Homemade silver remedy leaves patient with the permanent blues: Aussie case report
A homemade silver solution for a flu-like illness left a patient with the permanent blues after he developed argyria, SA doctors report. The 63-year old…
Tag: Complementary and alternative medicine
Mark Butler will bring back private health cover for alternative medicine ‘as soon as possible’
The Federal Government has agreed to lift the ban on private health insurers funding naturopathy, yoga, Western herbal medicine and tai chi, says the Minister…
Let insurers fund naturopathy again, says govt review led by Professor Michael Kidd
A long-delayed review of the ban on private health insurers funding 16 alternative therapies has recommended lifting the ban for seven of them. The ban…
Chinese medicine practitioner tells tribunal he did not understand that the pancreas produced insulin
A Chinese medicine practitioner whose patient died after stopping her diabetes medication believed that toxins were responsible for high glucose levels, a tribunal has heard.…
Don’t scapegoat doctors when their patients are harmed by alternative therapists
Earlier this year a coronial inquest took place in Byron Bay, NSW. It concerned a Lismore man who had died in 2021 after a reaction…
Pharmacist used names of dead doctors in plan to supply unproven medicines
A pharmacist used dead doctors’ details to create patient dispensing records for an unapproved medication that she planned to sell at “considerable cost” in her…
GP banned after diagnosing Lyme disease based on ‘muscle testing’
A GP who relied on ‘muscle testing’ to incorrectly diagnose patients with Lyme disease and Q fever over a 10-year period has been banned from…
Gut-directed hypnotherapy in IBS
Irritable bowel syndrome is characterised by chronic functional gastrointestinal symptoms of abdominal pain and altered bowel habits.1 Other clinical features that are also frequently described…
Chinese medicine practitioner inflicts 2.5cm pneumothorax during woman’s treatment for back pain
A Chinese medicine practitioner who punctured a woman’s lung with an acupuncture needle was not registered to practise, a tribunal has heard. Gyu Hyuk Han…
Doctors dig out root cause of drug-induced thrombocytopenia: case study
A middle-aged woman’s ill-fated pursuit of weight loss with the aid of a Mexican herbal supplement landed her in hospital with severe cardiologic and haematologic…
