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Article: France launches national diploma in acupuncture
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- February 15, 2007
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France launches national diploma in acupuncture
PARIS, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- France has decided to better recognize
acupuncture by replacing an inter-university diploma in acupuncture
with a national diploma, French Education Minister Gilles de Robien
said on Wednesday.
"In France, like in many European countries, acupuncture remains a
subject of great interest to the scientific community and the public
at large," said the minister.
"However, this interest in the subject has given rise to archaic
therapeutic practices which lack solid medical backing," he said,
declaring that "the time had therefore come to accord traditional
Chinese medicine more solid university recognition."
"We have a ...