Welcome to San Diego Acupuncture
Select Health Group is a full service acupuncture clinic serving residents of downtown San Diego, the East Village, South Park, Hillcrest, Cortez Hill, Bankers Hill and nearby areas. Our acupuncture specialists have many years of experience in utilizing acupuncture to treat a wide variety illnesses and disease and have helped many people to maintain good health. We invite you to read more About Us and view profiles of our acupuncturists.
Featured Acupuncture Articles
In an effort to aide persons who are interested in acupuncture treatment as a method for maintaining health, our staff has put together a compendium of articles related to acupuncture. We hope you find these articles useful. Please contact us if you have any questions or concerns, or would like more information on the services we offer or on acupuncture in general.
Latest Acupuncture & Health News
» Researchers win in lawsuit over brain collection
A jury on Monday ruled against a Maine woman who said a prestigious research institute removed her late husband's brain without her consent.
» The truth about Gardasil, and why Rick Perry's endorsement threatened the health of millions
(NaturalNews) Texas Gov. Rick Perry's failed plot to force Merck and Co.'s Gardasil vaccine on millions of young girls in the Lone Star State has sparked renewed interest among Americans, as to what all the controversy is about concerning the vaccine (http://www.naturalnews.com/033571_Rick_Perry_HPV_vaccines.html).
The mainstream media's response to the incident has included a lot of whitewashing, as well as a full-scale damage control operation to reaffirm the supposed safety of Gardasil, which is alleged by Merck to prevent human papillomavirus (HPV) and some forms of cervical cancer. But the cat is out of the bag as thousands of curious Americans, many for the first time, are learning about the very real dangers associated with the Gardasil vaccine.
Not long after the vaccine was approved back in 2006, Gardasil's deadly side effects quickly began to emerge. Reports came in about young girls experiencing seizures and developing chronic neurological problems, as well as other conditions, immediately after receiving one or more of the three-part Gardasil vaccination schedule.
And according to Dr. Sherri Tenpenny from NewsWithView.com, there were already more than 1,200 adverse events from the vaccine logged in the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) less than a year after its release (http://www.newswithviews.com/Tenpenny/sherri14.htm).
And because as little as one percent of adverse events are even reported in VAERS, Dr. Tenpenny says that as many as 126,000 instances of "acute health problems" may have resulted from young girls getting their Gardasil shots.
A report was put together by a group of mothers whose daughters died or became seriously injured after receiving either Gardasil or Cervarix. Cervarix is another, but less popular, HPV vaccine produced by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).
Major adverse events caused by the shots include the development of autoimmune disorders, paralysis, Guillain Barre Syndrome, seizures, migraine headaches, blindness, hearing loss, memory loss, and death (http://truthaboutgardasil.org/wp-content/themes/city-thunder/ppt/030610FDApresentation.pdf).
So far in 2011 alone, there have been nearly 1,500 adverse events reported in association with Gardasil or Cervarix -- and in 2010, there were more than 2,500 adverse events reported in association with the two vaccines (http://vaers.hhs.gov/data/data).
To date, there have been more than 21,000 reported cases of girls being adversely injured by Gardasil or Cervarix, more than 3,100 serious injury reports, and more than 100 reported deaths (http://www.naturalnews.com/031502_Gardasil_documentary.html).
Based on this information, you can clearly see why Gov. Perry's 2007 executive order, and his continued defense of it, represents a significant threat to public health. If Gov. Perry's executive order would have been preserved and upheld by the Texas state legislature, thousands of additional girls in Texas may have been seriously injured or killed as a result.
To learn more about HPV and other vaccines, SANE VAX, Inc., a science-based group devoted to "Safe, Affordable, Necessary and Effective" (SANE) vaccines and vaccination practices, is a great resource:
http://sanevax.org
You can also learn more about injuries and deaths caused by HPV vaccines by visiting:
http://truthaboutgardasil.org
» Egg Donors Happy They Helped Out: Study
Title: Egg Donors Happy They Helped Out: Study
Category: Health News
Created: 10/27/2010 8:05:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 10/28/2010
» "Club drugs" replacing heroin, crack in UK: experts
"Club drug" abuse in Britain is on the rise, as young people ditch cocaine and heroin for mephedrone and ketamine, experts at the launch of a specialist drug clinic said on Monday.
» Obama healthcare law headed for Supreme Court
The Obama administration on Monday cleared the way for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide in its 2011-12 term the president's signature healthcare law that requires Americans to buy insurance or face a penalty.
Food For Thought
A collection of quotes related to acupuncture.
It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has."
-Hippocrates (460-377 B.C.)
"Most over-the-counter and almost all prescribed drug treatments merely mask symptoms or control health problems or in some way alter the way organs or systems such as the circulatory system work. Drugs almost never deal with the reasons why these problems exist, while they frequently create new health problems as side effects of their activities."
-John R. Lee, M.D.
While acupuncture represents a legacy of concepts that predate Western civilization, as a contemporary health care system it also represents a synthesis of continuously evolving scientific and technological developments which provides us with new tools to meet current clinical challenges.
Dennis Tucker, Ph.D., L.Ac.
Nevada City, California
"When health is absent Wisdom cannot reveal itself, Art cannot become manifest, Strength cannot be exerted, Wealth is useless and Reason is powerless."
-Herophilies, 300 B.C.
"The next major advance in the health of the American people will be determined by what the individual is willing to do for himself."
-John Knowles, Former President of the Rockefeller Foundation
"Don't ask the doctor, ask the patient."
-Yiddish proverb
"I think that if we had more acupuncture and less AZT [an AIDS medication], we would see a qualitative improvement in these patients' health."
William Michael Cargile, B.S., D.C., F.I.A.C.A.
"Even in acute abdominal problems, acupuncture can be used before surgery to arrest the condition before it progresses further."
Maoshing Ni, D.O.M., Ph.D., L.Ac.
Vice-President of Yo San University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Santa Monica, California
"There is evidence that acupuncture influences the production of and distribution of a great many neurotransmitters and neuromodulators, and that this in turn alters the perception of pain."
David Eisenberg, M.D.
Clinical Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School