Clinical research derives its ethical authority foremost from the purpose of generating reliable knowledge to improve human ...

This study evaluated the effectiveness of moving dry cupping combined with conventional physiotherapy versus sham cupping with conventional physiotherapy in patients with non-specific chronic low back ...

When discussing so-called alternative medicine (SCAM), logical fallacies are seldom far away. Recognising how they are used might sharpen our own reasoning and help us exposing misleading claims. Here ...

An anaesthetist from Veldhoven, Jens Fischer de Brabander, has been fined by the Dutch Health and Youth Care Inspectorate (IGJ) for administering umbilical-cord blood without the required licence. The ...

Yes, Donald Trump is repulsive! This is less of an opinion than a demonstrable fact, and there are many ways of justifying this statement. One of them is to list the range of profanities and vulgar ...

I don't care much about gas prices in the US, and they don't either seem eminently relevant to the subjects we discuss on this blog. But Americans do care about them a lot - in fact, it seems to me th ...

We unfortunately live at a time when truths and untruths are getting more and more difficult to tell apart. One reason for this developement is the fact that a plethora of variations of untruths are ...

Acupuncture is widely used as an adjunctive therapy for chronic pain and headache disorders and is generally considered a safe procedure when performed by trained practitioners. However, pneumothorax ...

Tomatoes are the major dietary source of lycopene, a carotenoid that crosses the blood-brain barrier and exerts antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects. However, the impact of tomato consumption on ...

Prior qualitative studies have described subjective experiences during Reiki, yet their quantitative relationship to symptom change has not been examined. This study evaluated whether specific ...