Tag: acupuncture

Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews of Acupuncture
No surprise - there is precious little evidence that acupuncture does anything.

Medicare and Alternative Medicine
Medicare is paying for nonsense.

Aromatase inhibitors and acupuncture in breast cancer: Spinning a negative study, four years later
Four years ago, I wrote about an essentially negative study looking at whether acupuncture could alleviate joint pain caused by aromatase inhibitors, a common treatment for estrogen-sensitive breast cancer. The study's back, and it doesn't look any more positive.

Some Sepsis Stuff
Sepsis interventions. Some don't work and some don't work.

Alternative Reproduction?
Are there effective forms of SCAMs for birth control or reproduction? Of course not.

But Is It Real?
Why we need more science in medicine.

Zeno’s Paradox
An elderly German experiments with a new form of acupuncture. Time says acupuncture is entering the mainstream. Acupuncture has been trying to enter for decades. Still not close.