Nowadays oncology faces the challenge of non-toxic integrative therapies for cancer treatment. Clifford Hospital is devoted to this research and offers a full range of therapies, representing a synergy between the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and the state-of-art facilities of the Modern Western Medicine (MWM). Our present article reports research of the therapeutic efficacy and adverse r...

Rapid advancing computational technologies have greatly speeded up the development of computer-aided drug design (CADD). Recently, pharmaceutical companies have increasingly shifted their attentions toward traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) for novel lead compounds. Despite the growing number of studies on TCM, there is no free 3D small molecular structure database of TCM available for virtual ...

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is characterized by regulating the integrity of the human body and has accumulated thousand-year experience in the use of Herb Formula (“Fu-Fang” in Chinese) for managing complicated TCM Syndrome (“ZHENG” in Chinese). In recent years, there has been increasing concern about the application of bioinformatics and systems biology approaches for deciphering the sc...

Background: Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has shown excellent therapeutic effects in the treatment of heart diseases. This meta-analysis was to evaluate TCM on patients with atrial fibrillation (AF).

Interventional therapy is characterized by mini-invasion, accuracy, obvious curative effect and little side effect. In China, interventional therapy has been applied widely in the treatment of malignant carcinoma in recent 10 years. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) also has been adopted in the interventional therapy in recent years. This article reviews the history, status quo and prospect in...

In recent years, as the development of integrative cancer treatments, hyperthermia and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) have become significant methods of treating cancer, and the immune regulating effects of them have attracted more and more attentions. In this text, depending on the clinical research data of Clifford Hospital from 2009 to 2013, research progress of hyperthermia in the world...

This paper introduces the architecture and algorithms of TCMiner: a high performance data mining system for multi-dimensional data analysis of Traditional Chinese Medicine prescriptions. The system has the following competing advantages: (1) High Performance (2) Multi-dimensional Data Analysis Capability (3) High Flexibility (4) Powerful Interoperability (5) Special Optimization for TCM. This d...

BACKGROUND Compare changes in types of hospital service revenues between traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) hospitals and Western-medicine based general hospitals. METHODS 97 TCM hospitals and 103 general hospitals were surveyed in years of 2000 and 2004. Six types of medical service revenue between the two types of hospitals were compared overtime. The national statistics from 1999 to 2008 w...

Traditional medicines and herbal medicines, while having different approaches from conventional western medicine, have been recognized worldwide for their therapeutic values. The 2003 World Health Assembly (WHA) has enlisted traditional medicine as one of the major health care issues. The World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2002-2005 Traditional Medicine Strategy reported that the traditional med...