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 ...

A Critical Review of Applications, Evidence, Safety and Patient-Centred Care" caught my eye is not surprising. The paper itself, however, offers plenty of surprises. Here is its abstract: Population ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There is a species of high-profile science experts who can explain a confidence interval, denounce a poorly controlled trial and ctitque “peer review” with the weary authority of someone who has ...

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 ...