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May 13, 2009

Obama Positive Toward Acupuncture

During a recent Q&A session of a Presidential Town Hall meeting in St. Louis, one licensed acupuncturist and massage therapist in Florissant, Mo., got to ask President Barack Obama what must certainly be one of the most important questions in the minds of all alternative health practitioners.
Read the transcript of the question and President Obama's answer, which does appear to be positive toward the inclusion of alternative therapies into health care reform. via acupuncturetoday.com

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April 30, 2009

Awareness of Alternative Therapies May Be Lacking

About 25 percent of practicing clinicians in the United States aren’t aware of two major federal government-funded clinical trials of complementary and alternative (CAM) therapies, a new survey has found.

The survey, which included 1,561 acupuncturists, naturopaths, internists and rheumatologists, also found that many clinicians aren’t fully confident in their ability to interpret research results.

Read more via news.health.com


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April 29, 2009

Acupuncture for Pain Management

The research in many prestigious medical journals and studies by medical institutions like the Mayo Clinic and Harvard University is rapidly accumulating evidence that acupuncture can be quite effective for certain medical conditions," says Kim, "especially for pain conditions like fibromyalgia, low-back pain and headaches." These conditions can be treated by acupuncture alone, or by acupuncture in combination with standard treatments.
Read more on what Dr Charles Kim, a physician and certified acupuncturist and the director of medical acupuncture in the Department of Anesthesiology at Mount Sinai has to say via nydailynews.com

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April 16, 2009

Acupuncture: go with flow

Part of the philosophy of traditional ­Chinese methods of healing, such as acupuncture, is to keep the whole body in balance, so such a ­soothing atmosphere is important, says Fluhart, who has been an acupuncturist for more than a decade and has been in the current location for about a year. To practice the craft, acupuncturists must attend an accredited school and complete 3,000 to 4,000 service hours.
Read more about acupuncture and how it works via kentucky.com


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