Emergency medicine is not all about life and death situations and high-tech solutions. Our study, the largest of its kind in the world, shows using acupuncture in the emergency department can relieve ...

Some see acupuncture as a safe alternative to drugs, while others argue there's no convincing evidence of clinical benefit and potential for harm. So should doctors recommend acupuncture for pain?

Joe Perales sat on a patient bed in a clinic with his eyes closed and his neck stretched to the left. On his right shoulder, just below the nape of his neck, a tiny needle - so thin it would have ...

Jackie Apuzzo is 16 weeks pregnant -- something she was beginning to think would never happen. Following nine years of unsuccessful efforts to have a baby, including failed in vitro fertilization, a ...

Dear Doctor: What do you think about acupuncture for lower back pain? What is it, and how does it work? Dear Reader: Acupuncture is a key component of traditional medicine in China, but until recently ...

Acupuncture, a treatment rooted in Chinese medicine, is gaining popularity as an alternative therapy. When a painful ski accident left Michelle Larivee with chronic neck pain, she turned to ...

If you've got a stuffy, drippy or itchy nose from allergies, figuring out which remedies help best can be tough. New guidelines from the Academy of Otolaryngology should make it easier for people and ...

Iraqi doctors faced with a shortage of drugs in a capital city hit by years of conflict have successfully used acupuncture to treat mothers during Caesarean section births. Reporting on Thursday on a ...

Seeking ways to curb the use of opioid painkillers, doctors at Baltimore’s VA Medical Center started offering a version of acupuncture to treat some veterans’ chronic pain. Two years later, the U.S.

Some see acupuncture as a safe alternative to drugs, while others argue there's no convincing evidence of clinical benefit and potential for harm. So should doctors recommend acupuncture for pain?