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- Regulate alternative medicine – HPC
- Medicinal challenge
- 5th Nat’l Traditional and Alternative Health Care Convention set …
- Digging up real medicine
- Iridology: Insight to your health or bogus medicine?
- Alternative Medicine
Regulate alternative medicine – HPC
The Press Association
The professions are not currently subject to statutory regulation but the HPC formally recommended a system was introduced to make it easier to ensure people were “meeting standards”. HPC chief executive Marc Seale said: “The HPC has made a recommendation to the Secretary of State for Health advocating the regulation of acupuncturists, medical herbalists and traditional Chinese medicine practitioners. “The HPC was set up in order to protect the public and we strongly believe that statutory regulation can more effectively assure that practitioners are meeting standards and are fit to practise. “A Department of Health steering group report in June said regulation was “in the public interest”.
Medicinal challenge
The Nation Newspaper, Barbados
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MORE AND MORE Barbadians are turning to alternative medicine for better health, but they have a big challenge – a lack of insurance coverage that would help them recoup some of the costs. Some alternative medicine clients have experienced the disappointment of having their “medical claims” rejected by insurance companies. Alternative medicine is not fully recognised by the Ministry of Health and there is no organisation governing the practices of its practitioners, similar to how conventional medical practitioners are administered. A senior official at the Ministry of Health confirmed that reflexology, chiropody and acupuncture were recognised by the ministry, but a variety of other services offered under the wide cover of “alternative medicine” were not. “It is tricky because the people practising these kinds of therapy are not really doctors, although their treatments might work.
5th Nat’l Traditional and Alternative Health Care Convention set …
Philippine Information Agency, Philippines
” The convention will highlight, among others, the exhibit of alternative and traditional health care products and will feature traditional and alternative methods of health care. Juan Flavier who sponsored the bill which became the Republic Act 8423 (R. 8423) otherwise known as the Traditional and Alternative Medicine Act (TAMA) of 1997, Health Secretary Francisco Duque,III, Usec Jade F. Cory Quirino and Dr.
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Digging up real medicine
Gauntlet, Canada
Others, defending these people– many of them honestly believing in the good of the remedy– promote these practices in spite of any evidence that they work. Scientific medicines are tested repeatedly and only considered medicine once the method is proven to work substantially better than a placebo or random chance. Alternative medicine (traditional, spiritual, et cetera), includes all methods that fail the controlled double-blind tests that scientific medicine is subjected to or simply don’t produce consistent, repeatable results. Lack of concrete evidence denies scientific status and nothing more. Because of this reasonable and understandable method of inquiry, medicine has distinguished the functional from the false methods over time. Demanding only that it can be shown to work, there are not multiple forms of medicine. If a method from the Far East is shown to do repeatedly what it claims to do, then it is not alternative– it is medicine.
Iridology: Insight to your health or bogus medicine?
WPEC, FL
Lorna Day practices the alternative medicine of Iridology. She and other iridologists claim the markings around one’s iris can reveal a patient’s overall health. “Every specific organ in your body shows up in your eye,” says Day. Iridologists use special charts which divide the iris into zones corresponding to parts of the human body. “There is an optic nerve that runs into the back of your eye and every part of your body is connected to that optic nerve.
Alternative Medicine
ScienceBlogs
Today, though, we will specifically examine the nature of medical ethics as they apply to so-called alternative medicine. First, and perhaps most important, I.