[escepticos] RV: homeopathy refund stopped

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-----Original Message-----
De: Willem Betz
Fecha: sábado 24 de enero de 1998 16:27
Asunto: homeopathy refund stopped


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>The British Medical Journal, May 1997, Volume 314, page 1574 stated that
>the London health authority decided to stop payment for homeopathic
>treatment because there "is not enough evidence to support its use."
>More than 500 patients a year were referred for homeophathic
>treatments.  The money spent on complementary treatments could have paid
>for 100 hip replacments.  They have decided to pay for only evidence
>based treatments and found that the studies describing homeopathic
>treatments were "methodologically poor."  Spokesperson for the Royal
>Homoeopathic Hospital stated that "We should not have to justify
>ourselves more than conventional medicine.  Only 50% of conventional
>medicine is evidence based."
>Willem Betz
>Private: Kanadezenlaan, 75
>B-2920 Kalmthout, Belgium
>phone/fax:++32/3/666.52.61
>email home: wbetzhome en skynet.be
>Office:
>Laarbeeklaan, 103
>B-1090 Brussels, Belgium
>tel: +32/2/477.43.11
>fax:+32/2/477.43.01
>email office: wbetz en huis.vub.ac.be
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