***Excellent book: Testing Treatments: Better research for better healthcare. As Ben Goldacre says in his Forward: " Medicine should be about authority, and the most important question anyone can ask on any claim is simple: how do you know? This book is about that question. It is available from Amazon or free from the author's site or as a pdf here.
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These sites provide the best available advice on all aspects of medicine, including alternative or complementary therapies. For extensive discussion of Alternative or Complementary medicine on my site Click Here |
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| The National Health Service The NHS provides excellent advice, well-organised and written clearly. ***A-Z of medical treatments and conditions*** The First place to go for help |
| Bandolier sites. The Bandolier journal was started as an independent journal about evidence-based healthcare, written by Oxford scientists in February 1994. It has appeared monthly ever since and has become the premier source of evidence based healthcare information in the UK and worldwide for both healthcare professionals and consumers. General medical information. In this section Bandolier collects good quality evidence under a variety of different headings. They search for systematic reviews of treatments, of evidence about diagnosis, epidemiology or health economics, and abstract it. Bandolier guide to healthy living. An excellent site, grouped according to age. Bandolier extra contains Internet essays on specific topics,that can be read on-screen in HTML or are available as printable PDFs. EXAMPLES: Arthritis; Back pain; Diabetes; Mens's health; Statins; Women's health |
| The Cochrane Collaboration The Cochrane Collaboration is an international, not-for-profit independent organization, dedicated to making up-to-date, accurate information about the effects of healthcare readily available worldwide. It consists of 12 centres and over 10,000 health expert volunteers from over 90 countries. It produces systematic reviews of healthcare interventions and promotes the search for evidence in the form of clinical trials and other studies of interventions. The Cochrane Library The major product of the Collaboration is the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews which is published quarterly as part of The Cochrane Library. It is the best single source of reliable evidence about all aspects of health care. A-Z of Cochrane Reviews These are the basic material for serious discussions of evidence-based medicine. These reviews can be downloaded as pdf files. |
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