Alastair H. MacLennan

TL;DR: The rates of use and types of alternative medicine and therapists used by this population in 1993, and correlations with other demographic and medical variables are assessed, show women were more likely to consult naturopaths, iridiologists, and reflexologists than men.

TL;DR: To define the prevalence of pelvic floor disorders in a non‐institutionalised community and to determine the relationship to gender, age, parity and mode of delivery.

TL;DR: In 1997 the research committee of the Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand competitively funded a special initiative to bring together the modern literature on the causation of cerebral palsy, and to try to define an objective template of evidence to better identify cases of cortex palsy where the neuropathology began or became established around labour and birth.

TL;DR: The public appears to have ambivalent standards for alternative therapies but wishes to be empowered with accurate information to facilitate self-prescription, and expenditure on alternative therapies was nearly four times the public contribution to all pharmaceuticals.

TL;DR: Oral HT is highly effective in alleviating hot flushes and night sweats and must be assessed in blinded trials against a placebo or a validated therapy because of the large placebo effect seen in well conducted randomised controlled trials, and also because during menopause symptoms may fluctuate and after menopausal symptoms often decline.