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Is Big Pharma Trying to Make CAM More Science-Based or Just Get a Piece of the Action?
There have been a number of mentions in the media lately of an initiative by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), one of the biggest of Big Pharma companies, setting up a division in China to study Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Here’s one report … Continue reading
The Danger of Choosing Alternative Therapies over Conventional Care
One of the most common responses to criticisms of alternative medicine is that, whether it is effective or not, at least it can’t do any harm. There is ample evidence, unfortunately, that this is not true. Any therapy with a … Continue reading
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The Three Most Dangerous Words in Medicine
This slide presentation, and narrated video version, look briefly at the danger of relying on individual clinical experience rather than formal scientific research in making medical decisions. Slide Presentation Clinical Trials or Clinical Experience?
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Can Complementary and Alternative Medicine be Evidence-Based?
This slide presentation, and the narrated video version, are part of a talk given at the annual convention of the American Veterinary Medical Association. The subject was whether or not one can apply the approach of evidence-based medicine to complementary and … Continue reading
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Dog Cancer Expert Steven Eisen: Bad Advice from an Unreliable Source (restored)
The direct quotations from Dr. Eisen’s web sites were temporarily removed pending the outcome of a DMCA copyright complaint. Since no legal action was taken during the 14-day waiting period mandated under the DMCA, the original quotations have been restored. … Continue reading
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Medical Miracles: Should We Believe?
Any time there is discussion of alternative medicine, of treatments that haven’t passed the test of rigorous scientific investigation (or even been tested at all), there are miracle stories. Testimonials, anecdotes, whatever you call them, they are tales of amazing … Continue reading
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From SBM: Alternative Medicine Claims to “Individualize” Therapy, but Does It?
Posted today on the Science-Based Medicine Blog Testing the “Individualization” of CAM Treatments One of the common claims of alternative medicine practitioners is that they individualize their treatment while conventional medicine treats all patients the same. This is nonsense … Continue reading
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SuperVets: Entertainment, Education, or Propaganda?
It is a well-known, indisputable, and nearly universally ignored fact that anecdotes in medicine are unreliable when trying to decide which therapies work and which don’t. The experiences of individual patients don’t even reliably tell us what worked or didn’t … Continue reading
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N-Acetylcarnosine Eyedrops for Cataracts in Dogs and Cats (Can-C, Bright Eyes NAC, etc)
A client recently asked for my opinion about the value of some over-the-counter eye drops purported to treat cataracts in dogs and cats. Not having read much about this product, I did a little research. What Is It? There are … Continue reading
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Coffee Enemas for Pets: A Very Dangerous Idea!
The therapies I write about range widely from the likely beneficial, to the plausible but mostly untested and over-marketed, to the implausible and even completely ridiculous. The subject of this post is in the last category, and it is a … Continue reading
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