Background: Stroke is a major cause of disability and death in the Western world. Studies have shown a direct relationship between specific mental and motor activity and changes in cerebral blood flow. Acupuncture is often...
Lees meer84-year old Tu Youyou becomes the first Chinese woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize for her discovery of artemisinin, the malaria drug, from a Chinese herb sweet wormword (Artemisia annua). Meer nieuwsberichten: The Nobel Prize...
Lees meerAn increasing body of evidence supports the use of acupuncture for the control of cancer-related symptoms. Here we summarize the results of researched for the efficacy and safety of acupuncture for some of cancer symptoms...
Lees meerA study to evaluate the effect pf acupuncture in reducing the intensity of acute dental pain in pre-dental care in 120 patients waiting for emergency dental care was conducted at the After-Hours Emergency Dental Clinic,...
Lees meerEvidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines American College of Chest Physicians In cancer patients experiencing nausea and vomiting from chemotherapy or radiotherapy, does acupuncture as an adjunct treatment option reduce the symptoms? After...
Lees meerA study at RMIT University in Australia evaluated the efficacy and safety of manual acupuncture for frequent migraine. Fifty frequent migraineurs were randomly allocated to receive 16 sessions of either real acupuncture (n=26) or sham acupuncture...
Lees meerPurpose: Evaluate research evidence on the efficacy of acupuncture in dry eye syndrome patients. Methods: Pubmed, Ovid, Cochrane libraries, CNKI, Wanfang, and CQVIP databases were searched. Outcomes including tear break-up time, Schirmer I test (SIT, a diagnostic...
Lees meerPatients and treatments: A randomized double blind sham control clinical trial was designed to evaluate the effect of acupuncture for Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). A total of 60 IBS patients assigned to three separated groups....
Lees meerIn a double-dummy, single-blinded, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial, 180 patients with primary insomnia were randomly assigned to acupuncture plus placebo; estazolam (a sleep drug) plus sham acupuncture; or sham acupuncture plus placebo. The outcome was measured...
Lees meerResearchers at the Indiana University in United States found that acupuncture may be a feasible treatment option for breast cancer survivors with sleep disturbances and hot flashes. Ten breast cancer survivors (mean age 53 years, with an average...
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