How do we make informed health decisions about traditional, complementary & integrative medicine (TCIM)?

This updated interpretive review explores the challenges.
📖 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213422025001118?via%3Dihub

🔍 The synthesis of 167 publications, including WHO, EVIPNet, GRADE, and TCIM-specific guidance affirmed the importance of:
1. Transparent decision-making processes with TCIM stakeholders
2. Context-sensitive framing to optimise TCIM relevance
3. Whole-of-evidence approach, including traditional knowledge (TK)
4. Centering equity, including epistemic equity

TCIM guideline developers are leading the way with rigorous, inclusive strategies evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM).

By respecting diverse knowledge systems, these innovations offer valuable models for global health policy and guideline development.

#TCM #EvidenceBasedMedicine #acupuncture #research #medicine

Evidence based medicine is challenging some long held beliefs about prescribing practices. Is it time for some new guidelines for aspirin?
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Africa: From Scepticism to Science - How Two Doctors Embraced Evidence-Based Harm Reduction: [allAfrica] Back in 2014, what started as a routine check-up for a patient turned into something Dr Rohan Sequeira, a medical doctor from India, still cherishes today. As an expert in Cardiology, Dr Sequeira had for years prescribed complete cessation of smoking to his patients as a way of slowing… http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TPNhqr #HarmReduction #EvidenceBasedMedicine #Cardiology #PublicHealth #SmokingCessation

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Bradford Hill criteria help establish causation between exposure and disease in epidemiology. #BradfordHillCriteria #Causation #Epidemiology #Biostatistics #PublicHealth #ResearchMethods #EvidenceBasedMedicine #MedicalEducation #USMLE

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Off-label drug use involves prescribing approved drugs for unapproved indications under clinical judgment. #OffLabelUse #Pharmacology #DrugSafety #FDA #ClinicalPractice #MedicalEthics #EvidenceBasedMedicine #MedicalEducation #USMLE

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Clinical trials test safety and efficacy of treatments through Phases I–IV in medical research. #ClinicalTrial #Research #DrugDevelopment #RCT #Epidemiology #EvidenceBasedMedicine #MedicalEducation #USMLE #Biostatistics

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French scientists are shaking up treatment guidelines as they argue long-term aspirin on top of regular anticoagulants after a stent might do more harm than good medicalnewsbulletin.com/aspirin-ccs-... ❤️ #cardiology #hearthealth #evidencebasedmedicine lipidtime Medskies medsky 🩺⚕️ 🧪

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC27565/

Let’s not compare tumour necrosis factor with linguini

#EvidenceBasedMedicine #ebm

What a surprise!

There is some evidence that some "alternative medicine" treatments for autism work!

And at least one scientist claimed that the article shows "no evidence".

Science is difficult.
Combining it with emotions, and attitudes like #Skepticism, might occassionally make doing science too tricky.
#EvidenceBasedMedicine #Autism #AlternativeMedicine
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02256-9

@marcrr

I get wanting to show the very widespread failures & poor evidence.

Why the extra step to "no evidence"?

Oxytocin: "restricted/repetitive behaviours in adults, ... small effect size was found".

"supported by at least moderate levels of evidence ... was the consumption of polyunsaturated fatty acids in school-age children"

" number of interventions ... large effect sizes ...reached statistical significance, but ... supported by very low levels of evidence."
#EvidenceBasedMedicine

What a surprise! There's no evidence that "alternative medicine" treatments for autism work, and their security hasn't been tested. #EvidenceBasedMedicine
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02256-9
https://ebiact-database.com/

Evidence-Based Treatment Guidelines for APPs

https://www.ghapp.app/evidence-based-treatment-guidelines-for-apps

The Value of Evidence-Informed Guidelines in Gastroenterology
As gastroenterology is advancing, APPs incorporate evidence-based treatment approaches in managing patients. GHAPP has a collection of clinical guidelines that are current, have been reviewed by specialists, and are consistent with scholarly articles research.

What Is Found In The Guidelines Issued by GHAPP

#EvidenceBasedMedicine #APPs #AdvancedPracticeProviders

Know your enemy: RFK Jr.

Unfathomably imbecilic: RFK Jr. cancels $500M US in funding for vaccine development, targeting mRNA
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/vaccine-funding-pulled-mrna-1.7601981

#ignorance #ConspiracyTheorists #RFKjr

🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #GOP #Christofascism #SCOTUS #antiLGBTQ #transgenocide
🇨🇦 #Trumpism

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#capitalism #billionaires #inequality

Collaborate/advocate/educate/resist
#DemocraticSocialism #justice

#EvidenceBasedMedicine #EBM #mRNA #vaccination

🤔 What are the likely benefits and harms of non-drug and non-surgical treatments for non-specific low back pain?

This systematic review combines evidence from 31 Cochrane reviews, covering 644 trials and around 97,000 adults. It investigates the effectiveness and safety of 27 different non-drug and non-surgical treatments for non-specific low back pain in adults.

🔗 https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD014691.pub2/full

#BackPain #LowBackPain #PainManagement #Acupuncture #EvidenceBasedMedicine #Cochrane

A modern knee implant (Persona CR) was compared to PFC Sigma and NexGen CR in a randomized trial with 240 patients over 2 years. Results showed no significant differences in patient-reported function, despite the new design. Limitations include a single center, lack of imaging, and surgeons' familiarity with conventional implants. Full paper: https://actaorthop.org/actao/article/view/42708/48852 (Irmola et al., 2024) #TKA #kneereplacement #orthopedics #evidencebasedmedicine

Bridging Science and Nature: Nutrients and Therapies for Optimal Health

#HealthAndWellness #NutritionScience #BrainHealth #TMS #MentalHealth #Superfoods #MetabolicHealth #NaturalHealing #HolisticHealth #EvidenceBasedMedicine #FunctionalFoods #Neuroscience #HealthyLiving #PlantBased #WellnessJourney

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herpes “cures” are once again all over the internet. Come over to MNB to learn which therapies have clinical data supporting them, how they work, why they work and why scam cures can’t get rid of the herpes virus. https://medicalnewsbulletin.com/evidence-backed-herpes-treatments/ #virology #evidencebasedmedicine