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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
When London faced the bubonic plague in 1665, many people desperately sought a way to protect themselves and their loved ones from getting sick. One…
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