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Acupuncture for Procedural Pain in Newborns

A. Savannah Campbell, MD, MBA
Sean Haley, MD, MPH

American Family Physician. 2025;112(6):677-678.

Author disclosure: No relevant financial relationships.

A. SAVANNAH CAMPBELL, MD, MBA, and SEAN HALEY, MD, MPH, Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston

Address correspondence to A. Savannah Campbell, MD, MBA, at campbari@musc.edu.

Author disclosure: No relevant financial relationships.

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