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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration declassifies acupuncture needles as an "experimental product."

1995

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This is a significant step in the process of legitimizing acupuncture as a health treatment in the U.S. In the same year, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) holds a conference, where it names acupuncture as an effective treatment for nausea, and a few other conditions.