Academic Study Casts Fresh Doubts Over Alternative Medicines
Posted on: Saturday, 27 August 2005, 09:00 CDT
THE power of homeopathic remedies came under fresh challenge yesterday with a team of scientists describing them as weak and producing nothing more than a placebo effect.
The study at Switzerland's University of Berne, published in The Lancet, throws more doubt on the effectiveness of alternative medicines.
Alternative medicine is a booming business. The Prince of Wales, a passionate campaigner for integrated health, has commissioned a report into its benefits, reportedly in an attempt to persuade the Government to offer more of the many therapies on the NHS.
But researchers ran comparisons between 110 randomised placebocontrolled trials of homeopathy with 110 conventional trials.
They covered a range of illnesses and treatments from respiratory infections to surgery to anaesthesiology.
The study concluded: "When the analysis was restricted to large trials of high quality, there was no convincing evidence that homeopathy was superior to placebo, whereas for conventional medicine an important effect remained
Source: Daily Post; Liverpool
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