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Articles on Evidence based medicine
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We work at the Australasian Cochrane Centre and we dread being asked what we do for a living. This isn’t because we don’t like what we do, in fact we love it. It’s because when we explain that our job…
Belief is a powerful medicine but the term “placebo” has negative connotations. In modern evidence-based medicine, treatments considered worthless are described as no better than placebos. But this description…
We’re fortunate to live in a society where robust evidence forms the basis of the information health-care professionals provide to patients – and home birth should be no exception. But the evidence about…
When it comes to diet-related health claims, even the “good” newspapers are usually wrong, making recommendations about which foods people should eat (and avoid) that aren’t based on sufficient evidence…
Chiropractic has copped some criticism this week, with a group of prominent Australian doctors and scientists urging Central Queensland University to reverse its decision to offer a chiropractic degree…
It’s difficult enough to counter the massive amount of misleading information provided to consumers through the media and online. But the task becomes much harder when tertiary institutes give an undeserved…
Homeopathy’s got a bit of a run in the media in recent months and the stories are by no means positive. It all started in April when the medical press highlighted the National Health and Research Council’s…
Read the argument against the use of complementary medicines. Over half of Australians use complementary therapies, at a cost of about $AUD1.8 billion a year, to either prevent or treat health problems…
Read the argument for the use of complementary medicine. The question of whether doctors should provide “complementary or alternative” medicines and procedures for which there is no scientific proof of…
Use of complementary medicine (CAM) is widespread but often condemned by medical practitioners as being baseless or quackery. But some practices that fall under the umbrella of CAM do have a basis in evidence…
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NHMRC Emerging Leader Research Fellow, University of Sydney
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Founder of the Australian Health Care Reform Alliance & Emeritus Professor, UNSW Sydney
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Health activist, Medreach Pty Ltd., Bond University
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Professor of Bioethics & Medicine, Sydney Health Ethics, Haematologist/BMT Physician, Royal North Shore Hospital and Director, Praxis Australia, University of Sydney
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Honorary Associate, Australian Institute for Primary Care and Ageing, La Trobe University
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Conjoint Clinical Associate Professor, Deakin University School of Medicine and Specialist Pain Medicine Physician, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Chiropractic, Macquarie University
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Senior lecturer in Pharmacology, University of Adelaide
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Secretary-General, International Human Frontier Science Program Organisation; Emeritus Professor, Monash University, Monash University
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Senior Research Fellow in General Practice and Primary Health Care, The University of Melbourne
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Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist & Associate Professor, University of Adelaide
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Co-Director, Australasian Cochrane Centre, Monash University
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Director, Evidence and Methods, National COVID-19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce; Associate Professor (Research), Cochrane Australia, School of Population Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Monash University
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Professor of Psychiatry, UNSW & Black Dog Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Public Health, Southern Cross University
