Tag: alternative medicine
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Placebo.
Give people a sugar pill, they have shown, and those patients – especially if they have one of the chronic, stress-related conditions that register the strongest placebo effects and if the treatment is delivered by someone in whom they have confidence – will improve. Tell someone a normal milkshake is a diet beverage, and his…
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Calligraphy. Cancer. Life. Death.
For hundreds of years, Chinese calligraphers have used a plant-based ink to create beautiful messages and art. Now, one group reports in ACS Omega that this ink could noninvasively and effectively treat cancer cells that spread, or metastasize, to lymph nodes. (1) Life is Silence. Death is Writing. The death of the body can be…
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Homeopathy works: Arguments in favor of the effectiveness of homeopathy and against scientific dogmatism.
~ Notes for easy reading ~ Go directly to Chapter IV. Arguments in favor of homeopathy… in order to find resources & bibliography related to the effectiveness of homeopathy Go to Chapter III to read about the philosophy behind the debate on homeopathy Go to Chapter V. Arguments against the effectiveness of conventional medicine to read about issues in proving…
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Does medicine actually help? [Cure rates and Philosophy analysis of mainstream and alternative medicine]
What would you think about a new pill that treats Hepatitis C ? (1) What would you think about a new pill that treats Hepatitis C and costs $1,000? What would you think about a new pill that SAYS it treats Hepatitis C and costs $1,000 ? What would you think of you gave $1,000…
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Medicine – Not working for everyone…
In a cancer vaccine setback, the drug giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced yesterday that an immunotherapy it had been testing in a phase III trial had flopped. The company is holding out hope, however, that some patients with a certain genetic signature will still be helped, and the trial is continuing. (1) So I suppose when…
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