This single-center, randomised clinical trial compared the efficacy of distraction and therapeutic touch for reducing labor ...

The medical world, in its deplorable lack of imagination, has spent decades under the misconception that infectious diseases require widespread immunization programs. Enter Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who ...

Heidi Overton, President Trump’s nominee to lead the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has called for a political reorientation of US medical research. Specifically, she argued that agencies like ...

Germany - the birthland of homeopathy - has finally decided to stop reimbursing homeopathic and anthroposophic medicine through statutory health insurance. The decision marks an important attempt to ...

Dolly Rebecca Parton (1946–2026) was an American singer‑songwriter, actress, businesswoman and philanthropist, widely known as the “Queen of Country.” Born into a poor farming family in Tennessee, she ...

Remember Didier Raoult? He famously published irreproducible findings claiming that hydroxychloroquine worked for Covid; he has thus featured on this blog before, e.g.: Didier Raoult has now turned to ...

McMaster University has launched a trial to evaluate the Lightning Process (LP). We have discussed the LP before, e.g.: Almost anyone can recover from long Covid: just pay a lot of money for the ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. assault on US public health seems relentless. As this is a matter that affects not just the US but is bound to spill over to much of the rest of the world, it is of great concern ...

A subset of patients uses so-called alternative medicine (SCAM) despite advances in gastrointestinal (GI) cancer treatment. Given that the impact of SCAM utilization on survival remains not well ...

Nathan Cofnas, has been in the news a lot recently … for all the wrong reasons. It was he who started the dispute about Jason Arday’s plagiarism that ended so tragically with Arday’s death. But who is ...

Accurate disclosure of conflicts of interest (COI) is vital for trust and transparency in clinical research, but few studies have evaluated these disclosures in the manual therapy literature. The prim ...

Before a medical paper gets published (as my expertise is only in medicine, this post is focussed on medical papers), it normally gets reviewed by external experts. These experts often recommend minor ...