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Saunas and longevity: Another example of putting the preclinical cart before the horse
Dr. Sara Gottfried, MD, wants you to know she is a doctor. She also wants you to know that you can "reset" your hormones and genes with food and saunas. In the case of the saunas, she's put the preclinical cart before the clinical horse and extrapolated animal and early molecular epidemiological data off of a cliff. (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - March 17, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Biology Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Popular culture Skepticism/critical thinking epigenetics FOXO3 hormones longevity quackery quantum theory Sara Gottfried sauna Source Type: blogs

The antivaccine conspiracy theory narrative: You want it darker?
Every story must have a victim, a hero, and a villain, and the central antivaccine conspiracy myth is no different. (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - March 16, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine Politics Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking Andrew Wakefield conspiracy theories conspiracy theory Kent Heckenlively Leonard Cohen You Want It Darker Source Type: blogs

In the era of Donald Trump, will the states save us from antivaxers?
There might be an antivaxer in the White House right now, but it's at the state level where vaccine policy and school vaccine mandates are decided. (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - March 14, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine Politics Pseudoscience Skepticism/critical thinking bills Jeffery Jaxen laws NVIC Sayer Ji vaccines Source Type: blogs

What ’s the evidence for evidence-based medicine?
Patients come in all the time asking about things they read about on the internet, or heard about from a friend. It may be an unexpected explanation for their mysterious symptoms, or a new test, or an amazing treatment they want to try. Heck, when I see things that I’m curious about, I research them, and sometimes I try them, too. When I was hugely pregnant and due and couldn’t stand even one more day as an awkward whale, I tried red raspberry leaf tea. When breastfeeding proved both difficult and painful, I tried …oh. just about everything, actually. Fenugreek tea, lanolin ointment, chamomile poultices. When I w...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - March 13, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Monique Tello, MD, MPH Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Health care Managing your health care Tests and procedures Source Type: blogs

Please don ’t mix herbal supplements with cancer treatments
One of the questions that I face (and which I am certain many of us do) concerns the use of alternative therapies. Iron chelation therapy, high-dose vitamin C infusions, Chinese herbs — interest in these therapies and others like them are driven by word-of-mouth (“a friend of a friend”), claims on websites and patients curiosity. Cancer is serious, and let’s face it — modern medicine has not (yet) found the cure. What usually follows is a Western medicine-driven explanation — that as physicians, we seek to uphold the Hippocratic Oath: to “first, do no harm” and to understand the diseases we treat and the me...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 6, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/don-s-dizon" rel="tag" > Don S. Dizon, MD < /a > Tags: Meds Cancer Medications Source Type: blogs