Acupuncture eases anxiety

Doctors sometimes joke that when children have surgery, their parents may need sedatives, too.

"Usually, high-anxiety parents have high-anxiety kids," said Dr Shuming Wang, an anesthesiologist at the Yale School of Medicine.

But in a study, Dr Wang and her colleagues report on another approach, acupuncture. Simple devices resembling thumbtacks attached to the ear significantly reduce parents' anxiety, they reported (from New York Times).