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Acupuncture and infertility
The British Fertility Society says there is no case for acupuncture in conjunction with IVF treatment. Others say the trials are unclear.
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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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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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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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What's realistic for a client with multiple problems?
A single parent with a Body Mass Index of 48 (i.e. seriously overweight) who also has advanced arthritis and is caring for a severely autistic child who never sleeps for more than two hours at a time will find it almost impossible to look after their own health and wellbeing.
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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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Is alternative medicine safe?
A fifty minute consumer programme talks around the issues of 'alternative' medicine.
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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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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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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.