A recent study – published in the British Medical Journal – has shown that NHS GP surgeries employing GPs who are also trained in integrative and complementary medicine have lower rates of prescribing antibiotics compared to all other GP surgeries in England. Specifically, antibiotic prescription data was assessed from over 7000 NHS England GP surgeries […]

1 – Is there any scientific justification for the ‘150 rule’? 2 – I can’t find where the NHMRC report says that less than 150 participants makes a study unreliable 3 – All 176 trials seem to be included in the study, not just 5 trials 4 – Example of how NHMRC handled the evidence […]

In March 2015, the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) published an Information Paper on homeopathy, commonly referred to as ‘The Australian Report’.1 This document concluded that “…there are no health conditions for which there is reliable evidence that homeopathy is effective”.2 The report triggered headlines around the world suggesting NHMRC had found […]

  Home About HRI HRI Research Resources News Events Support HRI Contact Us Issue 34 Spring 2017 HRI featured in powerful new film World premiere of “Just One Drop” presents first details of legal challenge to the Australian NHMRC Report on homeopathy Based on extensive research, the powerful new film – “Just One Drop” – premiering at the […]

Some people take the position that public money should not be spent on homeopathy because “there is no proof that it works” or “tax-payers money shouldn’t be spent on placebos”. This is not an argument limited to the UK but is repeated across the world – especially in Europe – where homeopathy funding or rebates […]

The volume of clinical evidence available for veterinary homeopathy is much smaller than that for use of homeopathy in humans, although this continues to be an active area of research in countries such as Brazil where homeopathy is fully integrated alongside conventional medical techniques. Two global systematic reviews by Mathie & Clausen summarise the evidence […]

Individualised homeopathic treatment Depression A recent randomised placebo-controlled trial assessed the efficacy of individualised homeopathic treatment, and the efficacy of Fluoxetine (a.k.a Prozac), for moderate to severe depression in menopausal women.1 Both treatments were found to be safe and to have an effect significantly different from placebo. Homeopathy caused greater clinical improvement in symptoms of depression than fluoxetine and also improved the patients’ […]

To healthcare providers, patients and clinicians, what matters most is not necessarily how well a treatment performs under the artificially controlled conditions of a randomised controlled trial (RCT), but the results seen in clinical practice. Evidence from ‘uncontrolled observational studies‘ provides insight into changes in patients who have received treatment provided by homeopaths. These studies consistently […]

The following studies are examples of high quality studies which are positive and have not been refuted by any other directly comparable studies i.e. testing the same homeopathic treatment for the same condition: Diarrhoea: Individualised homeopathic treatment for diarrhoea in children. A meta-analysis of three placebo-controlled randomised trials by Jacobs et al. 2003 showed that homeopathic […]

Dr Gustavo Bracho, Cuba – homeopathy for Leptospirosis & other epidemics David Eyles, UK – homeopathy to reduce distress in lambs Prof Jürgen Pannek, Switz. – homeopathy for urinary infections Dr Stephan Baumgartner, Switz. – testing homeopathic medicines on plants Alastair Gray, Australia – modern ‘provings’ testing new homeopathic medicines