Category: Alternative medicines

Can acupuncture treat women’s health issues? Studies find mixed results

Whether acupuncture can really help treat certain health conditions is controversial, and now two new studies on the ancient practice have reached mixed conclusions.

One study found that women with stress urinary incontinence — who involuntarily urinate when they cough, sneeze, laugh or exercise — could benefit from acupuncture.

But the other study, which looked at acupuncture among women with a certain type of infertility, suggested that acupuncture did not increase these women’s chances of having a baby.

Both studies were conducted in China, and were published today (June 27) in the journal JAMA.

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Marijuana extract may help kids with severe epilepsy

Backing up what some parents have been claiming for years, researchers are now hailing a compound in marijuana as a "game-changing medication" for epilepsy. Based on testimonials from parents, Orrin Devinsky of NYU’s Comprehensive Epilepsy Center set out to find proof that epilepsy could be treated with cannabidiol (CBD)—and he says he did.

In a 14-week study, 60 kids and teens with a severe form of epilepsy known as Dravet syndrome were given doses of CBD and saw their number of monthly convulsive seizures fall from 12 on average to about six, reports Live Science.

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