Patients with headaches often seek so-called alternative medicine (SCAM), including chiropractic care. Chiropractic spinal manipulation is one of the most commonly used techniques for these patients; ...

World Homeopathy Day is celebrated on April 10 every year. It aims at marking the importance of homeopathy and its contributions to medicine. It also honors the memory of Dr. Christian Friedrich ...

It has been reported that a five-year-old boy died after being “incinerated” inside a pressurised oxygen chamber while ...

In a recent post, I mentioned a new report which allegedly claimed that "employing chiropractors in the [English] health service could save £1.5 billion". Thanks to 'Blue Wode', we can now read the ...

A long article on chiropractic casts doubt that chiropractic is useful. Here is an abbreviated version of it: The chemistry and biology graduate from the University of Georgia, 28-year-old Caitlin ...

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The fact that animal parts are used for so-called alternative medicine (SCAM) is well-known. The problem has so far been related mostly to China and TCM. A recent article reminds us of the fact that t ...

The aim of this recent review was to investigate the efficacy of non-surgical and non-interventional treatments for adults with low back pain compared with placebo. It included all randomised ...

This "randomized controlled clinical trial" (has anyone ever seen a randomized trial without a control group? - No, therefore, the correct term is "ramdomized clinical trial (RCT)") aimed to compare ...

Recently, several papers reported about PP353 as a new 'wonder drug' for chronic low back pain (cLBP). The reason is that Persica Pharmaceuticals Limited (Persica) announced positive results of a ...

The US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy (JFKJr) famously claimed that vitamin A could work “as a prophylaxis” of measles infection. That claim is not just wrong, it also is dangerous. Overuse of ...