Efficacy and effectiveness relate to one of the most important questions in medicine – does a particular intervention work or not? This may also be one of the most interesting questions in medical research, yet it provides an incomplete picture of the usefulness of a given treatment in daily practice. Of equal importance in the evaluation of therapeutic interventions are the issues of the safety a..

There is a story about six blind men who touch an elephant to know what it looks like. The first one touches the elephant's ear and says, "An elephant is like a large fan." The second one touches the side of its body and says, "No, it is like a wall." The third one describes the leg, "No, the elephant is a pillar." The fourth one touches the nose and shouts, "The elephant is like a big, ha..

This is a fantastic research by my colleague Charles Shang, MD HARVARD that I thought will be worth sharing in this forum.Objectives: The gold standard in testing scientific theory requires multiple independent prospective tests. This standard is applied to basic acupuncture research. This article reviews the key results of basic acupuncture research which meet the gold standard..

HAPTICS ACUPUNCTURE Acupuncture is the science and art of human haptics - the ability to manipulate and activate haptic nervous system....by needle stimulation Haptics refers to sensing and manipulation through touch. Since the early part of twentieth century, the term haptics has been used by psychologists for studies on the active touch of real objects by humans. In the l..

Ayurveda, the oldest science in this universe has been serving the mankind from thousand of years, & it is the responsibility of Physicians like us to propagate it.