Women

Read Dr Hullender Rubin's most recent research: Acupuncture improves IVF pregnancy rates.

The following studies can help you learn more about fertility and women's health:

Role of acupuncture in the treatment of female infertility

Role of acupuncture in the management of subfertility

Influence of acupuncture on the pregnancy rate in patients who undergo assisted reproduction therapy

Acupuncture normalizes dysfunction of Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Ovarian Axis

Acupuncture treatment for infertile women undergoing Intracytoplasmic Sperm injection (ICSI)

Substitution of acupuncture for HCG in ovulation induction

Relationship between blood radiioimmunoreactive beta-endorphin and hand temperature during the electro-acupuncture induction of ovulation

Reduction of blood flow impedance in the uterine arteries in infertile women with electro-acupuncture

Effects of electro-acupuncture on nerve growth factor and ovarian morphology in rats with experimentally induced polycystic ovarian syndrome

Acupuncture on the day of embryo transfer significantly improves the reproductive outcome in infertile women: a prospective, randomized trial

Effect of acupuncture on the outcome of in vitro fertilization and intracytoplasmic sperm injection: a randomized, prospective, controlled clinical study

Influence of acupuncture stimulation on pregnancy rates for women undergoing embryo transfer

Systematic review of the effects of acupuncture on rates of pregnancy and live birth

Changes in serum cortisol and prolactin associated with acupuncture during controlled ovarian hyperstimulation in women undergoing in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer treatment


Abstracts of the following studies:

  Clinical studies on the mechanism for acupuncture ovulation

Auricular acupuncture in the treatment of female infertility

Experimental study on inhibitory effect of Chinese medicine taibo on antisperm antibody

Adjuvant L-Arginine treatment for in-vitro fertilization poor responder patients

A preliminary immunopharmacological study of an antiendometriotic herbal medicine, Keishi-bukuryo-gan