CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE Homeopathy is a therapeutic system that uses small doses of substances to stimulate autoregulatory and self-healing processes. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of the use of homeopathy by the population of Montes Claros, Brazil, and the socioeconomic profile of users. DESIGN AND SETTING Probabilistic cross-sectional study with cluster sampling, in ...

Madam I am somewhat concerned that in the same issue of the Journal as the statistical paper entitled ‘Size does matter’1 there was an Overview on ‘Homeopathy treatments for premenstrual symptoms’2 which may be considered to have depended on evidence that contradicted the statistical paper. I would be grateful for your opinion as to the reliability of the one clinical trial by Yakir et al.3, wh...

Madam I am somewhat concerned that in the same issue of the Journal as the statistical paper entitled ‘Size does matter’1 there was an Overview on ‘Homeopathy treatments for premenstrual symptoms’2 which may be considered to have depended on evidence that contradicted the statistical paper. I would be grateful for your opinion as to the reliability of the one clinical trial by Yakir et al.3, wh...

In 2011 the Swiss government published a report on homeopathy [1]. The report was commissioned following a 2009 referendum in which the Swiss electorate decided that homeopathy and other alternative therapies should be covered by private medical insurance. Before implementing this decision, the government wished to establish whether homeopathy actually works. In February 2012 the report was pub...

Homeopathy is widely used in livestock, especially in order to reduce the use of antibiotics, although it is often seen as controversial. A comprehensive literature review has been conducted to assess the efficacy of homeopathy in cattle, pigs and poultry. Only peer-reviewed publications dealing with homeopathic remedies, which could possibly replace or prevent the use of antibiotics in the cas...

Document Summary) Homeopathy is a 200-year-old therapeutic system that uses small doses of various substances to stimulate autoregulatory and self-healing processes. Homeopathy selects substances by matching a patient's symptoms with symptoms produced by these substances in healthy individuals. Medicines are prepared by serial dilution and shaking, which proponents claim imprints information in...

BACKGROUND There is a discrepancy between the outcome of a meta-analysis published in 1997 of 89 trials of homeopathy by Linde et al and an analysis of 110 trials by Shang et al published in 2005, these reached opposite conclusions. Important data were not mentioned in Shang et al's paper, but only provided subsequently. QUESTIONS What was the outcome of Shang et al's predefined hypotheses? W...

Madam I am somewhat concerned that in the same issue of the Journal as the statistical paper entitled ‘Size does matter’1 there was an Overview on ‘Homeopathy treatments for premenstrual symptoms’2 which may be considered to have depended on evidence that contradicted the statistical paper. I would be grateful for your opinion as to the reliability of the one clinical trial by Yakir et al.3, wh...