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Research Updates: acupuncture
Below are short extracts from research updates about this subject - select more to read each item.
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Issue 100
MAA and colleagues, School of Nursing, Chang Gung University, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan, have carried out a pilot study of acupuncture or acupressure and their effects on the quality of life in patients with chronic obstructive asthma.
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Issue 100
YU and colleagues, First Clinical Medical College, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150001, Heilongjiang Province, have conducted a clinical study on the effect of acupuncture on Behcet's disease.
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Issue 99
LU and ZHONG, Department of Endocrinology, Affiliated Hospital of Ganna Medical College, Jiangxi 341000, LWM421@tom.com, describe clinical observations on the treatment of diabetic foot with integrative Chinese and Western medicine.
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Issue 99
STREITBERGER and colleagues, Department of Anaesthesiology, Coordination Centre for Clinical Trials, University of Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany, konrad_streitberger@med.uni-heidelberg.de, have cond1
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Issue 99
WHITE and co-workers, Complementary Medicine Research Unit, Mail Point OPH, Royal South Hants Hospital, University of Southampton, Brintons Terrace, Southampton, UK, pjw1@soton,ac,uk, have asked the question whether the placebo nee1
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Issue 99
ZIJLSTRA and co-workers, Department of Anaesthesiology, Erasmus Medical Centre, Centre location, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, f.zijlstra@erasmusmc.nl, have reviewed (125 references) the anti-inflammatory actions of acupunctur1
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Issue 98
ALIMI and co-workers, Pain Management Unit, INSERM, U521, Villejuif, France, have conducted a randomized, single-blinded controlled trial of auricular acupuncture for cancer pain.
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Issue 98
KERR and co-workers, Rehabilitation Sciences Research Group, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Ulster at Jordanstown, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, have conducted a trial of acupuncture in the management of chronic low back pain.
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Issue 97
BRINKHAUS and colleagues, Institut fuer Sozialmedizin, Epidemiologie und Gesundheitsoekonomie, Klinikum Charite, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, benno.brinkhaus@charite.de, introduce the design of acupun1
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Issue 97
MELCHART and others, Zentrum fuer naturheilkundliche Forschung, II. Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik, TU Muenchen, Germany, similarly introduce the design of acupuncture trials in patients with migraine or tension headaches.
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Issue 95
CHEN and NICKEL, Trillium Medical Center, Acupuncture Foundation of Canada, Mississaauga, Ontario, Canada, have found that acupuncture ameliorates the symptoms in men with chronic prostate inflammation and chronic pelvic pain.
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Issue 92
ELORRIAGA and colleagues, Department of Anaesthesia, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, aelorriaga@sympatico.ca, have reviewed (16 references) the reporting of clinical details in trials of acup1
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Issue 92
GRABOWSKA et al., Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, Thames Valley University, 32-38 Uxbridge Road, London W5 2BS, UK, christine.grabowska@tvu.ac.uk, have described the provision of acupuncture in a1
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Issue 92
SAMUELS, Shoresh Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel, reviews (34 references) clinical efficacy of acupuncture for nausea. Abstract: Nausea results from stimulation of the Chemoreceptor Trigger Zone (CTZ) and the Vomiting Centre in the brain. Conventi1
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Issue 91
LACEY and co-workers, West Chester University, Sturzebecker Health Sciences Center, PA 19383, USA, have reviewed (81 references) the use of acupuncture for the treatment of obesity. Abstract: The usefulness of acupuncture in obesity1
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Issue 91
NORHEIM and FOENNEBOE, National Research Centre for Alternative Medicine University of Tromsoe, Tromsoe, Norway, arne_norheim@hotmail.com, have conducted a survey of attitudes to the contri1
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Issue 91
SMITH and CROWTHER, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia, caroline.anne.smith@adelaide.edu.au, report on the placebo resp1
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Issue 88
AHADIAN, Center for Pain and Palliative Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093-0924, USA, fahadian@ucsd.edu, describes acupuncture in pain medicine as an integrated approach to the managemen1
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Issue 88
CHANG and colleagues, The Institute of East-West Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA, review (69 references) the role of acupuncture in the treatment of female infertility.
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Issue 88
POURESMAIL and IBRAHIMZADEH, Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences and Health Services, Tehran, Iran, describe the effects of acupressure and ibuprofen on the severity of primary dysmenorrhoea.
