Complementary therapies safe and effective for cancer patients
FAILURE to integrate complementary therapies into medical education and a risk-averse profession mean cancer patients are missing out on beneficial treatments, a conference has heard.
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Tough TGA may obliterate CAMs
THE alternative medicines industry and its critics finally agree on something – if tough TGA-drafted rules about proving product claims are adopted by manufacturers, the $5 billion industry will be obliterated.
Herbal remedy death leads to call for TGA action
THE TGA has been urged to step up regulation of herbal remedies, along with public awareness campaigns on the dangers of buying products online, after a man died from renal failure linked to a herbal treatment. The call comes as naturopaths and herbalists seek registered health practitioner status under AHPRA. But Dr Brian Morton, chair of the AMA’s Council of General Practice, said the case was further evidence against the push. “It’s not evidence-based [medicine], and until it adopts a scientific and evidence-based approach, it will always be fringe,” he said. Writing in the MJA, ...
Herbal medicines a major health hazard
HERBAL medicines need to be treated with the same level of scrutiny as conventional drugs, experts warn, and can pose a serious threat to a patient’s health. Despite the potential for dangerous interactions, researchers say herbal medicines are still flying under the radar when patients are asked what medications they are taking. They are also often overlooked as a possible cause of death, and forensic pathologists say their contribution to mortality remains unclear. St John’s wort, for example, can reduce the efficacy of warfarin, interfere with chemotherapy agents and cause intermenstrual bleeding in woman taking oral ...