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Veterinary Clinical Decision-Making and Cognitive Bias
As part of the rationale for the application of EBVM, it seems necessary to illustrate the deficiencies in other approaches to evaluating therapies and making clinical decisions. As infectious disease specialist Mark Crislip puts it. Often getting the right diagnosis … Continue reading
Posted in Science-Based Veterinary Medicine
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An Oral History of Evidence-Based Medicine
The Journal of the American Medical Association and British Medical Journal have produced a video of a discussion with some of the founding figures of the Evidence-Based Medicine movement. This offers some great insights into the improtant and fundamental shift in … Continue reading
Teaching Evidence-Based Medicine and Teaching Alternative Medicine: What Future are we Preparing Veterinary Students to Create?
A key focus of this blog is to promote a science-based perspective for veterinary medicine. I believe that relying more on science and less on habit, tradition, intuition, and personal experience will lead to better care for our patients. While … Continue reading
Posted in General
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AVMA Homeopathy Resolution Defeated-Politics Trumps Science Yet Again
In a shock to no one, the resolution before the American Veterinary Medical Association House of Delegates acknowledging homeopathy is ineffective was defeated by a wide margin. Sources say the vote was 90% against the resolution despite the report of … Continue reading
Posted in Homeopathy, Law, Regulation, and Politics
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Do Dogs Line Themselves Up With the Earth’s Magnetic Field to Poop?
Here’s a paper that’s been getting a lot of press lately and which illustrates some common problems with scientific studies which turn up often in the domain of alternative medicine, although that is not the subject of this study. Hart … Continue reading
Posted in General
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The Ethical Case Against Homeopathy
Veterinary homeopaths like to present their efforts as beneficient and morally sound. They claim they are providing a needed service and that denying homeopathy to patients would be denying every chance at health and denying their owners freedom to choose … Continue reading
Posted in Homeopathy
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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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