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Chinese Medicine BioMedCentral Commentary Open Access Recent developments of acupuncture in Australia and the way forward Charlie Changli Xue*, Anthony Lin Zhang, Angela Weihong Yang, Claire Shuiqing Zhang and David Frederick Story Address: World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Traditional Medicine, Discipline of Chinese Medicine, School of Health Sciences, RMIT University, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia Email: Charlie Changli Xue* - charlie.xue@.au; Anthony Lin Zhang - tony.zhang@.au; Angela Weihong Yang - angela.yang@.au; Claire Shuiqing Zhang - claire.zhang@.au; David Frederick Story - david.story@.au * Corresponding author Published: 29 April 2009 Received: 13 August 2008 Accepted: 29 April 2009 Chinese Medicine 2009, 4:7 doi:10.1186/1749-8546-4-7 This article is available from: /content/4/1/7 ? 2009 Xue et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Almost one in ten Australians has received acupuncture treatment by acupuncturists and/or medical doctors in private clinics. The majority of Australian health insurance funds offer rebates for acupuncture. Statutory regulations for acupuncture have been implemented in the State of Victoria, Australia. Six acupuncture degree courses have been approved by the Chinese Medicine Registration Board of Victoria and/or accredited by the Australian Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine Association. Furthermore, a number of clinical trials of acupuncture on allergic rhinitis, pain and womens health were carried out in Australia. Recent developments of acupuncture in Australia indicate that through adequate and appropriate evaluation, acupuncture begins to integrate into mainstream health care i