Acupuncture and IVF

There has been a lot of research over the years into the effect of acupuncture on improving pregancy rates for women having IVF. Most studies have found that acupuncture has a favourable effect, and recent analysis of 24 trials came to the same conclusion see details. 

Interestingly, this analysis also looked at the way in which "sham acupuncture" was given to some control groups in order to compare acupuncture treatment against non-acupuncture.  The researchers concluded that the apparently "sham" acupuncture may not be "sham" and actually has a positive effect, something which acupuncturists have been saying for a long time! I have commented on this in my website - see the section headed "How is research into acupuncture conducted?"