The quality of acupuncture needles is high, but should still be universally improved to avoid potential problems, such as pain and skin reactions, finds research published online in Acupuncture in ...

What if you could get the benefits of acupuncture, a centuries-old healing modality rooted in Chinese medicine, without having dozens of scary needles poking into your body? And maybe even become so ...

The quality of needles used in acupuncture worldwide is high but needs to be universally improved to increase safety and avoid potential problems such as pain and allergic reactions, researchers have ...

This new system lets you wirelessly link to a readout showing how much electrical activity the needles are stimulating in a patient’s muscles. Devotees of acupuncture say the alternative therapy can ...

Acupuncture treatment is supposed to help heal numerous conditions including cancer, depression, and more. Well, when it comes to addiction treatment, poking with needles seems to provide pretty mixed ...

A sham form of acupuncture using toothpicks that don’t penetrate the skin works as well as traditional needle acupuncture for relieving back pain, researchers report in the May 11 Archives of Internal ...

For almost 30 years Houma resident Jack Verret has been receiving acupuncture, an alternative-medical treatment where needles are inserted at specific points along the body. Verret was injured ...

When doctors examined an X-ray image of the knees of a woman experiencing severe joint pain, they found a gold mine: hundreds of tiny gold acupuncture needles left in her tissue. The 65-year-old South ...

The debut of Straight Outta Compton has unleashed a new wave of speculation into NWA rapper Eazy-E’s 1995 death from complications of AIDS. Perhaps inevitable, theories have proliferated. The latest ...