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Mao constatait le faible nombre de médecins en Chine, et au lieu d'admettre ce regrettable état de fait hérité du passé, avec pour objectif d'y remédier, il a préféré légitimer les remèdes ancestraux que les chinois pauvres utilisaient encore... faute d'avoir accès à autre chose.

It’s an elaborate placebo, and the relaxation and attention given patients is the only real “healing” going on.

Acupuncture par Lucile

Lying on a beige table in the stark orthopaedics lab at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, participant after participant endures the insertion of hair-thin needles , while five researchers, led by Professor of Neurology and Orthopaedics Helene Langevin, monitor a body of machinery.

Relationship of acupuncture points and meridians to connective tissue points.

Acupuncture has been in the news recently. A former President of South Korea had to undergo major surgery to remove an acupuncture needle that had somehow lodged in his lung. A recent study in Pain compiled a list of 95 published reports of serious complications of acupuncture including 5 deaths.

A common error to make when interpreting clinical studies is to confuse non-specific effects – those that result from the therapeutic interaction or the process of observation – with a specific effect from the treatment being studied

Acupuncture still exists in the CAM bizarro world, and has not crossed over to the real world of scientific medicine. This is because, in my opinion, acupuncture does not actually work.

Cette semaine, des précisions quant à notre visite du CERN le 9 juillet 2011, quelques petites news et 2 dossiers: "comment les éclairs se forment-ils?" et "l'acupuncture". Bonne écoute!

New study that supports the conclusion that acupunture si just placebo.