NEW YORK -- Acupuncture can help relieve menstrual pain and improve the quality of life for some women, a new study from Germany shows
. Because the acupuncture patients were compared with a control group that received no therapy, rather than a "sham," or fake, version of the treatment, the placebo effect could have played a role,
Dr. Claudia M. Witt of Charite University Medical Center in Berlin and her colleagues acknowledge. "Nevertheless, our study showed that acupuncture was beneficial for women . . . ," the researchers write in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology....
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