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Acupuncture is comparable to drug treatment for reducing urinary frequency in patients with overactive bladder ...

Acupuncture in addition to usual care may improve post-surgical dry eye syndrome, Korean researchers report ...

A randomised prospective controlled clinical study examined the effect of luteal-phase acupuncture on the outcome of in vitro fertilisation/intracytoplasmic sperm injection.

Acupuncture outperforms conventional treatment for chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN), reports an Iranian research team ...

A response to a study debunking acupuncture for back pain ... 

Although many Asian practitioners are happy to specialise as acupuncturists, and therefore do not prescribe herbs, there has been a tendency in the west to feel that acupuncture alone is somehow inadequate. In the treatment of seasonal allergic rhinitis at least, this does not seem to be the case. In a randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trial, 65 patients with seasonal allergic rhinitis re ...

Electro-acupuncture may improve symptoms of anxiety and depression in patients with polycystic ovarian syndrome ...

Preliminary Chinese research suggests that combining acupuncture with metformin treatment may be more effective than metformin alone for improving weight loss and insulin sensitivity in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus ...

A study of the effect of acupuncture on sperm quality in men suffering infertility of unknown cause, found that after twice weekly treatment for five weeks, there were fewer structural sperm defects (acrosome position and shape, nuclear shape, axonemal pattern and shape, and accessory fibres of sperm organelles) and an increase in the number of normal sperm ejaculated. Other sperm abnormalities su ...

Electro-acupuncture should be recommended as a non-pharmacological treatment for pain reduction in painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy, according to the authors of a study carried out in Korea ...