Danger and safety in medicines

O'Neill, Arthur

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“…What is clear in the FSM‐CAM news coverage is that FSM does not appear to be attempting to subsume or integrate CAM into its own repertoire of biomedical products and practices – but instead is rejecting CAM outright. Because of this outright rejection, the group is unable to put forward biomedical practitioners as the preferred and expert ‘masters’ of such substances and therapies (O'Neill ). At the same time, such positioning in media representations denigrates any members of its own profession who advocate CAM usage with some (or indeed many) of their patients.…”

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De‐legitimising complementary medicine: framings of the Friends of Science in Medicine‐CAM debate in Australian media reports

Lewis

2019

Sociology Health & Illness

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Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has developed into a complex and formidable commercial, sociocultural and political force in Australia, and given its influence, it is a relevant subject for scholars, health practitioners, health communicators, journalists, policy‐makers, and consumers of healthcare products and services. This research will consider a relative newcomer to the claims‐making space about CAM in the Australian health media‐scape; the Friends of Science in Medicine (FSM), an activist group of medical practitioners, researchers, and scientists, founded in late 2011. Using content analysis supported by NVivo, I searched for articles specifically referring to FSM and measured the patterns and frequencies of media frames, intonation and sources that are featured in Australian mainstream news reports between December 2011 and April 2017. The negative headlining and intonation of reports predominated, along with framing CAM as part of a lucrative, undisciplined and unethical industry as well as an illegitimate healthcare approach, more broadly. The findings offer insight into how journalists respond, replicate or reconstruct the framings that are provided by an influential and elite group of medical practitioners and scientists, and readdresses issues surrounding the need for more critical health reporting in Australia.

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De‐legitimising complementary medicine: framings of the Friends of Science in Medicine‐CAM debate in Australian media reports

Lewis

2019

Sociology Health & Illness

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“…A further caveat concerns the lack of standardization, quality control, and regulation of commercial herbal products in much of the world. 8,9 The studies cited herein report results of a wide range of herbal preparations, some of which may not be applicable to other preparations of the same herb.…”

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Herbal Remedies in Psychiatric Practice

Wong¹,

Smith²,

Boon³

1998

Arch Gen Psychiatry

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Patients' use of alternative and complementary health services has created a need for physicians to become informed about the current literature regarding these treatments. Herbal remedies may be encountered in psychiatric practice when they are used to treat psychiatric symptoms; produce changes in mood, thinking, or behavior as a side effect; or interact with psychiatric medications. English-language articles and translated abstracts or articles (where available) found on MEDLINE and sources from the alternative/complementary health field were reviewed. Each herb was assessed for its safety, side effects, drug interactions, and efficacy in treating target symptoms or diagnoses. A synopsis of the information available for each herb is presented. In many cases the quantity and quality of data were insufficient to make definitive conclusions about efficacy or safety. However, there was good evidence for the efficacy of St John's wort for the treatment of depression and for ginkgo in the treatment of memory impairment caused by dementia. More research is required for most of the herbs reviewed, but the information published to date is still of clinical interest in diagnosing, counseling, and treating patients who may be taking botanical remedies.

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“…It has a generally excellent safety record, the area of acute illness has not been fruitful in poses few identifiable risks to patients building credibility for acupuncture. Analgesia (Norheim, 1994;O'Neill, 1994), and unlike TE, has provided mixed results, even for chronic it has a large constituency of supporters. It will pain conditions; attenuation of drug withtherefore likely be immune from the fate that drawal syndromes is controversial; and the has befallen TE, with the possible exception of jury is not yet in on the issue of nausea and a prohibition against electroacupuncture on the emesis: in short, for every acute condition adcranium.…”

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Biophysical Modeling of the Physiology of Acupuncture

Wilson

1997

The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine

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It has been more than two decades since reports of acupuncture anesthesia used during surgery in China captured the Western imagination. Since then, some 4000 publications on the topic of acupuncture have been listed in the MEDLINE database. Basic research indicates that acupuncture stimulates neural pathways, and ultimately modulates a variety of neurotransmitter systems, particularly the opioid (endorphin) systems. Clinical research has produced more ambiguous results, suggesting that while acupuncture may have useful effects, they are generally mild. Taken as a whole, this body of work has failed to convince the general mainstream Western medical community that acupuncture is clinically useful. This situation is partly the product of differences between Eastern (prescientific philosophy-based) and Westem (nonholistic mechanistic-based) understandings of acupuncture, which on careful examination, are largely illusory. More promising clinical applications may lie in areas that Western medicine does not currently address well, such as long-term health maintenance, treating slowly developing diseases, or treating chronic conditions. If acupuncture is to assume a role in Western medicine, it is important to identify one or more specific conditions to which it is suited, and establish treatment efficacy using properly designed multisite clinical studies.

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Danger and safety in medicines

Cited by 40 publications

References 4 publications

De‐legitimising complementary medicine: framings of the Friends of Science in Medicine‐CAM debate in Australian media reports

De‐legitimising complementary medicine: framings of the Friends of Science in Medicine‐CAM debate in Australian media reports

Herbal Remedies in Psychiatric Practice

Biophysical Modeling of the Physiology of Acupuncture

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