With thanks to Mercola.com and Time Magazine 15.2.2007
Researchers can gather all the hard-nosed evidence they want about the effectiveness of a particular drug or treatment. But there’s one figure doctors don’t much talk about despite its importance. It’s called number needed to treat, or NNT, a new measure developed in the past 20 years that’s one of the best-kept statistical secrets in medicine.
Sue :: May.08.2008 :: pharmaceuticals, research :: No Comments »
With thanks to the Thaindian News 8.4.08
A three-member Spanish cancer support team visited the Prasanta Banerji Homeopath Research Foundation (PBHRF) here to study and learn the technical know-how of alternative homeopathic medicine, Banerji protocol, for treating cancer.
Sue :: Apr.19.2008 :: pathology, research :: No Comments »
With thanks to The Intention Experiment and Lynne McTaggart
Sue :: Mar.06.2008 :: Book Reviews, research :: No Comments »
With thanks to the New York Times 1894:
Morphine Experiments at the New York Homeopathic Hospital 1894:
Since January 23 1894 Howard S Neilson, nephew of William Tod Helmuth… and Oscar N Meyer, who are students at the New York Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital, have experimented there with permanganate of potash as an antidote to morphine poisoning. Their subjects have been street curs.
Sue :: Feb.24.2008 :: research :: No Comments »
With thanks to the New York Times 8.5.1904
In a rather ambitious undertaking to attempt the revision of the entire standard of drug action, involving the re-proving by the finest scientific tests of almost the whole pharmacopeia, but this is what the New York Homeopathic College has planned, and, with the assistance of similar institutions throughout the United States and prominent homeopaths of this city, it believes it will successfully accomplish.
Sue :: Feb.14.2008 :: research :: No Comments »
Vitamin C can inhibit the virus in test tubes, although it has not shown the same effect in the human body. It can help boost the immune system, however. Very high doses of vitamin C are sometimes used as supportive therapy. The dose must be determined and monitored by your doctor. Continue Reading »
Sue :: Jan.11.2008 :: diet, pathology, research :: No Comments »
The Journal of Natural Products, published by the American Chemical Society, the world’s largest scientific society, concluded that tart cherries may relieve pain better than aspirin and many other anti-inflammatory drugs. It turns out that consumption of about 20 cherries reduces inflammation in a similar manner as aspirin or Cox-2 inhibiting drugs without the lethal side effects of gastric bleeding or vitamin depletion associated with these drugs. The molecules in cherries, called anthocyanins, work to reduce inflammation at ten times less dosage than aspirin. Continue Reading »
Sue :: Jan.11.2008 :: diet, pathology, research :: No Comments »
With thanks to WDDTY (What the Doctors Don’t Tell You) and the Guardian 19.12.07:
Sue :: Dec.20.2007 :: research :: No Comments »
By Roger Harrabin of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme 6.2.1999
A homeopathic remedy that uses tiny amounts of arsenic could cure stomach cramps, according to European research. Homeopaths who say an infinitesimal quantity of arsenic shaken in several dilutions of water cures diarrhoea may be right, say Dutch scientists.
Sue :: Nov.24.2007 :: research :: No Comments »
