Alternative Medicine

News, commentary, criticism, analysis, and research from complementary and alternative medicine.

Alternative Medicine

Aromatherapy, the NHS maternity crisis, and the obsession with “natural” birth

Michael Marshall -
As part of an NHS push for "normal" births - without medical intervention - midwives around the country have been treating labour complications with aromatherapy.
Alternative Medicine

Autohemotherapy: blood pseudoscience with a Brazilian twist

Mauro Proença -
Autohemotherapy, involving withdrawing blood from a vein and injecting it into a muscle, has been gaining followers in Brazil.
Alternative Medicine

The Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine retraction scandal

Edzard Ernst -
Prior to its closure, the journal of Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine retracted hundreds of papers due to concerns over their validity.
Alternative Medicine

Patients can’t have true autonomy in health without access to good information

André Bacchi -
Patients have a right to choose how they want to be treated – but for that choice to mean anything, they must be given accurate information.
Acupuncture

From the archives: Quackupuncture – A question of medical ethics 

H.B. Gibson -
From the archive in 1992, HB Gibson looks at the rise and fall - and rise again - of medical acupuncture in Western society.
Cancer

The high price of anti-science paranoia and fake cancer-cure conspiracies

André Bacchi -
Patients who choose to use complementary medicine are troublingly likely to refuse conventional medicine – at great personal cost.
Alternative Medicine

Rights over regulation? The moral case against legalised snake oil

Aaron Rabinowitz -
Whenever the regulation of pseudoscience is raised, we can reliably expect to hear the same objections – none of which justifies deceiving vulnerable people
Wellness

Superficial empowerment: the hidden cost of TikTok’s skincare obsession

Olivia Olin -
TikTok trends may claim skincare routines are empowering self-care, but the message they send is that women – even young girls – should be judged on their looks
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