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Acupuncture volunteers needed in Gaza!

January 2010

We have received this message from World Medicine: After three projects in Nablus in 2009, and a recent successful visit to Gaza in October 2009, World Medicine is inviting volunteers to join our 2010 projects during March/April.

A Gaza community mental health programme survey in 2009 found that about 75 per cent of children over six were suffering from symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder following the war in January 2009. During the World Medicine Gaza project in October 2009 our volunteers provided 1,700 acupuncture treatments, with some patients receiving treatment up to four or five times. World Medicine also provided training in auricular acupuncture to local doctors. We have been invited to return to Gaza as soon as we are able in order to continue our work.

World Medicine is currently trying to raise money to support volunteers. At present volunteers have to raise their own funds to cover flights, accommodation, translators etc. Whilst costs vary, we estimate that for these projects this will be somewhere in the region of £1000.

If you would like to join the World Medicine team and volunteer for this valuable work, please go to www.worldmedicine.org.uk, fill out the volunteer application form and email to info@worldmedicine.org.uk. For general enquiries about our work, or if you would like to support World Medicine in other ways, please email info@worldmedicine.org.uk.

Living medicine parks project gains funding and seeks herbalists

January 2010

London-based herbalists are needed for a year-long community project in cullompton garden. The organisation Living Medicine, which is working towards creating healing community gardens nationwide, has won a grant to run a year-long community herbal project in West Ham Park in London.

They are seeking herbalists in the local area to be involved in crucial development work and in delivering workshops in the park and at local community venues.

They hope the scheme will be up and running by March so are keen to receive expressions of interest as soon as possible. They are seeking herbalists in both paid and voluntary positions.

One aim of this project is to create a template that can be reproduced across the country. If you would like to be in at the beginning of an exciting vision, please get in touch with Melissa Ronaldson.

Contact details
Name: Melissa Ronaldson
Email: Melissa@lcherbalists.co.uk
Website: http://www.livingmedicine.org

2009 Annual Evidence Update on CAM for Low Back Pain

January 2010

The NHS Evidence - complementary and alternative medicine specialist collection has published its third Annual Evidence Update on CAM for Low Back Pain : NHS Library.

This update aims to present a comprehensive collection of up-to-date information that has been subject to rigorous selection criteria. We have carried out searches in a number of databases, covering the period from July 2008 to September 2009. This update includes a list of relevant guidelines, systematic reviews, meta-analyses and selected randomised controlled trials, along with commentaries from experts.

This year's highlight is the NICE guideline View Guidance on early management of persistent non-specific low back pain.

The 2009 evidence update can also be accessed from the CAM specialist collection home page View CAM section.

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