Response to: Madsen MV, Gotzsche PC, Hrobjartsson A. Acupuncture treatment for pain: Systematic review of randomised clinical trials with acupuncture, placebo acupuncture, and no acupuncture groups

This January, BMJ published a systematic review of acupuncture clinical trials for pain conditions. The authors were from Nordic Cochrane Centre in Denmark. They have been researching the placebo effect in medical interventions for a number of years.