Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is one of the most popular diseases that cause menstrual dysfunction and infertility in women. The present paper is a brief retrospection on the progress in treatment of PCOS caused infertility with integrative Chinese and Western medicine (ICWM). It can be seen from these materials that using traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) recipes formulated by Shen-reple...

Dept of Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University; Dept of Cell Biology, Dept of Molecular Cardiology, Genomic Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute;Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University; Dept of Cardiovascular Medicine, Dept of Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clini...

Amplification (LAMP) Assay for Detection of Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI): a Meta-Analysis Aaron Lloyd, BS; Priyaleela Thota, MD; Chaitanya Pant, MD; Vinay Pasupuleti, MD, PhD; Adrian V. Hernandez, MD, PhD; Curtis J. Donskey, MD; Abhishek Deshpande, MD, PhD; School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH; Infectious Disease, Case Western Reserve Medical Schoo...

Most Western medicines are synthetic chemical products that come with side effects for patients, and therefore, our modern medical system needs to be optimized. A new concept called integrative medicine represents a more comprehensive system for understanding our body in a holistic fashion in terms of analyzing, evaluating and treating complex diseases successfully. Integrative medicine may be ...

ï¿1⁄2 Although in the 1920s the Nationalist government of the newly founded Republic of China almost abolished Chinese medicine, it nevertheless allowed it coexist with Western medicine after its withdrawal to Taiwan.ï¿1⁄2 The number of physicians practicing Chinese mddicine is only one tent` of the number practicing Western medicine. In today's practice, acupuncture plays a much smaller role t...

Scientific studies to investigate Chinese medicine with Western medicine have been generating a large amount of data to be shared preferably under a global data standard. This article provides an overview of Semantic Web and identifies some representative Semantic Web applications in Chinese medicine. Semantic Web is proposed as a standard for representing Chinese medicine data and facilitating...

Integrative medicine and complementary therapies in lung cancer may include Chinese medicine, Western herbal therapy, relaxation and visualization techniques, prayer, exercise, nutritional supplementation, and dietary therapy. In this chapter, the primary focus will be on Chinese medicine and related therapies that may be used in conjunction with other integrative medicine and Western medicine ...

1 Zhenjiang Hospital of Chinese Traditional and Western Medicine, Zhenjiang, China, 2 Affiliated Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China, 3 Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Jiangsu Province Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China, 4 College of Veterinary Medicine, Yangzhou University, Ya...