Acupuncture is a practice used in traditional Chinese medicine that involves stimulating specific points o the body, most often by inserting needles through the skin.
According to the agency, the change was implemented "to more accurately reflect the Center's research commitment to studying promising health approaches that are already in use by the American public".
Health officials in Kansas say they have discovered a new virus that appears to be carried by ticks or other insects. The virus was discovered after the death of a man in Bourbon County, KS.
Several different types of white blood cells that are able to suppress the immune response to cancer are more abundant in cancer patients than in healthy people, but no one knew which ones actually do this suppressing.
Increased blood pressure is known as the ‘silent killer’ because of ten times, it has no manifestations. New research suggests that women who has high blood pressure are at higher risk for cardiovascular diseases and dangerous complications than in men.
About 30% of 15-year-olds in the United Kingdom say they have drunk alcohol to the point where they blacked out. Only about 5% of U.K. teens surveyed said they had never experienced a blackout.
