Homeopathy already gets away with passing their products off as medicine with little interference from the FDA. A new bill was just introduced to make it even easier for them.
https://t.co/PsORNlQ7vL
A new study found high rates of liver failure among patients using alternative medicine, many of which had high levels of heavy metals and other contaminants. And yet, the US still refuses to regulate the multi-billion dollar supplement industry.
https://t.co/LPGRniF8Qf
Collecting data and building an evidence base is good, but is "Promoting Chinese medicine health literacy" compatible with evidence based medicine or just a dogmatic attempt to cherry pick endpoints and shoehorn it into current medical practice in #HongKong? Discuss.
Dorothy Yeung, Research Manager of Our Hong Kong Foundation, responds to the 2026-27 Budget released on 25 February.
Dorothy Yeung welcomes the injection of HKD 500 million into the Chinese Medicine Development Fund, but it is crucial to ensure funded projects align with the "Chinese Medicine Development Blueprint."
She suggests that the Fund should prioritise projects that combine clinical data from Chinese Medicine Clinics and Training and Research Centres and the Chinese Medicine Hospital. She also recommends that the Government step up public education on Chinese medicine health literacy, actively promoting the “preventive treatment of disease” concept. Furthermore, he proposed demonstrating the effectiveness of Chinese medicine through locally based clinical evidence, thereby supporting the international promotion of Chinese medicine.
#Budget #The202627Budget #HealthcareAndSocialInnovation #ChineseMedicine #CMDF #Chinesemedicinehealthliteracy
Are you looking for John Connor? Or at least an apocalyptic pub discussion about where AI is taking us. Don’t miss our #SITP meetup tomorrow night at Spot Bar
Is AI an existential threat to humanity? I for one salute our future AI overlords. Next #SITP#HongKong meetup at Spot Bar on Tuesday Feb 24 https://t.co/shcBt96MI6
Is AI an existential threat to humanity? I for one salute our future AI overlords. Next #SITP#HongKong meetup at Spot Bar on Tuesday Feb 24 https://t.co/shcBt96MI6
Our September #HongKong#SITP meetup tonight covers a biggie: we’ll discuss what really happened on September 11th 2001! Still time to sign up and join
https://t.co/R51UzAjUnK
⚠️👀The founder/landlord of Hong Kong's top international school demands an end to all non-Christian teaching, a ban on any LGBTQ teaching or tolerance, a ban on any religious festivals other than Christian festivals, or they'll evict the operators and re-found the school.
#SITP#HongKong has a "MeatUp" tomorrow at 7pm at Flaming Frangos in Soho on the science and future of meat and meat alternatives. Please RSVP if you have not already and would like to come:
https://t.co/Rg9tyN1AsR
It's time for another #HongKong#SITP Skeptics in the Pub Quiz! Join us Tuesday, May 27, 2025 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM upstairs at Flaming Frango https://t.co/XNHf0KJQte
Hong Kong man suffers ‘flesh-eating infection’ after acupuncture, leg amputated.
SCMP on the "wisdom of the (not believing in germ theory) ancients"
https://t.co/SQU2OLfB6Q via @scmpnews