Spare a thought for the 130+ individuals who lost their sense of smell after taking various zinc-containing Zicam intranasal products. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned users to stop using said cold remedies, and advised its manufacturer – Matrixx Initiatives – that these …
According to Professor David Colquhoun, yes, it is. You must read his letter to the British Medical Journal regarding the MHRA’s decision to register Nelsons Arnicare Arnica 30c homeopathic pillules as treatment for sprains and bruises: […] MHRA label seems to be illegal The strap …
News that the NHS will offer acupuncture to back pain sufferers has delighted some. For a start, as the Guardian reports, the condition costs the UK over £5.1bn annually and leads to 5m lost working days. It affects, we are told, “one in three adults …
Dr. Shaun Holt … because they’ve got no idea. According to a survey by researchers Shaun Holt and Andrew Gilbey in the latest edition of the New Zealand Medical Journal, that is. Dr. Holt reports in a press release: 92% of users of homeopathic remedies …
An American cardiologist who was “drinking himself into an early grave” has told the Daily Mail about his “fairytale recovery”. Interesting choice of words, that. Dr Olivier Ameisen claims that taking a drug prescribed for muscle spasm has allowed him to quit suicidal binge drinking …
Oh dear. Liz Jones is at it again. The self described “super bright” woman whose chief journalistic output for the last few years has been moaning about her pointless relationship with the obnoxious Nirpal Dhaliwal has found a new subject to entertain her public: the …
A worrying trend in the NHS at the moment is to offer “catch-all therapies” that claim to help with numerous different ailments. One such therapy that is gaining momentum within several Primary Care Trusts is Human Givens Therapy. It is also endorsed by the usually …
The effect of acupuncture on pain relief is so small that it “seems to lack clinical relevance and cannot be clearly distinguished from bias,” a new study shows. Researchers from the Nordic Cochrane Centre in Copenhagen published their results in the BMJ yesterday. The systematic …
The new year has brought an interesting development in the relationship between the state and the alternative medicine industry. On Monday the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC), a register for practitioners of alternative medicine opened its doors for the first time. At first glance …
What kind of a person names a miracle cure after themselves? Ádám Kovács Damian Thompson has already dissected the vacuous puff-piece that appeared this week about the so-called miracle cure CellAdam. If one ever needs to find a perfect example of the modus operandi of quackery, …