Cheng Huang1*, Jeffrey P Koplan2, Jing Liu3, Changwei Li4, Jessica Silvaggio5, Amanda K MacGurn6, Tao Zhang7, Michael P Erikson8 and Pam Redmon2 1Department of Global Health, George Washington University, USA 2Global Health Institute, Emory University, USA 3School of Criminal Justice, State University of New York at Albany, USA 4Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University, USA 5Department of ...

BACKGROUND Despite weak evidence, the use of acupuncture has increased in infantile colic. The only three randomized trials conducted evaluated standardized minimal acupuncture in one single point. Two showed effect but one did not so further research is necessary. The aims of the study are 1) to test if results in earlier trials conducted in private acupuncture clinics can be repeated at Child...

BACKGROUND Studies on the relationship between de qi intensity and activity changes in the autonomic nervous system (ANS) are scarce. This study investigates the physiological responses associated with de qi. The relationship between de qi intensity and such responses was determined. METHOD This was a single-blinded, randomised, placebo-controlled trial. A total of 36 subjects (19 men, 17 wom...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the clinical effects of laser acupuncture therapy for temporomandibular disorders (TMD) after ineffective previous treatments. METHODS A retrospective observational study was conducted in 29 treatment-resistant TMD patients (25 women, 4 men; age range, 17-67 years). Subjects were treated 3 times per week for 4 weeks with the Handylaser Trion (GaAlAs laser diode, 810 n...

Purpose. Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) is a common and dose-limiting side effect of cytostatic drugs. Since there are no proven therapeutic procedures against CIPN, we were interested to define the role of electroacupuncture (EA) from which preliminary data showed promising results. Methods. In a randomized trial with a group sequential adaptive design in patients with CIPN,...

Human and animal studies suggest that acupuncture produces many beneficial effects through the central nervous system. However, the neural substrates of acupuncture actions are not completely clear to date. fMRI studies at Hegu (LI4) and Zusanli (ST36) indicated that the limbic system may play an important role for acupuncture effects. To test if this finding applies to other major classical ac...

X iv :1 31 0. 80 40 v1 [ cs .S I] 3 0 O ct 2 01 3 Homophyly and Randomness Resist Cascading Failure in Networks Angsheng Li1, Wei Zhang1,2 Yicheng Pan1,3, Xuechen Li4 1State Key Laboratory of Computer Science Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. R. China 2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. R. China 3State Key Laboratory of Information Security Institute of Informati...

DISEASE UNIVERSE: VISUALISATION OF POPULATION-WIDE DISEASE-WIDE ASSOCIATIONS Max Moldovan1,2, Ruslan Enikeev3, Shabbir Syed-Abdul4, Phung Anh Nguyen4,5, Yo-Cheng Chang4 and Yu-Chuan Li4 1 Australian Institute of Health Innovation, University of New South Wales, Level 1 AGSM Building, Sydney NSW 2052, Australia; 2 School of Population Health, South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute ...