Myth-based medicine

Myth-based medicine.

Evidence was meant to deliver us from foolishness. The promoters of evidencebased medicine (EBM) assert, ‘Good doctors use both individual clinical expertise and the best available evidence, and that neither alone is enough.’1 This is to say they think good doctors need only expertise besides evidence. What though is this thing we call expertise? Surprisingly, an agreed definition of expertise ...

Personalized Medicine in Ocular Fibrosis: Myth or Future Biomarkers

Significance: Fibrosis-related events play a part in the pathogenesis or failure of treatment of virtually all the blinding diseases around the world, and also account for over 40% of all deaths. It is well established that the eye and other tissues of some group of patients, for example Afro-Caribbean people, scar worse than others. However, there is a current lack of reliable biomarkers to st...

Disturbance Pharmacopoeias: Medicine and Myth from the Humid Tropics

The much-publicized quest for miracle drug plants in tropical rainforests has provided compelling support for the preservationist agenda. This article questions the assumptions that underpin this claim, particularly the myth that pristine forest represents the primary repository of nature’s medicinal providence. After tracing colonial European efforts at medicinal plant discovery, intellectual ...

Myth-information about family medicine: is fiction better than truth?

Antioxidants in food: mere myth or magic medicine?

The powerful action of antioxidants in preventing premature lipid oxidation in food suggests that the same compounds, when consumed with the daily diet, could unfold antioxidative/anti-aging effects in the human body. Therefore, it has been hypothesized that antioxidants are helpful in preventing various diseases. More detailed chemical and physiological examination of antioxidants shows, howev...