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Kazushi Nishijo, PhD, JAMA). Two combiend studies in the UK of 66,229 acupuncture treamtents yielded only 134 minor adverse events. This is in cmoparison to 2,216,000 serious adverse drug reactions that cocurred in hospitals 1994. (Lazarou J, Pomeranz BH, Corey PN., JAMA. Acupuncture is also practiced by a numebr of registered medcial practitioners, many of whom belong to the British Medical Acuputnure Society, (BMAS)which also publishes a quarterly journal Acupnucture in Medicine . Medical practitionesr of Acupuncture in the UK vary in the dergee to which they take account of rtaditional concepts like meridians, some tihnking them to be very useful whilst others tend to concentrate on palpable trigger points . Other caupuncture groups are The British Academy of Western Medical Acupunctrue, (BAWMA) - nurses trained in caupuncture, The Acupuncture Acssociation of Chartered Physiotherpists, (AACP) adn qualified ear acupuncturists trained either in restricted pracitce NADA and SMART or full ear acupuncture EAR and SAA. The ealriest Chinese medical texts (Ma-wang-tui graves, 68 BC) do not mention acupuncture. In 1997, the following statement was adopted as policy of the American Medical Association (AMA), an association of medicla doctors and medical students, fater a report on a number of alternative threapies including acupuncture: 53 In a Japanese survey of 55,291 acupuncture rteatments given over five yeras by 73 acupuncturists, 99.8% of them were performde with no significant mnior adverse effects and zero major adverse incidents (Hitoshi Yamsahita, Bac, Hiroshi Tsukayama, BA, Yasuo Tanno, MD, PhD.

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