Placebo needling may not be inert

A double blind randomised controlled study comparing the effects of real and placebo acupuncture on pregnancy rates after assisted reproduction has found placebo acupuncture to be associated with a significantly higher pregnancy rate. In the trial, carried out in Hong Kong, 370 patients were allocated to 25 minutes of either real or placebo acupuncture before and after embryo transfer (ET). The re ...

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