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... all types of alternative medicine, acupuncture is the one that has received the most approval from regular ... is now clear. It doesn’t work. See the evidence in Acupuncture is a theatrical placebo. This blog has documented many cases of misreported tests of acupuncture, often from people have a financial interests in selling it. ...
... a head-to-head contest between those who believe that acupuncture works and those who don’t. I was asked to write the latter. ... June 2013 edition of the journal [download pdf]. The pro-acupuncture article written by Wang, Harris, Lin and Gan appeared in the ...
... Medicine: Acupuncture (B343) 3FT Hon BSc Chinese Medicine: Acupuncture with Foundation (B341) 4FT/5FT Hon BSc/MSci Complementary ... Medicine: Acupuncture (B343) 3FT Hon BSc Chinese Medicine: Acupuncture with ...
... of General Practice. The June issue has a paper, "Acupuncture for ‘frequent attenders’ with medically unexplained symptoms: a ... statistics; it’s perfectly obvious at a glance that acupuncture has at best a tiny and erratic effect on any of the outcomes that ...
... A1 receptors mediate local anti-nociceptive effects of acupuncture“. The paper was not without interest, but it tells one nothing about acupuncture in humans. The mice had their paws injected with rather ...
Acupuncture has been in the news since, in a moment of madness, NICE gave it some credence, Some people still seem to think that acupuncture is somehow more respectable than, say, homeopathy and crystal ... It is now absolutely clear that ‘real’ acupuncture is indistinguishable from sham, whether the sham control uses ...
... to follow-up Acupuncture in the BMJ A new review appeared in the BMJ today. It is by Madsen ... Here are the conclusions. The analgesic effect of acupuncture is small and cannot be distinguished from bias resulting from incomplete blinding. The analgesic effect of placebo acupuncture is moderate but very variable as some large trials report ...
... BMJ Group is to begin publishing a medical journal on acupuncture from next year, it was announced today (Tuesday 11 November ... the ones that are perhaps the best on the subject of acupuncture are Singh & Ernst’s Trick or Treatment and Barker ... Both Ernst and Bausell have first hand experience of acupuncture research. And crucially, none of these authors has any financial ...
... has already written about the new study The German Acupuncture Trials (GERAC) for chronic low back painRandomized. Multicenter, ... interesting paper The main conclusion is that both sham acupuncture and ‘real’ acupuncture have essentially the same ...
... have failed to show any benefit from alternative medicine. Acupuncture no help for knee osteoarthritis This trial is particularly ... is the one thing that is always cited as a triumph for acupuncture. It is common to hear people talk about acupuncture as though it ...
... latest Cochrane review finds no good evidence that acupuncture or acupressure are effective for stopping smoking Read more on the ...
... BMJ published yet another inconclusive paper on acupuncture, but misrepresented it in their press release. Read full entry on ...
... Daily Telegraph recently published two reports about acupuncture. One said it worked. The other said it didn’t work. Needle ... not all in the mind’ By Catriona Davies, starts Acupuncture has a genuine ability to relieve pain, scientists have found. The ...
... why she’s reluctant to criticise publicly things like acupuncture or “craniosacral therapy” (at 1:25:00). I found her answers ...
... wide coverage in the press for one of the worst papers on acupuncture that I’ve come across. As so often, the paper showed the ... of this sleight of hand, try Acupuncturists show that acupuncture doesn’t work, but conclude the opposite: journal fails, ...