{"id":1650,"date":"2012-04-12T12:04:19","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T12:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s277878445.websitehome.co.uk\/homeoinst.org\/?p=1650"},"modified":"2022-03-08T15:37:49","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T15:37:49","slug":"urgent-hri-fundraising-appeal-vital-ibs-trial-needs-your-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hri-research.org\/nl\/2012\/04\/urgent-hri-fundraising-appeal-vital-ibs-trial-needs-your-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Urgent HRI fundraising appeal – Vital IBS trial needs your help!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Researchers at Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, partially funded by HRI, have completed the first phase of a\u00a0pilot study into the homeopathic treatment of Irritable Bowel<\/b>\u00a0Syndrome<\/b>\u00a0(IBS).<\/p>\n

Preliminary analysis\u00a0shows\u00a0extremely\u00a0encouraging results\u00a0<\/b>for those receiving homeopathy in addition to usual care, demonstrating a clinically and potentially statistically significant change in the IBS Symptom Severity Score (the global measure of IBS symptoms).\u00a0However, at the end of phase 1, statistical analysis shows that more patients will need to be recruited to the study to ensure that firm conclusions can be drawn from the results, one way or the other.<\/p>\n

The project needs a final \u00a315,000<\/b>\u00a0to carry out this essential second phase. Without it, the positive clinical results seen so far will simply be dismissed because the number of participants was too small.<\/p>\n

At a time when homeopathy continues to be criticised for a lack of high quality evidence,\u00a0this is exactly the kind of homeopathy research that is sorely needed \u2013 an expert team of professional homeopaths, gastroenterologists and researchers collaborating to carry out rigorous scientific research within the NHS.<\/p>\n

Peter Whorwell, Professor of Medicine and Gastroenterology at the University of Manchester,<\/b>\u00a0who was involved in designing this study explains it’s importance:
\n“IBS remains an extremely challenging condition to treat and because current medications are not always effective, many patients turn to alternative approaches.\u00a0 Consequently we need to know if any of these approaches are of value by putting any prejudices on one side, and encouraging well conducted trials of such treatment options<\/i>.”<\/p>\n

Make a donation:<\/b><\/a>\u00a0If you would like to contribute to the fund for the\u00a0\u2018IBS Homeopathy Pilot: Phase 2\u2019\u00a0<\/b>please click\u00a0<\/b>here<\/b><\/a>\u00a0to make a safe online donation.
\nAny amount you can manage would be gratefully received.<\/p>\n

With thanks,<\/p>\n

Dr Alexander Tournier & Ms Rachel Roberts
\nHRI Management Team<\/p>\n

For more details, see\u00a0BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine<\/b><\/a>\u00a0where the protocol has just been published.<\/p>\n

If you prefer to donate by a different payment method, or would like to discuss this appeal further, please contact Rachel Roberts on\u00a0rachelroberts@homeoinst.org<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Researchers at Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, partially funded by HRI, have completed the first phase of a\u00a0pilot study into the homeopathic treatment of Irritable Bowel\u00a0Syndrome\u00a0(IBS). Preliminary analysis\u00a0shows\u00a0extremely\u00a0encouraging results\u00a0for those receiving homeopathy in addition to usual care, demonstrating a clinically and potentially statistically significant change in the IBS Symptom Severity Score (the global measure of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[154,153,68,156],"class_list":["post-1650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-appeal","tag-fundraising","tag-ibs","tag-trial"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hri-research.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hri-research.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hri-research.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hri-research.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hri-research.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hri-research.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hri-research.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hri-research.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hri-research.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}