Kurz-Zusammenfassung Das Modellvorhaben Akupunktur der Techniker Krankenkasse und der dem Modellvorhaben beigetretenen Kranenkassen.

Objective of this study is to evaluate whether acupuncture improves rates of pregnancy and live birth when used as an adjuvant treatment to embryo transfer in women undergoing in vitro fertilisation.

The purpose of this review is to describe how male erectile dysfunction and infertility are understood from an Eastern medical perspective
and to review the available research evaluating the efficacy of acupuncture in the treatment of these disorders.

Objective is to summarize and critically review all randomized controlled trials on the efficacy of acupuncture as a treatment for tinnitus.

The author conducted a PubMed search to obtain a fair sample of acupuncture clinical trials published in English in 2005. Each article was reviewed for a physiologic rationale, as well as study objectives and outcomes, experimental and control interventions, country of origin, funding sources and journal type.