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Acupuncture for hot flushes study

Call for volunteers: Do you have troublesome hot flushes? Volunteers wanted for acupuncture study - NEW CRITERIA!

The University of Melbourne, in collaboration with RMIT University and Jean Hailes for Women’s Health, Monash University and Southern Cross University, is looking for healthy postmenopausal women who have not had acupuncture in the past TWO years, and who can attend for ten free sessions of acupuncture (either real or placebo) as part of a study on acupuncture for hot flushes. Volunteers must be over 40, having regular hot flushes, and not menopausal as a result of surgery, radio- or chemotherapy. Treatments are provided by experienced acupuncturists located in St Kilda, Bentleigh, Coburg, Rosanna, Mount Waverley, Ringwood, Bundoora and Melton. Treatments last for 30 minutes except for the first treatment which is 45 minutes. For more information please see www.gp.unimelb.edu.au/acupause, email gp-acupause@unimelb.edu.au or call 03 90355018.

(This study has received Ethics approval from the University of Melbourne HREC1135293 16/6/11)