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Judge overrides parents wishes to use cannabis, vitamins, and diet treatments and orders that three-year-old boy continue his chemo treatments for lymphoblastic leukemia. Rate of success from chemo is over 90 per cent with 98 per cent remission in first few weeks of treatment
Health Headlines Commentary for May 10, 2019 Source: Florida judge orders three-year-old boy with leukemia to resume chemo against parents’ wishes Reference: Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL)
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Global Affairs Canada providing $350K to send group of homeopaths to Honduras to treat Chagas disease. How about you use the money to pay for treatment that works instead of playing pretend?
Health Headlines Commentary for February 25, 2019 Source:Why is $350,000 in Canadian aid being used to send homeopaths to Honduras?
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Transfusing “young blood” into your body will not magically make your organs younger and/or more functional.
Health Headlines Commentary for January 18, 2019 Source: Ambrosia: ‘Young blood’ transfusions accepting PayPal payments, operating in 5 cities A controversial startup that charges $8,000 to fill patients’ veins with young blood is opening a clinic in NYC — but researchers whose work inspired it warn it’s dangerous
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Took less than a day after legalization for cannabis quackery products to climb out of the pseudoscientific morass.
Health Headlines Commentary for October 18, 2018 Source: The Ontario Cannabis Store mislabelled genital spray as oral product Comment: The claim by the maker of this product that the skin contains the most cannabinoid receptors is not supported by the evidence. Indeed, it seems that there are none in the skin. Further, there is little…
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The sunscreen pill is the epitome of a duck’s vocal expression
Health Headlines Commentary for May 31, 2018 Source: Oral sunscreen doesn’t work, Health Canada says stick to the good old-fashioned topical stuff
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Fake health news leads to false assumptions and associations with respect to cancer risks
Health Headlines Commentary for April 26, 2018 Source: A Worrying Number Of People Believe In Fake Causes Of Cancer, Study Shows Reference: Prevalence of beliefs about actual and mythical causes of cancer and their association with socio-demographic and health-related characteristics: Findings from a cross-sectional survey in England Analysis: Survey looks at common cancer myths
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The antiscience of homeopathy in all its splendour on display with latest autism cure claim
Health Headlines Commentary for April 23, 2018 Source: ‘Outrageous claims’: Canadian homeopaths say diluted vaccines can ‘recover’ kids from autism
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Coffee is supposed to enter only one orifice and it is not the one being touted by Paltrow’s company
Health Headlines Commentary for January 10, 2018 Source: Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop Promotes A $135 Coffee Enema Kit
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A spoonful of cyanide makes the medicine go down
Health Headlines Commentary for September 14, 2017 Source: Man taking alternative health supplements diagnosed with cyanide poisoning Reference: An unusual presentation of chronic cyanide toxicity from self-prescribed apricot kernel extract