Complementary and alternative medicines


Public deserves better information on complementary medicines

Anything less than full disclosure about lack of testing compromises the capacity of health consumers to appropriately purchase and use complementary medicines, writes Carol Bennett, chief executive officer, Consumers Health Forum of Australia.

HuffPo‘s unhealthy quackery

Pay peanuts… It’s one thing for The Huffington Post’s army of unpaid bloggers to pontificate on politics, but when it comes to science and medicine, it’s just irresponsible to publish the crackpot theories of unqualified, self-appointed “experts” says doctor Rahul K. Parikh.

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Complementary medicine: time to put public interests first

In Canberra tomorrow, I will be advising Senator Jan McLucas, parliamentary secretary to Health Minister Nicola Roxon, that she has a unique opportunity to correct an imbalance in Australia’s regulation of complementary medicines, writes Dr Ken Harvey.