CANCER NETWORK: A summary of  the current evidence regarding the use of acupuncture for pain management in cancer patients. It includes a description of how acupuncture is thought to work and what the intervention entails, data on acupuncture for managing pain

American Academy of Family Physicians: A randomized clinical trial of cancer survivors showed that 8 weeks of either ACUPUNCTURE or cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia decreased the severity of insomnia among cancer survivors.

BMC NEUROLOGY: This partially double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial will examine the efficacy of acupuncture as a treatment for diabetic peripheral neuropathy in individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus via nerve conduction studies

Research published in the European Journal of Integrative Medicine suggests that acupuncture could help people who experience dental anxiety.

Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology: Researchers from Germany’s Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin studied 221 women with severe period pain. In the randomized pragmatic trial, 58% of those that were taught to perform acupressure had reduced period pain, compared to 25 percent of women who weren’t practicing acupressure.

Data released this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show emergency room visits for suspected opioid overdoses increased by 30 percent between July 2016 and September 2017.

According to a paper published in the Science Translational Medicine journal, the drug therapy TSG12 is more effective than existing asthma medication and could see more applications of the traditional Chinese medicine in research.

NEUROLOGY ADVISOR: Study shows patients with tension-type headaches experienced benefits from acupuncture and stretching, especially in combination with pressure pain threshold (PPT) physiotherapy hands-on techniques.

UroToday: Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS) is a common condition affecting men of all ages. Acupuncture may be an effective treatment option for CP/CPPS, but evidence is limited. We propose to evaluate the effectiveness of acupuncture in a rigorously conducted trial.

US NEWS AND WORLD REPORT: Some common breast cancer medications can trigger joint pain, but new research suggests acupuncture may ease that side effect.

New research describes how acupuncture may achieve local pain-relieving effects in people with carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) while also showing effects of the technique in the brain’s pain centers. The study, funded in part by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health and conducted by a multicenter team of scientists at

ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE: A randomized trials shows eight weeks of electro-acupuncture increased complete spontaneous bowel movements and is safe for the treatment of chronic severe functional constipation.

Researchers from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) in New York City and MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, examined if ACUPUNCTURE could help manage symptom burden of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HCT) in patients with multiple myeloma.

“Placebo acupuncture can ease short-term pain but the real thing might help to reverse the underlying pathology of a disease.” “There are now several trials showing that even when patients in acupuncture and placebo groups report similar drops in pain, the physical effects of treatment can be very different”

WebMD: Non-drug approaches that may work include acupuncture and electrotherapy, review finds.

One of the new studies was approved for $5.7 million to focus on a Medicaid payer strategy that expands access to nondrug strategies for treating low back pain, including complementary medical approaches such as acupuncture, while restricting access to opioids. 

Acupuncture received mixed reviews in 2 new studies — 1 focusing on stress incontinence and the other on polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)-related infertility. The research was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

FROM THE NIH: Recent preliminary research with mice suggests that ingesting even a low dose of caffeine may interfere with the analgesic effects of acupuncture in acute and chronic pain models.

A study published in Supportive Care in Cancer shows that acupuncture may be a potential adjunct treatment option for cancer-related fatigue (CRF) in patients with lung cancer receiving palliative care.

Researchers in Australia and New Zealand have found that acupuncture can significantly reduce the severity and duration of period pain.

Huffington Post: Small study shows acupuncture to be an effective weight loss tool compared to sham acupuncture.

“Whether acupuncture can really help treat certain health conditions is controversial, and now two new studies on the ancient practice have reached mixed conclusions.”

“The results of this observational pilot study suggest that acupressure/acupuncture is a feasible intervention for children with ASD that merits rigorous evaluation through a randomized controlled trial.”

Auburn scientist discovers microstructure of primo-vascular system, revealing possible foundation of how acupuncture works.

CONSUMER REPORTS: The researchers found that electroacupuncture and acupressure helped ease nausea and vomiting in breast cancer patients when used alongside conventional anti-nausea drugs during chemo.

POPULAR SCIENCE: Does medicine have a bias against acupuncture?

Study published in the journal BRAIN shows that acupuncture improved the outcomes for carpal tunnel syndrome by remapping the brain

A large randomized controlled, pragmatic trial involving 1445 patients with allergic asthma found that an integrative medicine approach in which acupuncture is added to routine care demonstrated improvements in both quality of life and

FIBROMYALGIA NEWS TODAY: By mapping the molecular effects of electroacupuncture in mice with fibromyalgia, a research team suggested that the molecule ASIC3 might be a suitable target for the development of treatments for pain sensitivity in fibromyalgia.

SCIENCE DAILY: “Acupuncture is tried and true, for at least certain symptoms,” said Thoru Pederson, Ph.D., Editor-in-Chief of The FASEB Journal. “Here we have a new possibility centered on a disease of massive morbidity.”