Infections of the reproductive tract, complications after childbirth, and reproductive problems continue to be a major health challenge worldwide. An impressive number of plant species is traditionally used to remedy such afflictions, and some have been investigated for their efficacy with positive results. A total of 105 plant species belonging to 91 genera and 62 families were documented and ...

investigate its toxicity to the rat. They noted that animals dying after sulphaguanidine showed goitres which on microscopical section were found to be due to hyperplasia and were practically free from colloid. The same effect was produced more or less by other sulpha drugs such as sulphadiazine and sulphapyridine, and Richter and Clisby (1942) showed that other sulphur compounds, notably thiou...

Having considered the limitations and the challenges of homeopathic treatments one would wonder if this modality is just another manifestation of the placebo response. Thus, subjecting homeopathic remedies to the same rigors of testing as those of pharmaceuticals through placebo-controlled clinical trials (RCT) would imply testing a placebo form against another. The responses observed from home...

BACKGROUND Flower remedies (also called "Bach" flower remedies) are used by an increasing number of individuals, and many health claims have been made for them. No systematic review of flower remedies has so far been published. AIM The aim of this systematic review is to summarise and critically analyse the data from all available controlled clinical trials of flower remedies. METHODS Six d...

Pseudoreplication is the failure of a statistical analysis to properly incorporate the true structure of randomness present in the data. It has been well documented and studied in the ecological literature but has received little attention in the fisheries literature. Avoiding pseudoreplication in analyses of fisheries data can be difficult due to the complexity of the statistical procedures re...