Acupuncture Organizations

• Foundation for Traditional Chinese Medicine: Mission statement: "Through research and education, to bring the traditional Chinese system of acupuncture more centrally into the national health care system".
  

• National Acupuncture Detoxification Association: NADA conducts education and training related to the use of the specific auricular acupuncture within comprehensive addiction treatment programs to relieve suffering during detoxification, prevent relapse and support recovery.
  

Guidelines on Reporting Clinical Trials

• Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT): An important research tool (checklist) that takes an evidence-based approach to improve the quality of reports of randomized trials.
  

• STandards for Reporting Interventions in Controlled Trials of Acupuncture (STRICTA): Crafted to modify a single item on the 22-item CONSORT list -- referring to description of interventions -- which was considered too generic to be of value for improving reporting of acupuncture trials. 
  

Institutional Review Board (IRB)

• IRB Forum: Free membership but requests that users are past/current IRB members, researchers or others who will contribute to the discussion.
  

• NIH Office of Human Research (OHSR): OHSR's overall goal is to promote and support efforts to conduct innovative research which protects the rights and promotes the welfare of human subjects.
  

• Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP): OHRP supports, strengthens and provides leadership to the nations system for protecting volunteers in research that is conducted or supported by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
  

NIH Consensus Statement on Acupuncture

• National Institutes of Health Consensus Statement on Acupuncture: To provide health care providers, patients, and the general public with a responsible assessment of the use and effectiveness of acupuncture for a variety of conditions.
  

Research Databases

Acupuncture

• Acubriefs: Its purpose is to make available the most comprehensive online database of references on acupuncture in the English language.
  

CAM

• Cochrane Collaboration: International and independent organization, dedicated to making up-to-date, accurate information about the effects of healthcare with the dissemination of systematic reviews.
  

• Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects
  

• Free medical journals: Listing of free medical journals with full-text on-line downloads.
  

• IN-CAM Outcomes Database: Database of practical and accessible information on outcome measures that are relevant to CAM researchers.
  

• PubMed: The National Library of Medicine's complementary medicine database on PubMed.
  

Herbs

• Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases: Comprehensive list of the chemical composition of common herbs.
  

• Herbmed: Electronic herbal database, which provides hyperlinked access to the scientific data underlying the use of herbs for health. It is an impartial, evidence-based information resource provided by the nonprofit Alternative Medicine Foundation, Inc.
  

• Medline Plus, Drugs & Supplements: The National Library of Medicine's herb and supplement database.
  

Qi Gong

• Qigong Institute: A not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting Qigong through research and education. Database provides the only record in English of the vast amount of research on Qigong from China as well from other countries.
  

Statistics

• Statpages.net: Lists statistical software packages and links to online statistics books, tutorials, downloadable software, and related resources.