Mayor Eric Garcetti is betting big that he can perform ‘urban acupuncture’ on some of L.A.’s grittiest streets.

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), researchers have captured pictures of the brain while patients experienced a pain stimulus with and without acupuncture to determine acupuncture ...

(AP File Photo/Charles Krupa) Vitor Faverani broke a long social media silence Tuesday afternoon with two pictures of himself apparently receiving acupuncture for his surgically-repaired left knee.

(See pictures of spiritual healing around the world.) Daniel Cherkin, a senior investigator at the center, gathered 638 patients with chronic low back pain, none of whom had ever had acupuncture ...

Pet owners in China are turning to acupuncture to help treat their injured cats and dogs. The traditional practice has been used on humans for more than 2,000 years and is now being tried on animals.