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.”

PAIN MEDICINE NEWS: Acupuncture can help reduce the risk for coronary heart disease (CHD) in patients with fibromyalgia, a new study suggests.

A study led by Indiana University School of Medicine researchers, and published online March 16 in the journal Stem Cells, provide the most comprehensive picture yet of how electroacupuncture stimulates the brain to facilitate the release of stem cells and adds new insight relating to the cells’ healing properties.

“In my experience, acupuncture works reasonably well when treating chemo-related pain, such as chemotherapy-induced neuropathy,” Wiedong Lu, MB, MPH, PhD, lead oncology acupuncturist at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute said.

Research indicates that “real” acupuncture rewires the brain to produce long-term improvement, while “sham” acupuncture may produce temporary results by tapping into the placebo circuitry in the brain.

A study published Monday in the medical journal JAMA Internal Medicine said acupuncture may be helpful in reducing the frequency of migraines and preventing

A new report from an international team of researchers discovered that acupuncture may actually boost the effectiveness of standard medical care for treating chronic pain and depression. The research challenges previous attitudes which held that the practice’s results were simply due to a placebo effect.

The crying of babies with colic may be reduced if they are treated with acupuncture, according to research from Sweden which studied 147 babies aged two to eight weeks. Although the study findings were not statistically significant, Dr Mike Cummings, medical director...

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: Study shows that electro-acupuncture actually produced a better overall sleep quality than prescription medication, decreased the amount of time it takes to fall asleep, and increased the amount of the time in bed patients actually slept.

Consumer Reports: An analysis of 29 studies with a total of 17,922 participants with back and neck pain, osteoarthritis, chronic headache and shoulder pain found that people with those conditions experienced significantly more relief with acupuncture than those who had no treatment.

The oft quoted and shared JAMA article “has the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) up in arms over “stretching the word ‘medical’” in their conclusions about the role of complementary medicine in treating chronic pain conditions.”