More criticism of NCCAM
Earlier this year a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine reported, “saw palmetto did not improve symptoms...
CAM use among women with breast cancer
The use of CAM is widespread in this group of patients. The Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland reports between...
CAMophobia at NEJM
The New England Journal of Medicine published an article in 1999 that made an erroneous association between poorer psychological outcomes...
Unintended consequences: treating iron deficiency leads to feminism
Here, from California Medicine Man via Instapundit, is one of the most important advances in medicine.
Who is Matthias Rath, and why is he in trouble with the law?
The trial of alternative medicine practitioner Dr. Matthias Rath started last week in Hamburg. Dr. Rath advocates a vitamin treatment...
New sunscreen will be available this fall
The Food and Drug Administration approved Anthelios SX today. It is a moisturizer and sun blocker from L’Oreal. Anthelios SX...
Follow-up: Becoming trans fat free
Earlier this month this site discussed trans fats, including the initiative to make Chicago the first major city in the...
Biofeedback and functional constipation
Medscape has a summary of presentations from this year’s Digestive Disease Week (DDW) meeting, which is the world’s largest gathering...
Not your typical vacation
Do you have vacation time coming in 2006? Herbalgram.org has listed the 2006 events calendar. Rather than the same Caribbean...
Wyeth questions the role of pharmacists to compound HRT
 In April, Wyeth Labs renewed its request (submitted last October) for increased FDA regulation of compounding pharmacies that prepare hormone...
Consumer alert: Conting Qianweisu Slimming Herbs Capsule
Just got back from vacation? Did you enjoy your trip to Hong Kong? What’s that you say, you found a...
Lack of a direct association between marijuana and lung cancer
A newly published review in the Archives of Internal Medicine confirms what has been known since 1988. Epidemiological and clinical...
Cannabis club banned at Fisherman’s Warf
This site reported previously about the growing resistance to medical cannabis clubs in San Francisco. Apparently, it is having an...
When is a side effect not a side effect?
Cultures around the world differ in what is considered a side effect (SE) that is important enough to report to...
Herbal medicines: Are they safe?
Americans tend to assume that if a drug is sold either by prescription in a pharmacy or off the shelf...
Court suppresses report on herbal treatment of tinnitus
In April 2006 Schwabe Pharma (Australia) launched a marketing campaign promoting Tebonin for “tinnitus and vertigo relief.” Tebonin is an...
Ketogenic diet for seizure control
Among patients with epilepsy who follow a ketogenic diet, complete seizure control after two years of treatment is achieved in...
Reversing neuropathic pain with diet and exercise
Exercise and diet can reduce neuropathic pain and help regenerate nerve fibers in overweight patients with impaired glucose tolerance (“Prediabetes”),...
Acupuncture: Does it matter where the needles go?
More than 1000 patients with chronic pain for at least 6 months due to osteoarthritis of the knee received up...