Recently, the journal of the American medical association (JAMA) published a set of five letters from five countries eight academics, questioned the magazine published a report randomized clinical trials in the acupuncture treatment of joint pain -- 
 
 
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    Report from our correspondent (reporter Zhou Manyi) in November 2014, the newspaper reported that the needle group for an article about "acupuncture treatment of senile chronic knee pain is invalid" clinical trial report and a special seminar, conference, experts questioned the report, calling for the scientific method is used to study acupuncture. Recently there are new progress, on February 10, the journal of the American medical association (JAMA) published a set of five letters from five countries eight scholar "letter to the editor", questioned the magazine published the report.
 
    Event resulted from October 1, 2014 the journal of the American medical association published in the Australian scholar Rana Hinman 14 authors of the report, etc. Report titled "acupuncture treatment of chronic knee pain: a randomized clinical trial", the paper concluded that "the age of fifty patients with moderate or severe knee joint chronic pain, laser acupuncture (using a micro beam of laser irradiation of acupoint new acupuncture method) or needle acupuncture treatment to improve pain or function without benefits, as well as the placebo effect, research does not support the use of acupuncture treatment for these patients."
 
    JAMA is one of the world's most authoritative medical journal the lancet and the New England journal of medicine, "the British medical journal and called the world four big authority comprehensive medical journal, so the paper published, it aroused the extensive concern of the media and the international community acupuncture, Reuters and other mainstream media and web sites with news and commentary.
 
    At the same time, many have many years experience of practicing medicine acupuncture, the doctor said that patients with clinical experience, the experience and the basis of a large number of experiments and clinical trials in recent decades the research conclusion is inconsistent.
 
    For this, the world federation of acupuncture and moxibustion in November 2014 at the conference in the United States Houston, set up a special seminar, nearly hundred scholars attended the meeting, on the the quality of the acupuncture clinical research conclusion and put forward the question, at the same time calling for academia and relevant management agencies to improve the study of acupuncture and moxibustion of academic standards, clinical key question, don't be too hasty conclusions, avoid spread unconfirmed information.
 
    The five question the letter the author respectively from the United States, Hong Kong, China, New Zealand, Switzerland and Germany. Each letter questions although different, but all the article of acupuncture and moxibustion treatment of knee pain is invalid conclusions. Five letter pointed out that the article respectively in the design of experiment, acupuncture methods, measuring, patient observation, assessment, data comparison, the conclusion and academic integrity, and many other aspects. Magazines also published Australian author Hinman reply, most of the problems are put forward on the letter made a positive answer.
 
    Five letter, one of the authors of the New Jersey Dr Stevens bjh.simplified methods for practicing medicine in the United States. In an interview with the financial times, he says, "with issue of JAMA published five letter questioned a report, is very rare, magazine published in other similar question is usually three letters of the following letter." According to Stevens bjh.simplified methods for these letters are very representative, points out the shortages of the clinical research and hasty conclusion. After in Australia, the authors report the repeated readings of the original Stevens bjh.simplified methods for a key question in the letter, the original purpose of clinical trials is to verify the curative effect of laser, rather than to examine the effects of acupuncture therapy, so finally it is concluded that acupuncture treatment is invalid accordingly is not reasonable.
 
    Sent a letter to the other two Chinese author is Hong Kong university of traditional Chinese medicine, dean of the school of labor and the Florida association He Gongjian acupuncture. They also this report puts forward many questions from different angles. At the same time, participate in the questioning of experts also said that interested readers can log on to JAMA website refer to the original, independent judgment and wrongs.
 
 
 
 
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