background this paper aims to investigate the development trend of traditional chinese medicine (tcm) hospitals in china and explore their medical service innovations, with special reference to the changing co-existence with western medicine (wm) at tcm hospitals.   methods quantitative data at macro level was collected from official databases of china health statistical yearbook and extracts o...

1Postdoctoral Workstation of Chinese and Western Integrative Medicine, School of Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China 2The Futian Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical Institute, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China 3The First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China 4Shenzhen Institute of Geriatrics, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China 5Department of Rheumatolo...

Integrative medicine is not only an innovative China model in clinical practice, but also the bridge for TCM toward the world. In the past thirty years, great achievements have been made in integrative medicine researches, especially in clinical practice. The clinical achievements mainly include the following three: innovating methodology of disease-syndrome combination, excavating the classica...

A public hospital in Hong Kong has launched a pilot project to use a combination ofWestern and traditional Chinese medicine to treat patients with five chronic conditions. At the end of September Kwong Wah Hospital will make 110 beds available for inpatients to be treated simultaneously by Western and Chinese medical practitioners for diabetic foot; nausea andweakened immunity from chemotherapy...

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Unstated and unacknowledged bias has a profound impact on the nature and implementation of integrative education models. Integrative education is the process of training conventional biomedical and traditional Chinese medicine practitioners in each tradition such that patient care may be effectively coordinated. A bilateral education model ensures that students in each tradition are cross-taugh...

1 Department of Pharmacology, School of Chinese Materia Medica, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100102, China 2 Research Unit for Complementary and Integrative Laser Medicine, Research Unit of Biomedical Engineering in Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, and TCM Research Center Graz, Medical University of Graz, 8036 Graz, Austria 3 Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sydney, ...

1 School of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung 40402, Taiwan 2Graduate Institute of Acupuncture Science, China Medical University, Taichung 40402, Taiwan 3Department of Physiology, Institute of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100700, China 4 School of Chinese Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, 10 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong ...

BACKGROUND This article reports a survey conducted in Hong Kong on the cancer patients' attitudes towards Chinese medicine treatment. METHODS Cancer patients from three Chinese medicine clinics and one oncology clinic were interviewed with a structured questionnaire. RESULTS Of a total of 786 participants included in the study, 42.9% used Western medicine only; 57.1% used at least one form ...

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 ...