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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 training benefits doctors as well as patients
Categories: Professional
Training in acupuncture has the potential to prevent burnout among family physicians, and simultaneously increase patient safety ...
Holiday closure
Categories: Professional
Please note that our warehouse will be closed for the long holiday from 5pm UK time on Friday December 23rd to 9am on Tuesday January 3rd. We wish all our customers a wonderful seasonal break.
Empathetic consultations soothe patients' pain
Categories: Acupuncture research, Professional
Patient-centred interviewing techniques don't just put patients more at ease, they can change the brain's stress response and increase pain tolerance, according to an American research team.
Factors influencing patients willingness to try acupuncture again
Categories: Professional
A UK team has found that, for patients receiving acupuncture for chronic back pain, the benefit of pain reduction over the course of treatment outweighed any negative reactions to treatment that they might have experienced.
How patients choose acupuncturists
Categories: Professional
UK investigators have conducted a study to examine the factors that influence people when choosing an acupuncturist.
Placebos work even without deception
Categories: Acupuncture research, Professional
A Harvard team including acupuncture scholar and researcher Ted Kaptchuk has found that placebo pills work even when patients know what they are taking.
Yunnan Baiyao's secret ingredients leaked on US websites
Categories: Herb research, Professional
Chinese internet users were astonished to find the 'secret' ingredient list for the famous haemostatic herbal powder Yunnan Baiyao openly displayed on the websites of Amazon.com and the American Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Male fertility is in the bones
Categories: Professional
American scientists have found a connection between a hormone produced by bone and male fertility, echoing Chinese medical theory which says that both reproduction and the bones are governed by the Kidney.
No deaths from herbs and supplements
Categories: Herb research, Professional
Statistics from the American Association of Poison Control Centers show that no deaths were caused by dietary supplements in the country in 2008.
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