…From Tasha So the last little while, I’ve been doing some thinking on why people, with seemingly homogeneous conditions, get such different responses to treatment. Specifically, I’ve been thinking about the role of patient expectation. To facilitate a chat on this topic, I’d like to discuss a paper that was recently published by the Oxford [...]

…from Steve Periodically the debate about whether or not clinicians should prescribe alternative or complementary therapies to their patients pops up in both the scientific and mainstream media. Such a debate along with sundry comments recently appeared on The Conversation blog twice (here and here) and also in a slightly different form in the Sydney Morning Herald. [...]