I recently stumbled across a long-forgotten interview* that I gave precisely 20 years ago. It is lengthy and fairly boring - except for its ending. The last question Phin Foster asked me was this: In ...
I just came across this paper entitled "Development of national consensus-based recommendations for history taking, examination and clinical management of infants in chiropractic practice", and found ...
A new and surprising partnership between Exeter University and Saudi Arabia has been announced. It was created to deliver an MA in “Applied Security and Strategy” to senior Saudi military officers and ...
John Hunter was once one of the most pre-eminent surgeons in Europe. Though he died early in Hahnemann’s life, Hunter was ...
I hear this phrase far too often, particularly from patients who use homeopathy or another so-called alternative medicine (SCAM) to treat a serious illness. They usually employ this argument to ...
It has been reported that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lied to Congress, an offence that is punishable by up to 5 years in prison. He told senators during his January 2025 confirmation hearings that his 2019 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This single-center, randomised clinical trial compared the efficacy of distraction and therapeutic touch for reducing labor ...