Antidepressants Don’t Work?

Source: Huffington Post Here’s some depressing recent medical news: Antidepressants don’t work. What’s even more depressing is that the pharmaceutical industry and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have deliberately deceived us into believing that they DO work....

Acupuncture helps NBA stars

Hurting? If a few needles can help Hill, they can help me PHOENIX — The needles are about two inches long. The man is grinning like the Cheshire cat as he pushes them into the muscle surrounding my right shoulder, then sticks them into various points around my ankles...

The end of antibiotics?

Source: Guardian.co.uk Just 65 years ago, David Livermore’s paternal grandmother died following an operation to remove her appendix. It didn’t go well, but it was not the surgery that killed her. She succumbed to a series of infections that the pre-penicillin...

Acupuncture Alleviates Pain in Mice

This may seem a bit off-track, but animal studies in acupuncture are interesting because they rule out the placebo effect (feeling better due to simple suggestion or expectation). From the Guardian: Ever since Chinese doctors first poked their patients with sharp...