The contribution of homeopathy to medicine and medical science

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Between early February and early March of this year (2016), Medscape, the newsletter of the American Medical Association (AMA), featured a series of articles entitled “The 50 most influential physicians in history”. (Check http://www.medscape.com/features/slideshow/influential-physicians-part-4  for the top 10). Sadly, perhaps the most important physician of all did not even appear on the list: Samuel Hahnemann […]

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American Medical Association article questions flu vaccination as a public health priority

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On December 29, 2015, a piece appeared in Medscape, the professional newsletter of the American Medical Association, entitled \”Flu Vaccine For All: A Critical Look at the Evidence\” by Eric A. Biondi, MD, MS and C. Andrew Aligne, MD, MPH. The article traces the earliest days of testing a vaccine for influenza in 1968 to

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Thinking of sharing a homeopathic case report at a conference or study group?

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Most homeopathic practitioners regularly attend homeopathy conferences and study groups. (The Homeopathy Association of Arizona has organized three study groups in the Phoenix area alone!) These usually include presentations of cases, or descriptions of how specific individuals have been helped by homeopathy. Case reports are typically thought to be simply narrative stories that chronicle a

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How much do you know about homeopathic “proving” research?

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In the regular monthly postings, we have touched on “How to cope with research” (August 12, 2015) which deals with the sometimes dizzying and often confusing world of research in homeopathy. “How does homeopathy work?” (September 23, 2015) focused on Dr. Iris Bell’s extremely useful answer to this question. This month, we turn our attention

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How does homeopathy work?

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In our last post, we talked about a coping strategy for how to deal with research in homeopathy. This time we will attempt to address an important question: how does homeopathy work? Because the physico-chemical research underlying this question continues to unfold, it is not possible to provide a definitive answer. However, Dr. Iris Bell

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