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Research Updates: acupuncture
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Issue 75
SZE and colleagues, Department of Medicine, Shatin Hospital, Hong Kong, fkhsze@hotmail.com, carried out a prospective, randomized, controlled clinical trial to examine whether acupuncture
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Issue 73
WASHIO and colleagues, Department of Preventive Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Japan evaluated the effects of acupuncture therapy on low back pain and/or knee pain
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Issue 71
MACPHERSON and colleagues, Foundation for Traditional Chinese Medicine, York YO24 4EY, Medical Care Research Unit, University of Sheffield, and Sheffield Health Economics Group, School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffi1
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Issue 68
KALAUOKALANI and colleagues, Department of Anesthesiology, Washington State University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA, investigated the variability in diagnosis and treatment patterns
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Issue 68
SHANG, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30303-3033, USA, cshang9@yahoo.com, reviewed (90 references) evidence and theories on cellular growth control mechan1
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Issue 67
KERR and colleagues, Rehabilitation Sciences Research Group, School of Health Sciences, University of Ulster, Jordanstown, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, have studied the use of acupuncture in physiotherapy .
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Issue 67
MATSUMOTO and TERASAWA, Department of Geriatric Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Meiji University of Oriental Medicine, Japan examined the effect of acupuncture and moxibustion on the quality of life
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Issue 66
JOHANSSON and colleagues, Department of Neurology, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden investigated the effects of acupuncture and transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) on functional outcome an1
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Issue 66
PHILLIPS and SKELTON, Department of Administrative and Clinical Nursing, College of Nursing, University of South Carolina, USA aimed to explore sleep quality in HIV disease, test the 1
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Issue 62
SPROTT and colleagues, Rheumaklinik und Institut fur Physikalische Medizin, Universitatsspital Zurich, Switzerland. ruzsph@ruz.unizh.ch investigated microcirculatory changes over the
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Issue 61
Beal and Nield-Anderson, Yale University School of Nursing, New Haven, CT, USA investigated acupuncture for symptom relief in HIV-positive adults .
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Issue 61
FINK, KUNSEBECK and WIPPERMANN, Abteilung Physikalische Medizin und Rehabilitation Med. Hochschule Hannover, Hannover, Germany examined the effectiveness of needle acupuncture in reducing the symptoms of
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Issue 58
EZZO and colleagues, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Kernan Hospital Mansion, 220 Kernan Drive, Baltimore, MD 21207-6697, USA reviewed the effectiveness of acupuncture for the treatment of chronic pain.
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Issue 55
EICH and colleagues, Klinik fur Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, am Evangelischen Krankenhaus Gelsenkirchen Universitatsklinik der Ruhr-Universitat Bochum studied the effects of acupuncture for patients with minor depression and generalized anxiety.
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Issue 55
LEE, Department of Anaesthesia, National University Hospital, Singapore. analeetl@nus.edu.sg reviewed the literature (35 references) to assess whether acupuncture is an effective treatment for chronic pain.<b1
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Issue 55
KEMPER and colleagues, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, and the Center for Holistic Pediatric Education and Research, Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115 USA. kemper_k@al.tch.ha1
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Issue 55
PARK, WHITE and ERNST, Department of Complementary Medicine, School of Postgraduate Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Exeter, UK. J.B. Park@exeter.ac.uk summarized and critically re1
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Issue 51
CROKE and BOURNE, Institute for Esogetic Colorpuncture and Energy Emission Analysis (IECEEA), Boulder, Colorado 80302 USA review recent research conducted in Europe evaluating the efficacy of 1
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Issue 51
COCILOVO, Acupuncture Clinic of Prescott, AZ 86305 USA. cocilovo@futureone.com writes that light therapy has a long history dating from ancient Egypt to the contemporary treatment of seasonal affective disorder (SAD)1
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Issue 51
WALTON-HADLOCK, Parkinsons Recovery Project, Santa Cruz, California 95060 USA discusses the hypothesis based upon an acupuncture channel theory regarding the cause of Parkinsons disease (PD) .