Health-related tags

Question

We have a number of different tags related to health, and I am wondering if we need some synonyms and a clean-up.

I propose that, on each line, the latter ones should be merged with the first.

• health, healing
• medicine, medical, evidence-based-medicine
• alternative-medicine, alt-medicines
• placebo, placebo-effect
• nutritional-supplements, supplements
• pharmaceutical, drug-development

We have many tags for particular conditions:

• cancer, breast-cancer - Not the same, but don't need both.
• common-cold, cold, flu - Not the same, but don't need both common-cold and flu.
• hiv, aids - suggest replacing with a single HIV-AIDS tag.

Any suggestions or objections?

Answer 1

Progress Report

Was Already Done

• health, healing -- Already linked to medicine
• alternative-medicine, alt-medicines
• medicine, medical,

Now Done

• pharmaceutical, drug-development
• placebo, placebo-effect
• hiv, aids - suggest replacing with a single HIV-AIDS tag.
• common-cold, cold
• nutritional-supplements, supplements
• medicine, evidence-based-medicine
• cancer, breast-cancer - Not the same, but don't need both.

Decided not to do

• common-cold, flu

Answer 2

Regarding alternative medicine - is there such thing? I would assume any question regarding "alternative" medicine could be handled as a medicine question.

Regarding health and medicine, see also Tags for medical/health questions

Answer 3

I'm prompted to suggest that alternative-medicine and natural-remedies are, in practice, synonyms.

But I think both these are useful to keep separate from medicine and medical-science.