Randomized clinical trials (RCTs) provide the optimal design for evaluating the effects of Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) on patient outcomes. However, how trialists have designed, conducted, and ...
It is hard to keep up with the plethora of overt nonsense that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tells the unsuspecting public. Recently ...
As we have often discussed on this blog, homeopathy is an obsolete placebo therapy. Many consumers find this hard to believe. One reason for their disbelief is the fact that many doctors seem to still ...
So-called 'paper mills' have become a growing challenge to the integrity of academic research, yet there has been a need for ...
“Male climacteric syndrome” (MCS) is said to affect quality of life through psychological, somatic, sexual, and endocrine-related symptoms. This study tested whether a botanical formulation containing ...
For centuries, philosophers and other smart people have insisted on this neat differentiation: what separates humanity from beasts is reason. However, in the light of ...
Honesty should, in my view, be the foundation of life - and that, of course, includes healthcare. Patients entrust clinicians with their health believing that diagnoses are accurate, treatments are ...
It is feared that Europe-wide more than 10,000 excess deaths have occurred during the late-June heatwave week of June 22–28 alone. Such alarming figures beg the question: How exactly does heat bring ...
When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested that public health policy could afford to “give infectious disease a break for about eight years,” it revealed a fundamental misunderstanding of biological threats ...
In a recent decision by Ontario’s Licence Appeal Tribunal, health insurer Aviva was successful in defeating claims for thousands of dollars in chiropractic treatments. At the same time, Aviva was ...