Most non-interventional back pain treatments are useless: systematic review
Only 10% of non-interventional treatments for lower back pain are likely to provide any relief, and those effects are small, a systematic review has found.…
Tag: Evidence-based medicine
Musk, death threats and the tinfoil hats — should doctors quit Twitter for good?
For some, it is a seething malignancy of vitriolic hate laced with fake news and tinfoil conspiracy theories — a virtual reality fostering a new…
‘The NSW Government needs to realise people will die’: Psychiatry registrar quits for Victoria
NSW is home for psychiatry registrar Dr Nithya Reddy. It is where she grew up, undertook all of her medical training so far and became…
‘Medicine is witchcraft’: Parents who believed God would cure daughter’s diabetes found guilty of manslaughter
All 14 members of a fringe religious group have been found guilty of the manslaughter of an eight-year-old who died after her insulin was withheld.…
Trump’s great public health experiment: What happens when you give the car keys to the medically deluded?
The US, despite its vast resources, has long struggled to provide all of its citizens with healthcare in times of need. Vested medical and insurance…
Cancer Council takes out Australia’s top gong for shonky science
Cancer Council WA has won the not-so-coveted annual Bent Spoon award from Australian Skeptics for offering oncology patients free ‘energy-balancing’ reiki sessions. It beat off…
‘I was a professor when I sat my GP exams’: Evidence-based medicine star Professor Paul Glasziou retires
When Professor Paul Glasziou first went through medical training in the late ’70s, doctors were taught based on understanding the disease process and what seemed…
Is failure to conduct reproducibility studies the latest clinical research crisis?
Pressure to publish new findings is a key reason reproducibility studies are being pushed to the wayside, researchers say. Despite being a crucial test of…
The AMA is wrong — the medical board must make cognitive screening of older doctors mandatory
I am a middle-aged GP. As such, I have a while to go before I am likely to be subject to the mandatory health check…
Trust in science and government eroded by pandemic response, says official COVID-19 report
The official report on Australia’s COVID-19 response says the initial high level of adherence and co-operation is unlikely to repeat in a future health emergency.…
