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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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Categories: General discussion, Comment
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Acupuncture alleviates breast cancer hot flushes

Categories: Cancer
Traditional acupuncture (TA) offers an effective non-pharmaceutical method of managing the hot flushes and night sweats (HF&NS) associated with taking tamoxifen for breast cancer, according to
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Acupuncture reduces colicky crying

Categories: Babies & children / paediatrics
Swedish researchers have shown that minimal acupuncture can shorten the duration and reduce the intensity of crying in infants with colic.
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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.
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Acupuncture benefits ICSI in certain kinds of infertility

Categories: Infertility
A Brazilian team has found that the ability of acupuncture to benefit fertility treatment may depend on the cause of the woman's infertility. Four hundred and sixteen patients undergoing intracytoplasmic sperm injection cycles were randomised to either a control group or acupuncture (performed immediately before and after embryo transfer). When the results were analysed as a whole, no influence of ...
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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 ...
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Acupuncture affects men and women differently

Categories: Acupuncture research
Two new studies suggest that acupuncture may have different effects on men and women.
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SP-6 has immediate effects on menstrual pain

Categories: Gynaecology
Chinese researchers have found that electroacupuncture (EA) at Sanyinjiao SP-6 has a specific and immediate beneficial effect on dysmenorrhoea, compared with
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Fish oil reduces breast cancer risk

Categories: Diet research
Postmenopausal women who take fish oil supplements may reduce their breast cancer risk, suggests an American study. The Vitamins and Lifestyle (VITAL) cohort study followed 35,016 postmenopausal women (50 to 76 years), who were asked to answer questions about their use of non-vitamin, non-mineral supplements. After six years of follow up, 880 cases of breast cancer were identified. The researchers ...
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