Tag: acupuncture
Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews of Acupuncture
No surprise - there is precious little evidence that acupuncture does anything.
Acupuncture For Backpain in Pregnancy – More Terrible Reporting
Another meta-analysis shows that acupuncture is nothing but an elaborate placebo, and again is misrepresented in the press.
ASCO endorses “integrative oncology” quackery for cancer pain
Last week, the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the Society for Integrative Oncology published guidelines for treating cancer pain. These guidelines endorsed quackery like reflexology and acupuncture. The infiltration of quackademic medicine continues apace in oncology.
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.
How to design high quality acupuncture trials: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Acupuncture advocates have published guidelines for "rigorous" acupuncture randomized controlled trials. While that sounds good on the surface, the devil is in the details, which reveal that the dedication to scientific rigor is perhaps not so strong.