With the increased interest in complementary therapies, a team of scientists recently explored their use in cancer patients, and how they impacted both adherence to treatments and survival rates.

The study had received approval from the relevant institutional ethical committees. Written informed consent was obtained. In the present analysis, 1,249 cancer survivors were included following ...

They aren’t cures, but a number of therapies outside mainstream Western medicine may help relieve lung cancer symptoms and treatment side effects. Generally referred to as complementary therapies or ...

Ken Harvey has represented Choice (the Australian Consumers’ Association) on TGA consultations about regulatory reform of complementary medicines. He is also an executive member of Friends of Science ...

The period preceding the emergence of behaviourally modern humans was characterised by dramatic climatic and environmental variability – it is these pressures, occurring over hundreds of thousands of ...