What does acupuncture evidence mean for your next decision?

Reader questions that arrive in another language

Part of this audience reads about treatment in its own language first, and three questions come back often enough to name here. A Dutch explainer on the werking van diclofenac covers the anti-inflammatory many readers are already taking when they start comparing options for pain. A French clinic page answering combien de temps a jeun deals with the fasting instruction that belongs to a procedure, which acupuncture is not. A German guide to the Ablauf einer Familienaufstellung describes a very different non-drug approach, and its claims deserve the same comparator questions used on this site.

Adjoining desks

Le Temps d'un Souffle, a French magazine on sleep and daily stress, covers evening rituals, breathing, qi gong and gentle practices in plain language, with no diagnosis and no promise of cure.

For readers who want the practical side of infection control in shops, workplaces and public spaces, the English magazine The Prevention Desk sets out what a small business infection control plan involves, names its sources and stays in the third person.

The Tideline Journal, an independent American magazine published on harringtonfamilyhealth.org, covers family health and access to care in rural coastal communities, including a first visit family practice checklist and plain guides to dental, mental health, and sliding fee costs.

Inside the Scanner, published on uk-radiology.co.uk, explains medical imaging in the United Kingdom from referral to report, covering the X-ray image as a shadow, CT, MRI and ultrasound, plus contrast agents, IR(ME)R 2017 rules and who reads the images.