How best to handle missing data in intent-to-treat analysis of longitudinal data from
randomized clinical trials is a complex and controversial area1 with a number of different …

How best to handle missing data in intent-to-treat analysis of longitudinal data from
randomized clinical trials is a complex and controversial area1 with a number of different …

Background Partly because of a lack of a conventional, effective treatment for cocaine
addiction, auricular acupuncture is used to treat this disorder in numerous drug treatment …

© 2009 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. lowed to conclude that
acupuncture significantly reduced back pain, presumably because both trials also included …

Moffet takes the view that there is no biological rationale or explanation for the assumption
that verum and sham acupuncture differ. Our study, however, concentrated not only on a …

The randomized trial by Cherkin et al 1 comparing 2 forms of acupuncture, simulated
acupuncture and usual care for low back pain, raises some questions we would like to …

In 1997, a National Institutes of Health consensus panel reported that evidence was
available supporting acupuncture for NVP (2). Lao and associates'(3) study in the ferret …

To the Editor.—Chein and Shapiro (224: 1533, 1973) accept with reservations my objection
(223: 922, 1973) that double-blind studies of acupuncture are not feasible.(The reason is …

The relationship between conventional allopathic medical care and the world of
complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) remains ambiguous. Numerous surveys …

To the Editor.—Adler (222: 833, 1972) urges a scientific evaluation of the role of suggestion
in the efficacy of acupuncture. He, like others, urges a double-blind study, using as controls …