Synopses
Sometimes you just need to cut to the chase! This is the place for quick and easy summaries of interesting articles published in scientific journals.
NHS Homeopathy in the Spotlight
As media stories circulate about a proposal suggesting that doctors should be banned from prescribing homeopathic medicines on the National Health Service (NHS), find out the facts about NHS spending on homeopathy and how scientific evidence is used in NHS decision-making here.
Understanding the evidence base for homeopathy
Rachel Roberts
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Examining reasons for divergence in interpretation of the evidence base for homeopathy
Synopsis by Alastair Gray of ‘Plausibility and evidence: the case of homeopathy’.
Rutten L, Mathie RT, Fisher P, Goossens M, van Wassenhoven M.
Med Health Care Philos 2013, 16(3): 525-32
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A Trial of Homeopathy for Moderate to Severe Depression Open Access
Synopsis by Suse Moebius of ‘Homeopathic Individualized Q-Potencies versus Fluoxetine for Moderate to Severe Depression: Double-blind, Randomized Non-inferiority trial’.
Adler UC, Paiva AT, Cesar AT, Adler MS, Molina A, Padula AE, Calil HM
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2011:520182
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