NHS spends £25million on acupuncture each year Taxpayers are funding an estimated £25million of NHS acupuncture every year despite a lack of evidence it works, experts have warned.
Doctors should stop recommending acupuncture for pain because there is ‘insufficient evidence it is clinically worthwhile’, two scientists wrote in the British Medical Journal.
Even in China – the country that invented the practice, which usually involves putting needles in the skin – it was ‘considered irrational and superstitious’ as far back as 1700, they said. The Daily Mail
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Doctors should stop recommending acupuncture for pain because there is ‘insufficient evidence it is clinically worthwhile’, two scientists wrote in the British Medical Journal.
Even in China – the country that invented the practice, which usually involves putting needles in the skin – it was ‘considered irrational and superstitious’ as far back as 1700, they said. The Daily Mail
See also:
- Head To Head: Should doctors recommend acupuncture for pain? (open access) The BMJ
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