perimenopausal depression Archives

Acupuncture for Menopause Depression: Korean Cohort Found No QALY Gain

by GLOOM

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A 2026 Korean claims analysis of 32,941 women with menopausal disorders found that traditional Korean medicine without recorded acupuncture claims had the lowest 3-year cost and the highest mean quality-adjusted life-year estimate, while acupuncture-inclusive or Western-medicine-inclusive strategies cost more and produced slightly lower QALYs. Research Highlights Lowest-cost group also had the highest QALYs: traditional Korean …

Electroacupuncture for Depression Has Mechanisms, Not Firm Trial Proof

by GLOOM

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A 2026 review of electroacupuncture for depression found a familiar split: mechanistic evidence is rich, but clinical proof remains uneven because representative trials ranged from 65 to 270 participants, used different sham or drug comparators, and often failed to connect stimulation parameters with biological endpoints.1 Electroacupuncture is plausible as a subtype-matched neuromodulation strategy, but it …