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<title>Integrative Medicine Use Up, but Outcomes Still Uncertain</title>
<link>http://www.medsurfnews.com/contents/en/7081/display/integrative-medicine-use-up-but-outcomes-still-uncertain.aspx</link>
<description><![CDATA[In a survey of US medical centers using integrative medicine, 75% reported success using integrative practices to treat chronic pain, with more than half reporting positive results in the areas of gastrointestinal conditions, depression, anxiety, cancer, and chronic stress.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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<title>Laser acupuncture may help bedwetters</title>
<link>http://www.medsurfnews.com/contents/en/6374/display/laser-acupuncture-may-help-bedwetters.aspx</link>
<description><![CDATA[Acupuncture using a laser beam might help young bedwetters break the nighttime habit, according to a new study from Turkey. The results show that laser acupuncture therapy which is noninvasive, painless, short-term therapy with low cost can be considered as an alternative therapy for patients with (bedwetting). But outside researchers were more skeptical that the procedure was any better than other methods currently used to treat bedwetters, which include behavioral therapy and medications that make the body produce less urine.


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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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<title>Acupuncture is equally effective with simulated needles</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Simulated acupuncture - sometimes referred to as placebo - is just as beneficial as real acupuncture for treating nausea in cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy, according to a study from Karolinska Institutet and Linköping University in Sweden. Patients, who received only standard care including medications for nausea, felt significant more nausea than patients in both the acupuncture groups. "The beneficial effects seem not to come from the traditional acupuncture method, but probably from the patients' positive expectations and the extra care that the treatment entails," reserchers said. The study study, which is published in the scientific journal PLoS ONE, included 215 patients from this group, were blindly assigned traditional or simulated acupuncture. The former group (109 patients) had needles inserted into their skin to stimulate certain points, and the latter (106 patients) had blunt telescopic placebo needles merely pressed against the skin. The acupuncture patients were then compared with 62 patients who had only received the standard care regime with medications for nausea and no acupuncture.  The results show that the patients who had received genuine or simulated acupuncture felt much less nauseous than those who had received standard care only. Of the patients who had had some form of acupuncture, only 37 felt nausea and seven per cent vomited, compared with 63 per cent and 15 per cent of the standard care group. However, no differences were observed between the two acupuncture groups, despite the fact that the placebo needle was applied to the skin for a total of only two minutes during the entire five-week treatment period.
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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<title>WHO to define information standards for traditional medicine</title>
<link>http://www.medsurfnews.com/contents/en/6098/display/who-to-define-information-standards-for-traditional-medicine.aspx</link>
<description><![CDATA[WHO will develop, for the first time, a classification of traditional medicine, paving the way for the objective evaluation of its benefits. 
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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<title>Calls for NHS to scrap homeopathy</title>
<link>http://www.medsurfnews.com/contents/en/5483/display/calls-for-nhs-to-scrap-homeopathy.aspx</link>
<description><![CDATA[The NHS should stop funding homeopathy and it should no longer be marketed as a medicine in pharmacies, doctors say.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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<title>Acupuncture May Relieve Menstrual Cramps</title>
<link>http://www.medsurfnews.com/contents/en/4856/display/acupuncture-may-relieve-menstrual-cramps.aspx</link>
<description><![CDATA[Acupuncture may help relieve menstrual cramps, which affect up to half of all young women, a systematic literature review has found. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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<title>Are We Putting the Cart Before the Horse?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The guideline addresses the problem of prescribing opiates alone as a sedative, although the literature2-3 suggests that benzodiazepines are better. It also addresses the value of including patients in the decision-making process. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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<title>Study: Humidifiers may help fight flu</title>
<link>http://www.medsurfnews.com/contents/en/3218/display/study-humidifiers-may-help-fight-flu.aspx</link>
<description><![CDATA[The cold, dry air of winter can give you chapped lips, cracked hands, and now, a study suggests, a better chance of getting the flu. A new analysis of previous data shows that in low-humidity conditions, the influenza virus is more likely survive, possibly giving it a better shot at spreading from person to person and making its way to you.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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<title>There Is No Evidence That . . . </title>
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<description><![CDATA[In March 2008, National Public Radio featured a story about a "medical breakthrough." It focused on a girl from the United States with congenital bilateral optic nerve hypoplasia who went to China to receive experimental intravenous injections of embryonic umbilical cord stem cells for a cost of more than $20 000. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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<title>Acupuncture in Low Back Pain</title>
<link>http://www.medsurfnews.com/contents/en/747/display/acupuncture-in-low-back-pain.aspx</link>
<description><![CDATA[Even if largely used in the treatment of low back pain, acupuncture has not yet received definitive efficacy demonstrations. In England, a randomized study has been now realized with a cost-efficacy analysis on patients affected by non-specific low back pain treated with acupuncture.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 9 Mar 2007 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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