The British Acupuncture Council (BAcC) provides accurate & unbiased general information for a variety of conditions. Their fact sheets provide summaries of research & if/how acupuncture may be beneficial.

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The British Medical Journal (BMJ) is now publishing Acupuncture In Medicine (AIM) due to the increased quantity of research going into acupuncture.

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Evidence Based Acupuncture is a non-profit organisation that produces resources to improve public health. It has shown that research into acupuncture as a medical treatment has grown exponentially in the past 20 years, increasing at twice the rate of research into conventional biomedicine. Over this period, there have been over 13,000 studies conducted in 60 countries, including hundreds of meta-analyses summarising the results of thousands of human & animal studies.

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In recent years high-quality clinical trials investigating acupuncture have been conducted, particularly for chronic pain conditions. Therefore, there is evidence available, & the systematic reviews can draw firm conclusions. A systematic review of high-quality trials, involving over 20,000 adults with osteoarthritis, chronic headache or musculoskeletal pain (back, neck or shoulder) concluded: