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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.

Please note that the most twenty recent research archive items are free to view but access to the thousands of items in the archive require a journal subscription.

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Acupuncture and sham equally effective for chemo nausea

Categories: Acupuncture research
An RCT carried out by Swedish researchers has found that acupuncture which causes deqi and sham acupuncture are experienced by patients as equally effective at treating radiotherapy-induced nausea.
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Electro-acupuncture as effective as drugs for labour induction

Categories: Pregnancy & labour
A Brazilian group has shown that electro-acupuncture (EA) can be used to promote labour as efficiently as the prostaglandin analogue misoprostol, but with fewer obstetric complications.
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Moxibustion shortens labour and reduces pain

Categories: Pregnancy & labour
Moxibustion at Sanyinjiao SP-6 may be able to markedly shorten the active phase of the first stage of labour and decrease pain due to uterine contractions, according to Taiwanese researchers.
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Acupuncture reduces dental anxiety

Categories: Psychological / emotional, Dental
An Austrian research group has shown that auricular acupuncture can be used to effectively reduce anxiety in patients awaiting dental treatment.
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Acupuncture helps asthma rehabilitation

Categories: Respiratory disorders
The addition of acupuncture to an inpatient asthma rehabilitation programme results in improvement in bronchial hyper-reactivity and reduced anxiety for paediatric patients.
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How much could acupuncture save the NHS on back pain?

Categories: Acupuncture, Comment
At a time when reducing costs is a priority for all healthcare systems - an issue which is at the forefront of controversial National Health Service reforms in the UK - it is essential to consider different approaches to the treatment of difficult and expensive conditions. A recent Canadian study, for example, has found that patients with chronic lower back pain who receive acupuncture are signif ...
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Acupuncture reduces cost of back pain

Categories: Back
Patients with low-back pain (LBP) are less likely to visit physicians for LBP after receiving acupuncture treatment, leading to reduced healthcare spending on LBP. In a case control study carried out in Canada, 201 cases in which LBP was treated with acupuncture were compared with 804 controls.  Each acupuncture group case was matched with four comparison cases from the general population wit ...
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Ear acupuncture enhances athletic recovery

Categories: Acupuncture research, Lifestyle research
Auricular acupuncture (AA) can enhance athletes' recovery after strenuous exercise, suggests the results of a Taiwanese study.
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Mindfulness has positive effect on urban youth

Categories: Lifestyle research
Research from the USA suggests that teaching mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) to urban youths may have a positive effect on hostility levels, interpersonal relationships, school achievement and physical health.
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