I often have discussions with fans of this or that so-called alternative medicine (SCAM). After several decades of such disputes, you would think that I know how to best deal with them. Well, you ...

Americans have long complained about the high and rising cost of food. To make matters (far) worse, they now also have to worry about their health. Recent foodborne outbreaks, e.g. a Cyclospora ...

I just came across this paper entitled “Development of national consensus-based recommendations for history taking, examination and clinical management of infants in chiropractic practice”, and found ...

I recently stumbled across a long-forgotten interview* that I gave precisely 20 years ago. It is lengthy and fairly boring - except for its ending. The last question Phin Foster asked me was this: In ...

John Hunter was once one of the most pre-eminent surgeons in Europe. Though he died early in Hahnemann’s life, Hunter was still the dominant intellectual figure in scientific surgery; his ideas shaped ...

A new and surprising partnership between Exeter University and Saudi Arabia has been announced. It was created to deliver an MA in “Applied Security and Strategy” to senior Saudi military officers and ...

Heidi Overton, President Trump’s nominee to lead the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has called for a political reorientation of US medical research. Specifically, she argued that agencies like ...

Germany - the birthland of homeopathy - has finally decided to stop reimbursing homeopathic and anthroposophic medicine through statutory health insurance. The decision marks an important attempt to ...

Dolly Rebecca Parton (1946–2026) was an American singer‑songwriter, actress, businesswoman and philanthropist, widely known as the “Queen of Country.” Born into a poor farming family in Tennessee, she ...