US clinic claims CSL fixed prices of plasma

AMERICA'S Mayo Clinic claims to have lost millions of dollars at the hands of a damaging and illegal blood-plasma cartel run by Australia's biggest healthcare company, CSL, alleging in court documents that a conspiracy existed to drive down supply, inflate prices and snuff out competition.

Federal intervention is needed to rescue the NSW economy

Attempts by the NSW Government to portray the state economy as "leading the national recovery" are laughable. They are symptoms of a deeper delusion in Macquarie Street about the economic shambles this state has become, and a blindness to the challenges it faces in the coming decade as the "two-speed economy" rears its ugly head again.

The role of US evangelists in Uganda's 'kill the gays' bill

A law proposing execution for homosexuals exposes a murderous fantasy.

Electro-convulsive therapy: it works for me

Rarely have I been so disappointed with the tone and content of a news item as I was with the reporting on electro-convulsive therapy in NSW hospitals ("Shock therapy forced on patients", June 6-7). The story reinforces concerns about the misuse of ECT in the past and in repressive regimes, and its influential misrepresentation in popular culture, particularly the enduring impact of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.

It's A Cancer Clinic Called Hope. But Critics Accuse It Of Preying On The Vulnerable And Peddling Unproven Treatments, For $3500 A Week.

A MELBOURNE cancer clinic that specialises in alternative therapies acted unethically and did not fully inform dying cancer patients about the lack of scientific evidence for their treatment, despite charging them thousands of dollars, a two-year investigation is expected to find.

Seaweed Extract Offers Therapy Hope

A TASMANIAN company believes it has struck gold on the seabed by using seaweed to produce an alternative to a controversial drug that has led to dozens of deaths.

Hollyweird Healing

Alternative therapy is the new dinner party chat among ailing celebs, writes Kate Cox.

Keeping In Touch

Kinesiology, an obscure alternative therapy from America, is gaining mainstream acceptance in Australia. KATHRYN SHINE reports. KHRISTINA Totos doesn't pretend to understand kinesiology but she's sure it works. The Warriewood actress, who plays beauty therapist Polly on the SBS series, Going H

Gps' Alternative Trend

Alternative therapies appear to be moving into the mainstream in Australia, with a new study showing more than 80 per cent of general practitioners in Victoria have referred their patients for acupuncture, meditation or hypnosis. According to the survey, about a quarter of GPs have referred pati

Gps Warm To Alternative Therapies

The first comprehensive study of the use of alternative therapies by Australian doctors has shown that some of them are well accepted. Most Australian GPs have referred patients for meditation, acupuncture, hypnosis and chiropractic, according to the study published in today's issue of the Medic