Dr. Yoshio Manaka’s insights and contributions to the field of TEAM.

Stephen Birch.

Traditional Needling Techniques as Practical Constructions from Reading Historical Descriptions

Stephen Birch.

Filling the whole in acupuncture

Part1: What are we doing in the supplementation needle technique?
Stephen Birch

Shen

Shonishin: Japanese Pediatric Acupuncture Japanese approaches to adapting acupuncture for children

Stephen Birch.

Acupuncture Research, the story so far.

Stephen Birch and George Lewith

Journal Club 2012 – S.Birch Comment

TRADITIONALLY BASED SYSTEMS OF ACUPUNCTURE

THEIR ‘EXPLANATORY’ NATURE, MODELS, NEEDS AND REQUIREMENTS FOR TESTING THEM.
STEPHEN BIRCH PhD, LicAc, MBAcC

Acupuncture Adverse Events in China

Stephen Birch, PhD, Terje Alraek, PhD, and Arne Johan Norheim, MD, PhD.

Controlling for non-specific effects of acupuncture in clinical trials

Stephen Birch.

DeQi

Mark Bovey.

Diversity and Acupuncture

Stephen Birch.

Preliminary results of a new method for locating auricular acupuncture points

Mathematical Modeling as a Tool for Basic Research in Acupuncture

MARK J. FRIEDMAN, Ph.D., STEPHEN BIRCH, Ph.D., Lic.Ac., and WILLIAM A. TILLER, Ph.D.

Clinical Research on Acupuncture: Part 2. Controlled Clinical Trials, an Overview of Their Methods

STEPHEN BIRCH, Ph.D., Lic.Ac. M.B.Ac.C..

Reviews of acupuncture for chronic NECK PAIN: pitfalls in conducting systematic reviews

P. White, G. Lewith, B. Berman and S. Birch.

Traditional East Asian Medical Pulse Diagnosis: A Preliminary Physiologic Investigation

PLACEBO

A Review and Analysis of Placebo Treatments, Placebo Effects, and Placebo Controls in Trials of Medical Procedures When Sham Is Not Inert.
STEPHEN BIRCH, Ph.D., Lic.Ac. (US), M.B.AcC. (UK)

A Review of the Reliability of Traditional East Asian Medicine Diagnoses

Kylie A. O’Brien, Ph.D., and Stephen Birch, Ph.D.

Revised STandards for Reporting Interventions in Clinical Trials of Acupuncture (STRICTA)

Hugh MacPherson, Douglas G Altman, Richard Hammerschlag, et al
Acupunct Med 2010 28: 83-93 originally published online June 3, 2010 doi: 10.1136/aim.2009.001370

Sham acupuncture is not a placebo treatment – implications and problems in research

Stephen Birch PhD, LicAc, MBAcC.

Testing the claims of traditionally based acupuncture

S. Birch.

Investigating the Reliability of Japanese TOYOHARI Meridian Therapy Diagnosis

Kylie Ann O’Brien, Ph.D., Estelle Abbas, B.App.Sc.(ChinMed), Paul Movsessian, Dip.Appl.Sc.(Acu), Michael Hook, Dip.Acu., B.A., Paul A. Komesaroff, Ph.D., and Stephen Birch, Ph.D.

Issues to consider in determining an ADEQUATE TREATMENT in a clinical trial of acupuncture

S. Birch.

International Workshop on Acupuncture Research Methodology.

introduction to consensus reports on workshop topics
Stephen Birch, Richard Hammerschlag, George Lewith

Matching acupuncture clinical study designs to research questions

Karen J. Sherman, Lixing Lao, Hugh MacPherson, George Lewith, Val Hopwood, Kenji Kawakita.

The clinical evaluation of Traditional East Asian systems of medicine

Hugh MacPherson, Karen Sherman, Richard Hammerschlag, Stephen Birch, Lixing Lao, Christopher Zaslawski.

The non-specific effects of acupuncture treatment: when and how to control for them

Stephen Birch, Richard Hammerschlag, Kien Trinh, Chris Zaslawski.

Performing systematic reviews of clinical trials of acupuncture: problems and solutions.

Adrian White, Kien Trinh, Richard Hammerschlag.

The role of acupuncture schools and individual practitioners in acupuncture research

Lixing Lao, Karen Sherman, Mark Bovey.

Standards for reporting interventions in controlled trials of acupuncture: the STRICTA recommendations

H. MacPherson, A. White, M. Cummings, K. Jobst, K. Rose, R. Niemtzow for the STRICTA group.

Standards for reporting interventions in controlled trials of acupuncture: the STRICTA recommendations

H. MacPherson, A. White, M. Cummings, K. Jobst, K. Rose, R. Niemtzow for the STRICTA group.