Tu Youyou sifted through 2,000 ancient herbal remedies to develop a drug that now treats hundreds of millions of people a year.
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The 2015 Nobel Prize for Medicine went partly for research done during the Chinese Cultural Revolution based on traditional Chinese medicine. Here’s the story of Project 523.
The first Chinese Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded for work based on traditional Chinese medicine. Will traditional medical knowledge now share the spotlight with evidence-based medicine?
Holistic dentistry claims to promote overall wellness rather than simply treating disease. But the lack of evidence for the alternative therapies underpinning it are cause for concern.
Rhinos, elephants and the big cats like lions and tigers are all at risk of extinction as a result of a resurgence in the illegal trade of their body parts. Newspapers in recent days have been filled with…
Type 2 diabetes patients treated with traditional Chinese medicine alongside anti-diabetic drugs are a third less likely…
Cutting complementary medicine courses from universities would dilute the quality of the education available and threaten safe practice but have no impact on demand for it, according to academics writing…
New software combines ancient Chinese practices and modern medicine to measure health by analysing images of the tongue…
There are polarising views on the subject of complementary and alternative medicines (CAM). This website has recently published numerous article about the efficacy and regulation of CAM, the placebo effect…
Most of traditional healing practices are based on intuitive principles of diseases involving the imbalance of elemental qualities. For the ancient Greeks and Romans, whose systems of traditional healing…
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Assistant Professor of History, University at Buffalo
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
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ARC DECRA Fellow. Ancient DNA, Molecular Archaeology, Environmental DNA, Murdoch University
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Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology, Adelaide University
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Associate professor, University of Sydney
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Professor and Chair, Southwestern Environmental Science and Policy, Northern Arizona University
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Associate Professor (Adj) He/Him, Southern Cross University
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Professor of Medicinal Plant Science, University of Westminster
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Research scientist, University of Hohenheim
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Assistant Professor of Chinese, Emory University
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Professor of Health Sciences, RMIT University
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PhD Candidate, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge
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Honarary Professor in Environmental Genomics, University of Otago
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Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Macquarie University
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Professor of Neurophysiology, Department of Physiology, Flinders University