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Article: Natural cures just 'placebos' ; A city medic has repeated his belief that homeopathic medicines are placebos following the publication of new figures about their use.
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- Express & Echo (Exeter UK)
- Article date:
- July 26, 2008
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A city medic has repeated his belief that homeopathic medicines
are placebos following the publication of new figures about their
use.
The number of prescriptions issued for homeopathic remedies has
almost halved in two years to 49,300 in 2007 from 83,000 in 2005,
statistics from the Prescription Pricing Authority show.
That is despite an overall increase in the number of
prescriptions written in primary care from 720 million in 2005 to
796.3 million in 2007.
Edzard Ernst, professor of complementary medicine at the
Peninsula Medical School in Exeter and a vocal critic of homeopathy,
told The Pulse medical newspaper the latest figures "reflect a more
critical attitude on homeopathy and a ...