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Health and politics blog
Integrated health is not just a socially progressive plan to make healthcare better - it's a fiercely contested political idea, which many misunderstand or would like to block. There is also legitimate debate about what integrated health should look like, or the strength of evidence for different modalities.
This blog follows the debate as it plays out in the media - particularly the UK press. Much of what we post here will be links - follow the stories and judge for yourself.
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Mar10
Acupuncture and infertility
The British Fertility Society says there is no case for acupuncture in conjunction with IVF treatment. FIH says the evidence is unclear - a Cochrane collaboration review in 2008 found benefit if acupuncture was used on the day of IVF treatment.
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Mar10
Doctors and patients must work together
NHS funding is limited -doctors and patients must work together to find local solutions to problems.
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Mar09
Harvard medical students award an 'F' to university for pharmaceutical company ties
Students at Harvard Medical School are protesting at the undue influence of the pharmaceutical industry in their classrooms.
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Mar06
Professor Ernst damaged by FIH?
Is an old row with FIH responsible for the possible closure of the complementary therapy unit at Peninsula Medical School?
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Feb25
This homeopathy row has nothing to do with placebos
Does the huge row about homeopathy on the NHS have more to do with identity politics than science?
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Feb24
Is alternative medicine safe?
A fifty minute consumer programme talks around the issues of 'alternative' medicine.
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Feb22
Parliamentary report on homeopathy out - and the DH's response
Newspaper reporting on the Science and Technology committee's report on the NHS which says that homeopathy should not be available on the NHS. The Department of Health's first response.
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Feb19
Acupuncture 'better than drugs for period pain'
Review of many randomised controlled trials finds acupucture is better than drugs for period pain
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Feb17
Michael Pittilo's letter to the Times on herbal regulation
FIH is extremely sorry to hear of the death of our friend and colleague Professor Michael Pittilo. In a letter to the Times last week he reiterated the case for herbal statutory regulation, one of his long-standing interests.
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Feb17
A guilty plea in the Chinese TCM poisoning case - and further calls for herbal practitioner regulation
Chinese medicine provider pleas guilty to poisoning a customer. The EHPA argue that this shows how vital regulation has become.
