Health and related issues

Alternative medicine:
Alternative medicine (overview) Acupuncture Chiropractic Herbal medicine How safe are herbal remedies? Homeopathy Homeopathic dilutions Homeopathic potentisation

Related issues:

Placebo effects
Testing and alternative medicine.
How do ineffective treatments become accepted as real?
Double blind trials. - A look at why randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials are the gold standard in testing.
The mystical nature of alternative medicine.
A look at the common theme in alternative medicine and what makes many people so critical of them.
I know it works.
Why some people think that they "know" treatments work.
The media say it works!
A critical look at why, despite a multitude of failures, there are always new claims proving that alternative remedies work after all.
How ineffective treatments can appear to work.
It works in animals.
An examination of claims that alternative treatments work in animals.
Scaremongering and bogus health cures.
Why do people use alternative medicine?