Tag: Acupuncture Press

Medical Research

Acupuncture For Allergies: Hey, It Cured Me

From the SF Chronicle. One of my favorite conditions to treat is allergy because it responds so well.  Always? Of course not, but the results are typically great.  My allergies disappeared, albeit after 2 courses of acupuncture (patience pays when it comes to acupuncture.)  I reported on a recent editorial in the Annals of Internal…

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Health & Fitness

Huffington Post: Acupuncture as Part of Standard Cancer Care

This article is meant to start the discussion of acupuncture as a part of cancer care.  Their results are quite confusing however.  From the article electroacupuncture clearly helps nausea and vomiting from chemotherapy in breast cancer patients.  It also suggests it can be helpful for other side effects, but isn’t specific.  It’s a start. Time…

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Medical Research

Penelope Cruz: Latest Celebrity Acupuncture Sighting

  Some photographer with a super duper zoom lens zeroed in on Penelope Cruz’ ear and spotted the gold acupuncture seeds.  This particular placement is probably for stress.  It would doubtless be stressful to be under this kind of press scrutiny…    

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Health & Fitness

Katie Couric Discusses Acupuncture

And Katie Couric gets a needle too!  Very articulate acupuncturist with a lovely British accent giving a succinct summary and explanation.  A bonus picture of my favorite, Charlotte, from “Sex in the City” getting acupuncture for fertility. Click on Katie’s photo for the video, runs about 5 minutes.        

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Ethics in Medicine

Huffington Post: What Acupuncture Can Teach Us About Science

I came across this article from last October from the Huffington Post.  It is referencing the comprehensive article concluding that acupuncture works for pain. Blog discussion here. In the Huffington Post a professor from Saybrook University discusses the quandary of acupuncture and that it has been shown to work in spite of a comprehensive understanding…

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Health & Fitness

Access Hollywood: Acupuncture Treatment Video

  For those interested in celebrities (Mariah Carey, Gwyneth Paltrow and JLo are mentioned) and what a treatment is like.  Pretty accurate, minus the models… Click on photo to watch  

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