Recent CAM Research
Recent Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research Synopses
Our monthly research synopses are part of our effort to share current complementary and alternative medicine research with practitioners and the general public. For the most part we try to choose studies which have direct clinical implications for practitioners and are relevant to the publics understanding of our medicine.
The research studies highlighted are drawn from a number of sources and are only a snapshot of what is available in medical journals worldwide. Our research synopses are included in our practitioner email newsletter which has open subscriptions (archives are also available).
In addition to our research synopses, our newsletter includes articles and other news from our premium practitioner members (open to all CAM practitioners).
Our most recent research synopses are below:
Acupuncture Research and News Feeds
- Complementary Acupuncture Treatment Increases Cerebral Metabolism in Patients with Parkinson's Disease.
- Iatrogenic Bullae Following Cupping Therapy.
- Effect of Acupuncture on Induction of Labor.
- Effects of Scalp Acupuncture Versus Upper and Lower Limb Acupuncture on Signal Activation of Blood Oxygen Level Dependent (BOLD) fMRI of the Brain and Somatosensory Cortex.
- Acupuncture for Treatment of Insomnia: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials.
- Acupuncture Anesthesia for Complicated Dental Extractions in Patients with Lidocaine Allergy.
- The Efficacy of Acupuncture in Treating Urge and Mixed Incontinence in Women: A Pilot Study.
- Alternative methods of conservative treatment of idiopathic scoliosis.
- Dermatitis artefacta: keloids and foreign body granuloma due to overvalued ideation of acupuncture.
- Distinct brain networks for time-varied characteristics of acupuncture.
- Taking integrative healthcare education to the community through lifelong learning.
- Commentary on the cochrane review of acupuncture for tension-type headache.
Herbal Medicine Research and News Feeds
- Unscheduled bleeding in combined oral contraceptive users: focus on extended-cycle and continuous-use regimens.
- Four new fatty acid esters from the Feces of Trogopterus xanthipes.
- [Wuling Capsule for climacteric patients with depression and anxiety state: a randomized, positive parallel controlled trial.]
- How useful is traditional herbal medicine for pulmonary fibrosis?
- [Clinical observation on scalp point injection to improve the cerebral microcirculation for children of early cerebral palsy]
- The augmented anti-tumor effects of Antrodia camphorata co-fermented with Chinese medicinal herb in human hepatoma cells.
- Effect of Chinese drugs for supplementing Qi, nourishing Yin and activating blood circulation on myocardial perfusion in patients with acute myocardial infarction after revascularization.
- New understanding of the basic theory of traditional Chinese medicine.
- Prescription pattern of traditional Chinese medicine for climacteric women in Taiwan.
- Perioperative medication management: general principles and practical applications.
- [China coronary secondary prevention study (CCSPS)]
- [Therapeutic effects of emodin on acute cholestatic hepatitis and mechanism thereof: experiment with rats]