"While Edzard Ernst is swimming against a massive volume of alternative health advocates who view him as their “nemesis reserving his most poisonous venom for their professions,” his data-driven, ...

Yesterday, I received a comment that ended stating: "... this site, and quite possibly Edzard, has well and truly lost the plot." The author has made many comments before that led me to ignore him; so ...

Chronic non-specific low back pain (CNSLBP) is a major cause of disability worldwide. Conventional pharmacological treatments offer limited benefits and carry potential risks, prompting interest in ...

This study was conducted to determine the effect of Reiki performed on children with leukemia between the ages of 5-7 years on pain, vital signs, oxygen saturation, and quality of life. It was a ...

Donald Trump’s rhetoric is systematically racialized and frequently functions as a "dog whistle" to mobilize his racist followers. Here are but a few examples: July 1989 (On the Central Park Five): "I ...

I came across an interesting paper entitled "The Ethics of Tawas and Other Rituals in Medical Practices". Here is its abstract: Rituals in medical practice have either been seen as an anthropological ...

I remember it well: when I was a kid, I went every day in the evening to a nearby farm to fetch a litre of luke warm raw milk. I was lucky; I never caught tuberculosis or any other infection that is ...