Does acupuncture work? Is there any evidence?

Sao Paulo Medical Journal

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 119-120

  Atallah, Alavaro Nagib ^a,b,c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Brazilian Cochrane Center   (Brazil)

^c Associacao Paulista de Medicina APM   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ACUPUNCTURE; ALLOPATHY; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL STUDY; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; COCHRANE LIBRARY; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEADACHE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDLINE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; SAFETY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

EID: 33748875802     PISSN: 15163180     EISSN: 15163180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1516-31802006000300001     Document Type: Editorial

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