[escepticos] Concesion a la homeopatia en UK

[Josep Maria Soler]

Pinta mal, aunque no he conseguido todavia el artículo completo.

Published 20 May 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b2055
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;338:b2055

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Drugs agency grants its first licence to homoeopathic product
Deborah Cohen

1 BMJ


The United Kingdom's drugs agency has given a licence to the makers of a 
homoeopathic product, despite scientists and researchers saying that no 
evidence shows that it works. Since September 2006 the Medicines and 
Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has been allowed to grant 
licences to traditional therapies if their use "is plausible on the basis of 
long standing use and experience" and no evidence shows that they cause 
harm. At the end of last month, Nelsons Arnicare Arnica 30c pillules became 
the first product in the UK to be given such a licence by the agency, which 
will enable its manufacturers to make therapeutic claims for it. Edzard 
Ernst, the UK's only professor of complementary medicine, said that the 
agency's national rules scheme was "making a mockery of evidence based 
medicine." On the packaging, the makers will be able to describe the product 
as "a homoeopathic medicinal product used . . . [Full text of this article]

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