Tag: CAM

Yoghurt to prevent diarrhoea from antibiotics in children

This article was published in Medical Observer. The article is also available on the Medical Observer website (may need registration).

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St John’s wort for minor depression

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Echinacea for treating the common cold in children

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Phone interview on ABC North and West SA

I gave a phone interview with Angela Smallacombe, Producer of the ABC North and West morning program regarding my article on common cold treatments on The Conversation.

Health Check: can you treat the common cold?

Health Check: can you treat the common cold? By Michael Tam With symptoms including a runny nose, sore throat, sneezing, cough, headaches and fever, the common cold can leave you feeling rotten for up to two weeks. As the name suggests, they’re annoyingly common, with the average adult likely to get two or three colds …

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Interview with Medical Observer

I was interviewed today by Emily Dunn, a health journalist from Medical Observer regarding my thoughts on the new interesting study by Kwoh et al. (2014), on the effect of glucosamine on knee osteoarthritis progression, as assessed using MRI, which was just published in the journal, Arthritis and Rheumatology.

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