- 20th August 2010
Videocast: Claudia Witt on acupuncture trials in Germany
Dr Claudia Witt spoke in early August at the US based National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Her subject was ‘the acupuncture trials from Germany – What do they tell us about efficacy, effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and safety?’ The whole lecture can be seen as a videocast here. Dr. Witt is currently the Vice Director,... - 5th July 2010
British Conference of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
Title: British Conference of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Location: Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey Link out: Click here Description: Hosted by the British Acupuncture Council, this annual event is now the largest of its kind in the UK. The conference welcomes all practitioners trained in TCM, Five element and western Medical Acupuncture as well... - 5th May 2010
Highlight – Acupunture is a cost effective intervention for breech presentation in pregnancy
This paper adds to our current knowledge that acupuncture techniques can be a useful method for breech version. In this study acupuncture interventions, including moxibustion were compared against a ‘watch and wait’ approach to women with a foetal breech presentation at 33 weeks gestation. Acupuncture was shown to be more effective and less costly- even... - 6th April 2010
Herbalists to be registered, but not yet regulated
The UK Health Secretary has announced proposals to improve safeguards for people using herbal medicines, including traditional Chinese medicine, with acupuncture highly likely to follow shortly. Practitioners in the United Kingdom who supply unlicensed herbal products, including Chinese medicines, will have to register with the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council. The announcement is the result... - 26th November 2009
China Blog
The Foundation for Integrated Health have sent a party of doctors off to China for a fortnight to explore integrated medicine as practised there. You can follow them on Michael Dooley’s blog: A China Diary or follow the RRS Feed. - 20th November 2009
Acupuncture Research update
The latest issue of Acupuncture Research Today is now available at http://acupuncture.researchtoday.net/ This is a free online collation of the latest abstracts on acupunture from international journals. Highlights include a small RCT on acupuncture treatments for menopausal symptoms. - 4th September 2009
Acupunture in Medicine subscription
CAMLIS has a new electronic subscription to the BMJ journal: Acupunture in Medicine. We have full access to the archive back to volume 1 in 1982. You can access it from the library or by following this link and inputting the required username and password: http://aim.bmj.com/archive/ You can subscribe to the table of contents by...
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