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Article: Flash: No Needles; Acupuncture No Better Than Placebo for Hot Flashes
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- The Washington Post
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- June 20, 2006
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The search for a benign, effective alternative treatment for hot
flashes -- which has included the use of soy products, Chinese
herbs and hypnosis -- has hit another roadblock.
A new study of acupuncture by Mayo Clinic researchers has found
that sham treatments were no better than real acupuncture in
relieving the daily drenching sweats that some women find disabling
during menopause.
The new research, presented last month at the North American
Research Conference on Complementary and Alternative Medicine in
Edmonton, Alberta, is scheduled to be published in the journal
Menopause early next year, according to lead researcher Ann Vincent,