Homeopathy is effective according to Swiss federal report.

The English translation of the Swiss Health Technology Assessment (HTA) report on homeopathy will be published in the UK on 30th November 2011.

The 2006 HTA report on homeopathy was commissioned by the Federal Social Insurance Office (FSIO) within the context of an overall evaluation of Complementary and Alternative Medicines (CAMs). It was written by a team of German speaking academics and edited by G Bornhöft & F Matthiessen of Witten/Herdecke University in Germany.

Interestingly, the HTA methodology, unlike meta-analyses and systematic reports such as the Cochrane Collaboration, does not just ask the question of effectiveness of a particular intervention, it also addresses the questions of effectiveness of a therapy in everyday use (i.e. real world effectiveness), how it is used, its safety and its cost-effectiveness.

You can read a taster of the contents of this exciting report on the Homeopathic Research Institute website:

http://www.homeoinst.org/news/homeopathy-effective-according-swiss-federal-report

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This entry was posted on 22 November 2011 at 12:44.