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Homeopathic medicinal products for preventing and treating acute respiratory tract infections in children.
CONCLUSIONS: Pooling of two prevention and two treatment studies did not show any benefit of homeopathic medicinal products compared to placebo on ARTI recurrence or cure rates in children. We found no evidence to support the efficacy of homeopathic medicinal products for ARTIs in children. Adverse events were poorly reported, so conclusions about safety could not be drawn. PMID: 30196554 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - September 9, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Hawke K, van Driel ML, Buffington BJ, McGuire TM, King D Tags: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Source Type: research

Homeopaths launch campaign to "save homeopathy on the NHS"
The  British Homeopathic Association (BHA) has called for a judicial review of what it calls the “fundamentally flawed” process that will prevent homeopathy products being prescribed on the NHS.
Source: The Pharmaceutical Journal - January 23, 2018 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research

Performing 'pragmatic holism': Professionalisation and the holistic discourse of non-medically qualified acupuncturists and homeopaths in the United Kingdom
This article explores the strategies by which two groups of complementary and alternative medicine practitioners, namely, non-medically qualified acupuncturists and homeopaths in the United Kingdom, pragmatically accommodate holistic notions as a professional resource, a process of negotiation between maintaining their holistic premise, on the one hand, and the drive to professionalise and enhance their societal status, on the other. Based on in-depth interviews with non-medically qualified acupuncture and homeopathy practitioners and school principals, textual analysis of practitioners’ web sites and observation of ...
Source: Health: - December 18, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Givati, A. Tags: Articles Source Type: research