How Does A Doctor Critically Review A Healthcare Product?
Medical Author: Dennis Lee, M.D. A Traditional Chinese Herb Lowers Cholesterol? Many viewers have e-mailed us questions regarding alternative medicine and herbal medicine products. Medicinenet.com doctors recognize the importance of these topics and are organizing proper resources to address them. Meanwhile, it is important that viewers understand Medicinenet.com’s publishing philosophy and priority. MedicineNet.com’s first priority is to present information that has withstood critical review by expert physicians. Our goal is to do more than just report information. We aim to interpret information and place it in proper perspective for our viewers. To conduct a “critical review” of a healthcare product, we ask the following questions: • How does the product work? • Have animal studies been done? • Have human studies (clinical trials) been conducted? • Were these studies performed by reputable scientists using sound study designs and methodology? • Were the results of these studies dupl
