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Harvard medical students award an 'F' to university for pharmaceutical company ties
Students at Harvard Medical School are protesting at the undue influence of the pharmaceutical industry in their classrooms.
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Professor Ernst damaged by FIH?
Is an old row with FIH responsible for the possible closure of the complementary therapy unit at Peninsula Medical School?
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What's realistic for a client with multiple problems?
A single parent with a Body Mass Index of 48 (i.e. seriously overweight) who also has advanced arthritis and is caring for a severely autistic child who never sleeps for more than two hours at a time will find it almost impossible to look after their own health and wellbeing.
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This homeopathy row has nothing to do with placebos
Does the huge row about homeopathy on the NHS have more to do with identity politics than science?
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Is alternative medicine safe?
A fifty minute consumer programme talks around the issues of 'alternative' medicine.
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Parliamentary report on homeopathy out - and the DH's response
Newspaper reporting on the Science and Technology committee's report on the NHS which says that homeopathy should not be available on the NHS. The Department of Health's first response.
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Acupuncture 'better than drugs for period pain'
Review of many randomised controlled trials finds acupucture is better than drugs for period pain
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Michael Pittilo's letter to the Times on herbal regulation
FIH is extremely sorry to hear of the death of our friend and colleague Professor Michael Pittilo. In a letter to the Times last week he reiterated the case for herbal statutory regulation, one of his long-standing interests.
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A guilty plea in the Chinese TCM poisoning case - and further calls for herbal practitioner regulation
Chinese medicine provider pleas guilty to poisoning a customer. The EHPA argue that this shows how vital regulation has become.
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Evidence check on homeopathy to be published next Monday
The parliamentary Science and Technology select committee hearings on the evidence for homeopathy have been much covered in the press, with fierce controversy about the data.