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Homœopathic Links 2016; 29(03): 226-227
DOI: 10.1055/s-0036-1586244
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NHMRC Overview on Homeopathy

V. K. Gupta
1   Padma Shri Awardee; Chairman, Scientific Advisory Committee, CCRH, Ministry of Ayush, Government of India; Formerly Principal NHMC&H, New Delhi; Honorary Physician to the President of India
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Mohit Mathur
2   Department of Internal Medicine, NHMC&H, New Delhi, India
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Publication Date:
05 October 2016 (online)

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Abstract

The National Health and Medical Research Council's conclusion on homeopathy was not legitimate because it was based on homeopathic trials that lacked homogeneity in their intervention. In some trials the intervention was isopathic. The overview and many previously conducted systematic reviews were exclusively based on randomized controlled trials that comprised only 27% of all clinical studies so far published in homeopathy. It is not rational to leave out the evidence generated through uncontrolled studies if these studies showed consistent results.

Keywords

NHMRC - RTCs - effectiveness of homeopathy - level of evidence
 

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