US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth’s creation of an Office of Religious Affairs within his ‘Ministry of War’ marks a decisive fusion of fitness, faith, and force (FFF). Hegseth - the man with a ...

That a paper entitled “Homeopathy in Geriatric Healthcare: A Critical Review of Applications, Evidence, Safety and Patient-Centred Care” caught my eye is not surprising. The paper itself, however, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Randomized clinical trials (RCTs) provide the optimal design for evaluating the effectiveness of Chinese herbal medicine (CHM). However, how trialists have designed, conducted, and analyzed RCTs of ...