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- From: wsadjw@rwc.urc.tue.nl (Jan Willem Nienhuys)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: Homeopathy
- Message-ID: <6767@tuegate.tue.nl>
- Date: 26 Dec 92 13:48:05 GMT
- References: <1hac1cINN4uf@grapevine.EBay.Sun.COM> <6762@tuegate.tue.nl> <1992Dec25.184036.123@Princeton.EDU>
- Sender: root@tuegate.tue.nl
- Reply-To: wsadjw@urc.tue.nl
- Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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- In article <1992Dec25.184036.123@Princeton.EDU> rdnelson@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Roger D. Nelson) writes:
- >includes asthma specifically, but there are some studies, e.g. Janssen,
- >in the Nederlands Tijdschraft Voor Integralle Gneeskund, 1989, 5,
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- Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Integrale Geneeskunde
-
- >586-594, that do specifically examine effects of meditation and some
- >related dietary intervention on asthma. Wilson, et al, for Kaiser
- >Permanente (in press, but I don't know where) showed in randomized
- >clinical trials that the behavioral approach could reduce office visits
- >for acute asthma by 27 to 49% depending on the study subgroup.
- >
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- Over 25 years ago a lung specialist referred me to a physiotherapist,
- to take breathing exercises and practising certain forms of relaxation.
- It helped. Such methods are also in use today. I don't see so much news
- in the approach sketched. And, the magazine you mention is typically
- something to be found on the newsstands of New Age bookshops. That means
- that their referees might be not too strict about proper experimental
- design. If a Dutch researcher has something interesting to report, s/he
- should try to get it into the Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde
- (which appears every week, and which is read widely and has high standards).
-
- Yuk, how do I hate myself for rejecting unseen an article that might be
- interesting, and that on Christmas.
-
- JWN
-