Dangers of scientific bias against herbal drugs for coronavirus disease 2019

On May 15, 2020, the Lancet published an article titled Use of Herbal Drugs to Treat COVID-19 Should be with Caution. While this is true of all drugs, herbal and otherwise, the data may be biased and deserve a scientific response. We believe these types of reports will unfairly and negatively impact...

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Autor principal: Fields, Jonathan M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Shanghai Changhai Hospital. Published by ELSEVIER B.V. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7498439/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33008774
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joim.2020.09.005
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description On May 15, 2020, the Lancet published an article titled Use of Herbal Drugs to Treat COVID-19 Should be with Caution. While this is true of all drugs, herbal and otherwise, the data may be biased and deserve a scientific response. We believe these types of reports will unfairly and negatively impact the field of integrative medicine as a whole, and must be answered with facts and statistics that more accurately represent the current situation.
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spelling pubmed-74984392020-09-18 Dangers of scientific bias against herbal drugs for coronavirus disease 2019 Fields, Jonathan M. J Integr Med Commentary On May 15, 2020, the Lancet published an article titled Use of Herbal Drugs to Treat COVID-19 Should be with Caution. While this is true of all drugs, herbal and otherwise, the data may be biased and deserve a scientific response. We believe these types of reports will unfairly and negatively impact the field of integrative medicine as a whole, and must be answered with facts and statistics that more accurately represent the current situation. Shanghai Changhai Hospital. Published by ELSEVIER B.V. 2020-11 2020-09-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7498439/ /pubmed/33008774 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joim.2020.09.005 Text en © 2020 Shanghai Changhai Hospital. Published by ELSEVIER B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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