Background:since the 1970s,acupuncture has become popular in the West for many conditions,and particularly for treating chronic *** the increasing use of acupuncture and other complementary and alternative medicine (C...
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Background:since the 1970s,acupuncture has become popular in the West for many conditions,and particularly for treating chronic *** the increasing use of acupuncture and other complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) interventions,the demand for scientific evaluation of these modalities has *** the United States,this expansion is exemplified by the 1991 establishment of the National Insti- tutes of Health (NIH) Office of Alternative Medicine,authorized by the US Congress,and by a 1994 FDA workshop that led to a reclassification of the acupuncture needle as a medical device and the 1997 NIH con- sensus conference on *** the latter 1990s,clinical trials on acupuncture have dramatically increased,along with increased research funding in the US and other Western *** example,in the US,the budget of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for CAM research,including acupuncture research,increased from 2 million in 1992 to 123 million in ***,based on the results of a database search,over 500 ran- domized clinical trials (RCTs) have been published during the past 10 years,1997 to 2007,compared to only 125 between 1987 and *** recent years,acupuncture research has become part of evidence-based medicine,and clinical trials in particular have been rigorously and scientifically evaluated.
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