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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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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 ...
Researchers find Chinese Herbal Medicine more effective than modern medicine for female infertility
Categories: Herbal medicine, Comment
In an Australian Government-funded study, Ried and Stuart of Adelaide University reviewed 8 RCT’s and 22 smaller studies involving a total of 1851 women with poor fertility. Meta-analysis of studies involving over 1000 women found roughly double the likelihood of achieving pregnancy with Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) than with western drug therapy. Over a 4 month period pregnancy rates were ...
Quest for Personalised Health: Exploring the Emergent Interface of East Asian Medicines and Modern System Sciences
Categories: General discussion, Comment
A cutting edge 'Quest for Personalised Health: Exploring the Emergent Interface of East Asian Medicines and Modern System Sciences' conference took place in London over the weekend, bringing together systems biologists, physicists, sinologists and Ch ...
Statutory regulation for UK herbalists
Categories: Herbal medicine, Comment
In February, the UK government's Department of Health announced that herbalists, including practitioners of Chinese herbal medicine, will be regulated by the Health Professions Council (HPC) from April 2012
Confusion over implications of EU regulation of traditional herbal medicines
Categories: General discussion, Comment
The EU's Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive (THMPD) has now come into force in the UK, amid dismay and confusion over its implications for manufacturers, retailers and consumers of herbal medicines
Why do these people think they are so clever?
This week a prime UK Sunday paper (The Sunday Times) carried a review for a book about the aging process (You're Looking Very Well by Lewis Wolpert) ...
Acupuncture more effective than sham acupuncture for chronic pelvic pain syndrome
An earlier Drum Tower posting (06/09/2010) described some of the exciting research into the use of acupuncture for treating chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CPPS) in men - a refractory disorder for which acupuncture is showing signs of offering effective treatment. Another hot issue at the moment is whether true (verum) acupuncture can be shown to be more effective than sham acupuncture, follow ...
Acupuncture found to help reduce hot flushes
Evidence being presented this weekend at the largest UK acupuncture research forum, the ARRC Symposium, will highlight the benefits of acupuncture to reduce the severity and frequency of hot flushes in postmenopausal women.
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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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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