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Unregulated Dietary Supplements Still Killing People
The New York Times recently reported on the growing evidence that unregulated dietary supplements are a significant cause of injury and death. According to research by a group of liver specialists, supplements now “account for nearly 20 percent of drug-related liver … Continue reading
Posted in Herbs and Supplements
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AVMA Leadership Fears Slippery Slope if Homeopathy is Publically Identified as Ineffective
The leadership of the American Veterinary Medical Asociation (AVMA) has recommended the House of Delegates (HoD) reject a resolution discouraging the use of ineffective therapies and identifying homeopathy as ineffective. While not disputing that there is no clinical evidence to … Continue reading
Posted in Homeopathy, Law, Regulation, and Politics
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Evidence Update-Importance of Vitamin D Supplementation Revealed
Over the years, I have been skeptical of the safety and value of vitamin suppkements. However, a new study in the Medical Journal of Australia has finally set me straight. I’m off to stock up on Vitamin D tablets! Hopkinson … Continue reading
Posted in Herbs and Supplements, Humor
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American Veterinary Medical Association Admits Homeopathy is Useless, But Doesn’t Care
About a year ago the Connecticut Veterinary Medical Association introduced a resolution to the American Veterinary Medical Association House of Delegates recommending the AVMA acknowledge that homeopathy is an ineffective therapy and discourage its use. This resolution was supported by … Continue reading
Posted in Homeopathy
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CAM Vets Attacking Conventional Veterinary Medicine
The nature of science is fundamentally critical. Science works best when it shows us what is not true. This is largely a function of the fact that most of the biases and cognitive quirks that lead us astray when trying … Continue reading
Posted in General
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European Food Safety Authority Rejects Prostora, a Probiotic Product for Dogs
I have written frequently about probiotics,(1,2) and the health effects of microorganisms seems a promising area of research. The current evidence for meaningful beneficial effects, however, is quite limited. There is reasonable evidence for some benefit in treating antibiotic-associated diarrhea … Continue reading
Posted in Herbs and Supplements
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Evidence Update-Review of Risks and Benefits of Raw Meat Diets for Dogs and Cats
A nice new review of the evidence concerning raw meat-based diets appears in the most recent issue of the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association. Freeman LM, Chandler ML, Hamper BA, Weeth LP. Current knowledge about the risks and … Continue reading
Posted in Nutrition
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When Hope becomes Delusion and Compassion becomes Deception: An Alternative Medicine Approach to Testing New Therapies
One of the most attractive features of alternative therapies is that they offer hope. CAM treatments, by definition, are almost never validated by the usual scientific research evidence used to test mainstream medical therapies. If they were, they would no … Continue reading
Posted in General
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“One and Done” Approach to Rabies Vaccination is Misguided and Dangerous
Recently, I wrote about claims made by a veterinary homeopath that booster vaccination was unnecessary because single, initial vaccination provides lifelong immunity for our pets. There is ample evidence that this is frequently untrue, but today I ran across an … Continue reading
Posted in Vaccines
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Evidence Update: Resveratrol
In the first year of this blog, I wrote about a supplement called resveratrol, calling it “a promising but unproven compound.” Last year, I reported on a scandal in which a major researcher of resveratrol retracted over 100 research articles … Continue reading
Posted in Herbs and Supplements
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