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Journal of Patient Safety
|March 19, 2015
PubMed
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Cupping therapy, a popular alternative medicine, can lead to serious complications like bilateral subdural hemorrhage. Patients with headaches after cupping require careful diagnosis to avoid misidentification of this rare adverse event.

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