Today’s headlines:
UK’s largest alternative medicine hospital to stop offering NHS-funded homeopathy
http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Care-News/uks-largest-alternative-medicine-hospital-to-stop-offering-nhs-funded-homeopathy?dorewrite=false
What surprises me is the singling out of natural medicines for culling when organisations focused on such culling haven’t had the same intent for mainstream medicines such as anti-depressants, some of which have been found to be no better than placebo in achieving their desired outcomes.
One conclusion of such paper was this:
“A key issue disregarded by critics is the patient’s point of view, as if the patient is benefiting from antidepressant treatment does it matter whether this is being achieved via drug or placebo effects?”
From:
The drugs don’t work? Antidepressants and the current and future pharmacological management of depression
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3736946/
Why not apply that same conclusion to homeopathy?
UK’s largest alternative medicine hospital to stop offering NHS-funded homeopathy
http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Care-News/uks-largest-alternative-medicine-hospital-to-stop-offering-nhs-funded-homeopathy?dorewrite=false
What surprises me is the singling out of natural medicines for culling when organisations focused on such culling haven’t had the same intent for mainstream medicines such as anti-depressants, some of which have been found to be no better than placebo in achieving their desired outcomes.
One conclusion of such paper was this:
“A key issue disregarded by critics is the patient’s point of view, as if the patient is benefiting from antidepressant treatment does it matter whether this is being achieved via drug or placebo effects?”
From:
The drugs don’t work? Antidepressants and the current and future pharmacological management of depression
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3736946/
Why not apply that same conclusion to homeopathy?
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