Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Poking needles into people can be dangerous

Poking needles into people can be dangerous: "

Who'd have thought it? The Guardian reports (via Instapundit):



Eighty-six people have been accidentally killed by badly trained acupuncturists over the past 45 years, according to Britain's leading expert on alternative medicine.


A review of patients who died soon after acupuncture found a history of punctured hearts and lungs, damaged arteries and livers, nerve problems, shock, infection and haemorrhage, largely caused by practitioners placing their needles incorrectly or failing to sterilise their equipment.
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