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Hot flash relief associated with use of acupuncture. (Pilot Study).
EXETER, ENGLAND -- Acupuncture was associated with a reduction in the frequency and severity of hot flashes in women being treated with tamoxifen for breast cancer.
In a pilot study, 47 women with a primary diagnosis of breast cancer and a good prognosis who had been taking tamoxifen for at least 6 months and were experiencing hot flashes and night sweats underwent eight sessions of acupuncture treatment at weekly intervals, Beverley de Valois said.
Participants in the study kept diaries chronicling the frequency and severity of their hot flashes and responded to a validated women's health questionnaire regarding physical and emotional well-being, Ms. de Valois said at a symposium on alternative and complementary therapies sponsored by the universities of Exeter and Plymouth.
"Our working hypothesis was that there would be a 50% reduction in the frequency of hot flashes in 30% of the women, she said.
"By the conclusion of the treatment period we slightly ...
- de Valois, Ninette
- Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography January 1, 2005 700+ words
Ninette de Valois In the space of a quarter-century, Ninette de Valois (1898 – 2001) made Britain's Royal...Starting it virtually from scratch in the late 1920s, de Valois worked tirelessly to make what was originally the...
- Call Her `Madame'.(Ninette de Valois)(Obituary)
- Magazine article from: Dance Magazine BARNES, CLIVE June 1, 2001 700+ words
...span over a century, but Dame Ninette de Valois, O.M., C.H., a woman everyone...had ever heard of Margaret Thatcher. De Valois was one of the tiny handful of people...impact was not made as a dancer, although de Valois danced with some distinction. Nor was...
- Yes, yes, Ninette. (Ninette de Valois celebrates her 100th birthday)(Column)
- Magazine article from: Dance Magazine Barnes, Clive August 1, 1998 700+ words
Ninette de Valois was one hundred years old on June 6...notable, nor is it at all untypical. De Valois always showed the quality of endurance...Edris Stannus (a.k.a. Dame Ninette de Valois, O.M., C.H., D.B.E., Chevalier...
- Marguerite de Valois: "La reine Margot."(Book review)
- Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review Sluhovsky, Moshe October 1, 2006 700+ words
Marguerite de Valois 'la reine Margot'. By ELIANE VIENNOT...ISBN 2-262-02377-8. Marguerite de Valois (1553-1615) was a diplomat, a patron...readable book demonstrate, Marguerite de Valois encompasses two women in one: the flesh...
- The Making of a Choreographer: Ninette de Valois and Bar aux Folies-Bergere.
- Magazine article from: Dance Magazine Perlman, Doris February 1, 1997 700+ words
...through his associations with Ninette de Valois and with Leonide Massine, one of his...Ashton's chief mentors, Dame Ninette de Valois, born Edris Stannus in Ireland in 1898...The Making of a Choreographer: Ninette de Valois and Bar aux Folies-Bergere, has written...
- Royal Ballet, Barbican Theatre, London, June 15-20, 1998; Birmingham Royal...
- Magazine article from: Dance Magazine Parry, Jann October 1, 1998 700+ words
...1998 REVIEWED BY JANN PARRY Dame Ninette de Valois's one-hundredth birthday on June...with a modest gala to honor Madam, as de Valois is known to the ballet world. Friends...both companies performed excerpts from de Valois's ballets: the program included the...
- Dame Ninette de Valois.
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire March 9, 2001 700+ words
...9 March 2001-UK Government: Dame Ninette de Valois (C)1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE...Minister, Alan Howarth, said today of Dame Ninette de Valois: "Dame Ninette de Valois was one of the greatest artistic figures of the...
- NINETTE - A WOMAN OF VISION; Richard Edmonds talks to Dame Ninette de Valois,...
- Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) Edmonds, Richard June 6, 1998 700+ words
This morning, Dame Ninette de Valois celebrates her 100th birthday. She is, without...young Edris Stannus (her mother chose Ninette de Valois for her, basing the name on a de Valois link in the family) daydreamed a great deal...
