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• Doctors and patients must work together

  Mar 10 | Telegraph/ Michael Dixon

  NHS funding is limited -doctors and patients must work together to find local solutions to problems.

• Acupuncture and infertility

  Mar 10 | BBC

  The British Fertility Society says there is no case for acupuncture in conjunction with IVF treatment.  FIH says the evidence is unclear - a Cochrane collaboration review in 2008 found benefit if acupuncture was used on the day of IVF treatment.

• Harvard medical students award an 'F' to university for pharmaceutical company ties

  Mar 09 | New York Times/ Barton publishing blog

  Students at Harvard Medical School are protesting at the undue influence of  the pharmaceutical industry in their classrooms. 

   

• Professor Ernst damaged by FIH?

  Mar 06 | Times/Guardian

  Is an old row with FIH responsible for the possible closure of the complementary therapy unit at Peninsula Medical School?

• What's realistic for a client with multiple problems?

  Feb 26 | Margaret Hensman

  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.  

• This homeopathy row has nothing to do with placebos

  Feb 25 | Guardian

   Does the huge row about homeopathy on the NHS have more to do with identity politics than science?

• Is alternative medicine safe?

  Feb 24 | You and yours - Radio 4

  A fifty minute consumer programme talks around the issues of 'alternative' medicine. 

• Parliamentary report on homeopathy out - and the DH's response

  Feb 22 | Various

  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.

• Acupuncture 'better than drugs for period pain'

  Feb 19 | Pulse

  Review of many randomised controlled trials finds acupucture is better than drugs for period pain
  

• Evidence check on homeopathy to be published next Monday

  Feb 17 | Committee office, House of Commons

  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.