association and other medical bodies in the Ukraine Medical Help Fund. A shipment of warming tents, generators and fan heaters has been set up in the cities of Kiev, Oblast, Mykolaiv and Kherson…
Sara Pedron and colleagues investigate whether a simple messaging intervention delivered to individuals with high blood pressure could motivate healthcare seeking behaviour, lifestyle changes, or improved health outcomes.
Comparing vaccination acceptance and outcomes of COVID-19 infection between OSA adhering to the CPAP therapy and those who rejected CPAP and surgical therapy
As soon as those ivory tower scientists starting paying attention, they started to realize that homeopathy just doesn’t deliver the goods. Even leaving the extreme scientific implausibility aside, the clinical evidence is not there. Homeopathy does not work. After 200 years homeopathy has nothing to show for itself scientifically, and it is hard to argue that this is due to bias against this practice when Germany considers itself the home of homeopathy, with a massive cultural bias in its favor.
Ernst also noted that the response of homeopaths, especially when their sales started to drop, was typical for
CAM proponents – they did not marshal better evidence, look inward at their practices, or talk about reform. No – they went on a marketing blitz. Further, this marketing was largely framed around vicious personal attacks against the scientists who were simply pointing out that homeopathy is literally nothing. As Ernst points out, their personal attacks took familiar forms: �