Shocking Failure of a New Promising Drug for Heart Disease
In a trial of more than 6,300 patients, ziltivekimab sharply lowered markers of inflammation but did no better than placebo at preventing cardiovascular complications or...
TAVNS Devices Enter a Powerful New Era—but One Critical Question Remains
vagal nerve stimulation to the ear Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) is a noninvasive neuromodulation technique that stimulates branches of...
Acupuncture Affecting Skeletal interoception regulates joint homeostasis and PGE2-induced pain
Acupuncture needling What’s New in Acupuncture and Pain: Your Skeleton May Be a Sensory Relay Interoception is the body’s ability to...
Bone Loss and Osteoporisis: What NASA Discovered to Decrease It? Not Supplements
The Best Exercise to Counter Bone Loss—Plus Easier Options That Still Help from Brad Stanfield Astronauts can get 1–2% bone loss for every month they...
CT Scans. Rethinking the Risk
Recent studies throw into question the risk/benefit ratio of CT scans. Some are more risky than others in terms of cancer incidence. We’ve discussed this...
TAVNS Transcutaneous Auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Long Covid
As much as I would love this literature review to have had positive assessment of TAVNS for Long Covid, alas, it does not. The noted...
Teaching Acupuncture to Medical Students at Stanford
Stanford has been offering Medical Students an introduction and grounding in Acupuncture for 20 years! I published an article on HRV and Acupuncture with Brenda...
Hong Kong Acupuncture Conference: Cited in PubMed
Hong Kong Acupuncture I had posted on my comments for the Acupuncture Conference in Hong Kong in 2024. But I didn’t realize until today that...