A new report out of the British Fertility Society has indicated that Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine are ineffective in efforts to increase fertility in In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF) participates, according to a report out of the Nightly News. The evaluation of efficacy of acupuncture has had a turbulent past, but the trend is clear, as the studies become more rigorous, acupuncture shows no more efficacy than placebo for most indications; see here for an overview and of course the Cochrane Review. As noted in the report, this announcement comes after the declaration that homeopathy is a pseudoscience and “has no cost-effective benefit”. With such, it appears as though the British health agency is cracking down on some of these alternative medicine modalities.
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