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Complementary medicine ranges from authentic stress-relieving massage to well-meaning (but expensive) placebo, to outright spurious healing claims. Researchers decided to study its impact on patients ...

Introducing oneself as a professor of theology and science frequently elicits looks of consternation, a laugh or a rejoinder: “Aren’t they totally opposite ways of understanding reality?” It is more ...

Edzard Ernst is not afraid of a fight. Indeed as professor of complementary medicine at the University of Exeter, his determination to apply rigorous scientific analysis to everything from homeopathy ...

Many people swear by herbal remedies. They are passionately grateful to their acupuncturist, and the osteopath is spoken of in reverent tones. Many people swear by herbal remedies, writes Sarah ...

Advocates say new research is beginning to prove the case, but many medics, including the British Medical Association, believe there should be tougher regulation of the practice Professor Colquhoun, ...