July 22, 2002
Figures from the US Department of Health & Human Services show that doctors are 9000 times more hazardous to your health than gun owners. Statistics back that up. In the UK, as many people die every month from prescription drugs as were blown up in the World Trade Center in 2001.
July 18, 2002
The recent US research study linking the long-term use of HRT with a 25% increase in the risk of getting breast cancer and an increased risk of cardiovascular disease by 22%, comes as no surprise to The Natural Health Sector.
Naturopaths have been treating menopausal symptoms successfully using nutritional therapy along with supplements and herbal remedies. Menopause is not a disease and need not be treated as such.
July 3, 2002
A report in the Annals of Allergy, Asthma and immunology 2002 has raised the possibility that Echinacea can cause allergic reactions. Echinacea is a member of the daisy family and those with allergies to this family may react to Echinacea, but there’s nothing new or sensational about this. So why has this report been portrayed in such a sensationalist manner? (‘Alternative Medicines could be bad for you’, Ireland on Sunday, 30.June) Closer inspection of its content shows that it contains several serious flaws that the media have failed to point out, there is no mention – what species of Echinacea, what form, how standardised, was the trial blinded, placebo controlled, did they consider the skin-prick format itself as a factor in reactions, etc., etc.?
All in all, this is another representation of very weak ‘science’ getting sensationalist reporting.