
What colleges are doing to address students' unprecedented levels of stres
At freshman orientation at Cal State Northridge in August, students got information about the new wellness center, which offers acupuncture, massage therapy and drop-in yoga. (Ricardo De Aratanha / Los Angeles Times) Ye Seong Kim's freshman year at UCLA was so stressful that she considered dropping out and attending a community college until she was better prepared. "After struggling and studying so hard, it seemed like it wasn't paying off and I wasn't getting the grades," s

Acupuncture provides benefits to patients with asthma
Receiving acupuncture treatment along with routine care was associated with increased health-related and disease-specific quality of life compared with routine care alone in patients with allergic asthma, according to research recently published in The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. “Several studies in the last 2 decades that evaluated the efficacy of acupuncture in the treatment of asthma have been inconclusive. More research in this area has been encoura

Acupuncture Cuts Migraine Severity
Researchers conclude that acupuncture increases the clinical effective rate of the drug deanxit for the treatment of migraines. Importantly, the addition of acupuncture to the administration of deanxit significantly reduces the adverse effects caused by the medication. The data was published in the report entitled Clinical Effect Observation of Acupuncture and Moxibustion Combined with Flupentixol/Melitracen Tablet in the Treatment of Migraine. This research confirms findings