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Research Archive
Welcome to our Chinese medicine and acupuncture research news pages. We add to the content of these pages continuously as more research news comes in. Browse through the complete archive below or use the category links on the right.
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Excellent news for UK practitioners of herbal medicine
Categories: Herbal medicine, Comment
At first glance, this appears to be the decision we have been hoping for. A written Ministerial Statement from the Department of Health issued today reads as follows: Practitioners of acupuncture, herbal medicine and traditional Chinese medicine: The Secretary of State for Health (Mr Andrew Lansley): The issue of whether or not practitioners of acupuncture, herbal medicine and traditional Chinese ...
Edzard Ernst holds forth again
Categories: General discussion, Comment
A single injury - let alone a fatality - caused by acupuncture is one too many, but we have to wonder why Dr. Edzard Ernst, Chair in Complementary Medicine at the University of Exeter, keeps emphasising the risks of acupuncture.
'Walking is man's best medicine.' Hippocrates
Categories: General discussion, Comment
There are a number of health trends that are causing increasing concern - especially to policy makers and health funders in developed countries with a growing proportion of ageing people.
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Categories: General discussion, Comment
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The European Directive on Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products - what's it got to do with you?
Categories: Herbal medicine, Comment
This is a piece of EU legislation which could cause major problems for UK herbalists and their patients when it comes into force on 1st April 2011.
Acupuncture - a treatment to die for? A review of Edzard Ernst's article in The Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
Categories: Acupuncture, Comment
Acupuncture – a treatment to die for? A review of Edzard Ernst's article in The Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
In his editorial, Ernst says of acupuncture that, "serious complications, including deaths, have been noted with some regularity".(Ernst 2010) This, along with the dramatic title, is a disturbing statement. However after reading the article one is left wi ...
Old Wives Tales
Categories: General discussion, Comment
Some clever people can be really ... well, a bit dim. The Voice of Young Science organised a demonstration on September 8th at Whitehall in London to protest against proposals for a registration scheme for practitioners of traditional medicine (Acupuncture, Herbal Medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine and other Traditional Medicine Systems). They've come up with the hilarious idea of issuing "Dip ...
Acupuncture switches off brain's pain regions
Categories: Acupuncture, Comment
Recent research into how acupuncture affects the brain has improved our understanding of the complex neural mechanisms involved in the procedure and may lead to wider acceptance of the treatment by mainstream medicine.
Scientists from the UK's University of York and Hull York Medical school, working with colleagues at University College London and the University of Southampton, needled the acupun ...
Chronic pelvic pain syndrome in men
Acupuncture repeatedly demonstrates beneficial effect in this difficult and intractable disorder.
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