At the end of her talk before the National Press Club on April 6, 2010, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was popped a question on "acupuncture, meditation and other alternative healing methods." Sebelius responds positively, if...
For the last decade the American Hospital Association has published outcomes of a series of surveys that have indicated that the percent of hospitals with some complementary and alternative medicine has quintupled to 37%. But a closer look at the...
If you've got friends who sneer about alternative medicine, and who tell you there's no proof it works, just give them this two-word answer: 'osteoarthritis' and 'acupuncture'. You can also stick your tongue out afterwards, but that bit is entirely...
Doctors who point the finger at alternative medicine comfort themselves with the thought that, whatever its faults, conventional medicine is at least a science. Drugs and procedures are weighed and analysed in strictly-controlled trials that are...
The Health Freedom Movement march is over (thank so many of you for attending), but the fight has just begun.
There’s a range of options from alternative medicine you can try if you have been diagnosed with early-stage heart disease. If you are suffering from angina pectoris (pain in the chest, legs or arms caused by narrowing of the arteries), then...
HERBAL MEDICINE: Not so much like conventional drugs, after all
Readers were probably shocked to read in last week's bulletin about the raft of EU legislation that could kill off alternative and nutritional medicine in Europe. Could it be that alternative medicine is dangerous, that it presents a threat to life...
Some two thirds of family health services authorities, general practice fund holders and district health authorities say there is a role for complementary medicine within the NHS, according to a s ...
Two health centres are being set up in the US to study alternative health. The centres, in Minneapolis and Seattle, will scientifically assess the benefits of the treatments in the same way that ...
John Weeks
What Doctors Don't Tell You