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Acupunct Med 2009;27:91 doi:10.1136/aim.2009.001503
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  1. Adrian White, editor

      This is the journal’s first issue since the publication of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) report on back pain, which is a landmark as the first NICE report to recommend acupuncture for the UK’s national health service. NICE reports are an example of how evidence is translated into practice “from bench to bedside”. In contrast to pharmaceutical research, acupuncture research starts at the bedside and moves to the bench, and the papers in this issue reflect this direction of progress, first with original papers then with the editorials.

      The clinical trial run by Glazov and his GP colleagues found that the symptoms and function of chronic low back pain patients improved when treated with laser acupuncture, though no more than they did with sham laser—but Baxter’s commentary …

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