Needles may not seem like the best tool for treating stress, but acupuncture could be tapping into basic biological systems that keep stress under control. Reporting in the Journal of Endocrinology, ...

Community oncology study shows the feasibility of offering acupuncture and massage to minority patients traditionally lacking ...

Lower back pain is the leading cause of disability worldwide, yet most treatments offer limited relief. One of the most divisive is acupuncture – recommended in US guidelines for lower back pain but ...

Acupuncture may improve both perceived and objectively measured cognitive difficulties in breast cancer survivors, a ...

The clinical trial, referred to as BackInAction, was funded by the National Institutes of Health and enrolled 800 participants nationwide with self-report pain-related disability assessments. A third ...

With nearly a quarter of all adults experiencing chronic back pain, many Americans are now seeking alternatives to opioids for meaningful relief. A recent study, BackInAction, shows that manual ...

WASHINGTON -- Four-year-old Eliza Brady held still as Dr. Yuan-Chi Lin slowly stuck hair-thin needles into her legs. After six months of these acupuncture treatments, the painful intestinal ...

Researchers have discovered that acupuncture analgesia may active the sympathetic nervous system for pain suffers, according to News-Medical. The study involved 36 healthy adults who exercised to ...

A recent British study found people with depression may benefit as much from acupuncture as they do from counseling. University of York researchers studied 755 moderately or severely depressed people ...

Kieran O'Sullivan receives funding from the EU (Erasmus+) and the Irish Government (Research Ireland) for research on low back pain. He also receives honoraria and expenses for speaking about low back ...