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Published online 22 January 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070122-1
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Acupuncture may show effect in treating Parkinson's
Mice, at least, could benefit from therapeutic use of needles.
Acupuncture, used for thousands of years in the Far East to treat pain and illness, has many followers but little scientific rigor to explain whether it works or not. Now, an unusual study suggests that acupuncture has a marked effect on the type of brain inflammation seen in Parkinson's disease — in mice, that is.
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