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A potential breakthrough treatment for asthma sufferers has been unveiled by British scientists.
Researchers have found that treating severely affected patients with bronchial thermoplasty, or specially-heated air fed into the lungs, leads to "significant" improvements.
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A leading pharmacologist has criticised degrees in complementary medicine for claiming to offer scientific teaching. David Colquhoun, a pharmacologist at University College London, said many complementary medicines were not based on scientific evidence and should not be studied as part of a BSc degree. "Yet this sort of gobbledegook is being taught in some UK universities as though it were science."
Brian Isbell, head of the University of Westminster's department of complementary therapies defended the BSc description. He said at the university, which offers 14 BSc CAM courses, students have to study disease, carry out research and produce critiques of literature.
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