NCI Cancer Bulletin for June 10, 2008 - National Cancer Institute “Acupuncture appears to be a promising treatment for these patients, and more research is warranted,” said Dr. David Pfister of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, who discussed the results at ASCO. Conventional treatments have limited success in helping patients following neck dissections, he noted, and “there is plenty of room for improvement.”

Tue Oct 16, 2007 5:35pm EDT - By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The use of acupuncture before and during surgery reduces patients’ post-operative pain as well as the need for pain-killing medication, researchers said on Tuesday.

“Relevance to Marriage & Family Therapy One of the great contributions of Chinese medicine is the ability to link physical and mental diseases, whereby it is often found that a physical disease has a mental cause, and a mental disease a physical cause (Mann, 1971, p. 90 Mann, F. (1971). Acupuncture, cure of many diseases. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann.). In either case they may be treated with acupuncture. Therefore psychotherapy and Acupuncture may work hand in hand to cure both physical and
mental illness.

“The Center for Disease Control reported in 2004 that 36% of all americans used alternative therapy before 2002 and that 50% received CAM in their lifetime (Source: Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use Among Adults: United States, 2002, Center
for Disease Control, May 27, 2004). Many feel the combination of traditional medicine with CAM therapies has increased healing capabilities. When these therapies are used to replace conventional medicine, they are termed “alternative.” When the
treatments are used with standard medical practice, they are termed “complementary.”

20 Aug 2005 - Fibromyalgia patients treated with six sessions of acupuncture experienced significant symptomatic improvement compared to a group given simulated acupuncture sessions according to a new Mayo Clinic study.

February 23, 1999 Web posted at: 11:16 p.m. EST (0416 GMT) LOS ANGELES (CNN) — At the University of California-Los Angeles School of Medicine, doctors are preparing to use a different kind of needle — an acupuncture needle.