Interesting articles

  • Please consider signing the alltrials.net petition which calls for pharmaceutical companies to register and publish all trials.
  • Roy Jobson exposes fake malaria prevention and treatment claims.
  • Constitutional Court rules that Department of Correctional Services was responsible for Dudley Lee's TB infection
  • An incorrigible perversion: Solal's breast cancer claims.
  • Lucas Ledwaba in City Press: Role of medicine man in Marikana massacre.
  • Which Complementary and Alternative Therapies Merit Study? (Free registration required to read this excellent article on Medscape.)
  • Solal and News24 opinion piece get it wrong on food labelling regulations.
  • The dangers of Chinese alternative medicines
  • The March issue of Focus on Alternative and Complementary Therapies has been posted with free access. Many excellent articles.
  • Tim Noakes on carbohydrates - fad or fact? By Jacques Rousseau
  • Nicoli Nattrass's new book, The AIDS Conspiracy: Science Fights Back, has been published.
  • Letter by Italian HIV Forum complaining about AIDS denialist Professor Marco Ruggiero’s yoghurt treatment
  • Alternative medicine controversy at Australian universities
  • A call for access to oral morphine:Read the Morphine Manifesto and its accompanying press release. Consider signing the petition.
  • The dangers of bad science journalism. This excellent article by Anton Harber analyses a particularly bad article that appeared in the Star.
  • Some of the dodgy AIDS remedies sold across the African continent.
  • Nutrition in a pill?
  • Immunisation push propels India towards victory in war against polio
  • Battlefield Acupuncture:The US Military's bizarre foray into alternative pain-relief
  • Boots told to stop making medical claims for pills with no active ingredient
  • How doctors die. It's not like the rest of us but it should be.
  • Teenage blogger, Rhys Morgan, exposes Burzynski Clinic and its nonsense cancer treatment. The response? The clinic threatens him with legal action.
  • Important article in the British Medical Journal: The assault on universalism - how to destroy the welfare state.