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If you look for the truth outside yourself, it gets farther and farther away.
- Tung Shan
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters in the
end.
- Ursula K. LeGuin
Articles
Acupuncturists Team Up to Provide Relief in Haiti
Pathways to Wellness has partnered with Acupuncturists Without Borders (AWB) to coordinate efforts to make acupuncture available for survivors, rescue workers and peace-keepers
Acupuncture Scores Home Run with SF Giants
Members of San Francisco Giants baseball team benefit from acupuncture
New scientific breakthrough proves why acupuncture works
New groundbreaking research shows that the insertion of an acupuncture needle into the skin disrupts the branching point of nerves called C fibres. These C fibres transmit low-grade sensory information over very long distances...
Acupuncture boosts effects of painkillers, natural or prescription
[LA Times] Acupuncture may sensitize the brain's opioid receptors to the body's analgesic chemicals, as well as to medication, allowing the two means of pain relief to complement one another
Thousands Line Up for Promise of Free Health Care
[NY Times] Remote Area Medical, a non-profit group, provides dental, medical, and vision services, including acupuncture
Another First at the Olympics
Acupuncture Offered at the Beijing Olympics
Of Pins, Needles, and Pain Relief
Acupuncture Goes Mainstream in the US in 1971
Following the Script: How Drug Reps... Influence Doctors
"Pharmaceutical companies spend billions of dollars annually to ensure that physicians most susceptible to marketing prescribe the most expensive, most promoted drugs to the most people possible..."
Pentagon Researches Alternative Treatments
The Pentagon is seeking new ways to treat troops suffering from combat stress or brain damage by researching such alternative methods as acupuncture, meditation, yoga and the use of animals as therapy, military officials said
Acupuncturists Team Up to Provide Relief in Haiti
Pathways to Wellness has partnered with Acupuncturists Without Borders (AWB) to coordinate efforts to make acupuncture available for survivors, rescue workers and peace-keepers
Acupuncture Scores Home Run with SF Giants
Members of San Francisco Giants baseball team benefit from acupuncture
New scientific breakthrough proves why acupuncture works
New groundbreaking research shows that the insertion of an acupuncture needle into the skin disrupts the branching point of nerves called C fibres. These C fibres transmit low-grade sensory information over very long distances...
Acupuncture boosts effects of painkillers, natural or prescription
[LA Times] Acupuncture may sensitize the brain's opioid receptors to the body's analgesic chemicals, as well as to medication, allowing the two means of pain relief to complement one another
Thousands Line Up for Promise of Free Health Care
[NY Times] Remote Area Medical, a non-profit group, provides dental, medical, and vision services, including acupuncture
Another First at the Olympics
Acupuncture Offered at the Beijing Olympics
Of Pins, Needles, and Pain Relief
Acupuncture Goes Mainstream in the US in 1971
Following the Script: How Drug Reps... Influence Doctors
"Pharmaceutical companies spend billions of dollars annually to ensure that physicians most susceptible to marketing prescribe the most expensive, most promoted drugs to the most people possible..."
Pentagon Researches Alternative Treatments
The Pentagon is seeking new ways to treat troops suffering from combat stress or brain damage by researching such alternative methods as acupuncture, meditation, yoga and the use of animals as therapy, military officials said
Research
ClinicalTrials.gov
Current federally and privately supported clinical research on acupuncture
PubMed
Recent studies conducted on Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine
Acupuncture Eases Breast Cancer Treatment Side Effects
Ancient therapy bested antidepressant bested antidepressant for relieving hot flashes in study
Acupuncture For Tension-Type Headache
Updated 2009 Cochrane Library meta-analysis concluding that acupuncture is a valuable non-pharmacological tool for treating tension headaches
How Does Moxibustion Work Scientifically?
Meridians are like optical fibers that transmit infrared radiation.
Acupuncture May Ease Chronic Back Pain
Acupuncture helps relieve chronic back pain better than standard care such as medications or physical therapy, according to a new study
How Acupuncture Affects the Brain
This new study, which was published in Brain Research, indicates that acupuncture has a significant impact on specific neural structures
Links
Acufinder
Acupuncture Referral Service
Environmental Working Group
A 501(3)(c) non-profit organization that conducts research and provides public information to protect public health and the environment
AOM Day
Increasing the progress, promise, and benefits of Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine
Acupuncturists Without Borders
A 501(3)(c) non-profit that provides immediate disaster relief and recovery to communities that are in crisis resulting from disaster or human conflict