BMJ

Should NICE Evaluate Complementary and Alternative Medicines?

Lynda Frank, Cyril Chantler and Michael Dixon

http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/4600/1/4600.pdf

House of Commons debates

Tuesday, 5 February 2008

Oral Answers to Questions — Health

Homeopathy

(scroll to top of the webpage to read all)

http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2008-02-05a.777.4&s=homeopathy#g778.3

You cannot get the article unless a subscriber to Pulse, so printing it all:

Government probe following GP homeopathy debate

11 Feb 08

By Nigel Praities

The Government plans to ask NICE to compare the cost-effectiveness of complementary therapies with other treatments, a health minister revealed this week.

The comments came after a Pulse investigation – showing over a fifth of PCTs have cancelled or reduced homeopathy contracts since 2006 – was discussed by MPs in a debate in about homeopathy provision in the UK.

Health minister Dawn Primarolo said PCTs needed to take the clinical and cost-effectiveness of complementary therapies into account and NICE could be a good source of this information.

'The issue for the Department is to ensure that PCTs are aware of the evidence where it is available. We would certainly wish to consider where it is appropriate for NICE to consider complementary therapies alongside other treatments,' she said.

Dr Kailash Chand, a GP in Ashton under Lyme in Lancashire and a trained acupuncturist himself, said he was happy that NICE may be involved.

'Complementary medicine does work, but it does need regulating and supervising otherwise there is the danger that any Tom, Dick and Harry can claim to be a provider of complementary medicine,' he said.

Professor Edzard Ernst, professor of complementary medicine at Peninsula Medical School, Exeter, also welcomed the proposal but warned the lack of efficacy data for many complementary therapies would prevent NICE comparing then with pharmacological treatments.

'There are very few studies which compare acupuncture with anti-emetics, for example. The evidence does not exist, so NICE cannot evaluate it,' he said.

Government probe following GP homeopathy debate
Pulse - London,UK

"Why do Famous People and Cultural Heroes Use Homeopathy as Their Preferred Health Care System?" by Madeleine Innocent 12/2/08

PR Web - Ferndale, WA, USA.

Madeleine is a consultant homeopath in Western Australia

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/2/prweb689733.htm

Madeleine's website.  Her slogan is:

 'Health, Happiness and Homeopathy' !!

I wrote to her and suggested that we make car stickers!  My best one to date is 'Homeopathy Heals'.

http://www.twolegsandfour.com.au/home.html

another good one...

Love, sex, chocolate and homeopathy

Feb 12 2008

http://www.fedwaymirror.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=91&cat=23&id=1155105&more=0

And here a vicious one

Africa: Homeopathy is 'Not Effective'

12 February 2008

Dr. Mark Colvin

Internationally, homeopathy faces cuts in state subsidies because of question-marks about its efficacy. South Africa should follow suit, as this complementary medicine is based on an "absurd premise", argues Dr. Mark Colvin

* Colvin is Director of Maromi Health Research. He has 20 years experience in research into public health issues. - Zeus comment: Maromi Health must be something new because can't find anything on it other than him!  I found this on Dr. Mark Colvin:

Principal investigator Dr Mark Colvin of the MRC's HIV prevention and vaccine research unit - South Africa.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200802120681.html

Support for homeopathy from India: Benefits and risks of Homoeopathy: a rejoinder to the article published in the Lancet
http://homeopathy.wildfalcon.com/archives/2008/02/15/2130/

List of homeopathic preparations

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_homeopathic_preparations

Electronic health records in complementary and alternative medicine.

Smith K, Kalra D.

PMID: 18242123 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18242123?ordinalpos=8&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

Advising patients on the use of complementary and alternative medicine.

Jonas WB.

PMID: 11680284 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11680284?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVAbstractPlusDrugs1

Two new books anti-alternative medicine books from Ernst due out soon..

We have decided to coin the new name Pharma Pimp.

Healing, Hype, or Harm?: Scientists Investigate Complementary or Alternative Medicine (Societas) (Paperback)
by Edzard Ernst (Editor)

http://www.amazon.com/Healing-Hype-Harm-Investigate-Complementary/dp/1845401182

'Trick Or Treatment?: Alternative Medicine On Trial' by Edzard Ernst

http://www.play.com/Books/Books/4-/3703713/-/Product.html?searchstring=trick+or+treatment&searchsource=0

The Hollywood Survival Kit - Pocket Pack

The Pocket Pack contains:

http://www.hollywoodsurvivalkit.net/pocketpack.html

This is very interesting and relates to the witchhunt we are experiencing today....

Sarah Blakesley Chase and Homeopathy
By Sue Young, RSHom.
suffrage Sarah Blakesley Chase graduated from the Cleveland Homeopathic College and the Alfred University in Allegany County. Sarah ran a constant battle with Anthony Comstock for selling contraceptive devices and for performing ...
Sue Young Homeopathy - http://homeopathy.wildfalcon.com

William Henry Holcombe and Homeopathy
By Sue Young

William Henry Holcombe 1825-1893 was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy when he witnessed its success in the 1849 cholera epidemic and began his own experiments on homeopathy.
In 1852 Holcome was appointed physician and surgeon to the Mississippi State Hospital when the trustees changed the hospital over to homeopathy as a result of the success of homeopathic treatment of the ‘great scourge of the South‘. ...
Sue Young Homeopathy - http://homeopathy.wildfalcon.com

Homeopathy for uterine fibroids

Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients,  Nov, 2004  by Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman,  Robert Ullman

[Some material in this article is excerpted from Whole Woman Homeopathy by Dr. Reichenberg-Ullman]

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0ISW/is_256/ai_n6258844

Victoria Woodhull and Homeopathy
By Sue
Victoria Woodhull 1838 - 1927 was the first woman to run for the American Presidency in 1872, and she was also famous for her interest in free love (the Woodhull Freedom Foundation is still active today), spiritualism, homeopathy, ...
Sue Young Homeopathy - http://homeopathy.wildfalcon.com

Homeopathy For Infertility In New York

16/2/08

http://nextarticles-relationship.blogspot.com/2008/02/homeopathy-for-infertility-in-new-york.html

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