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 ...

Results Integrative medicine practices are increasingly popular in both China and Korea. 81.6% of Chinese medicine doctors and 32% of Western medicine doctors report experience with integrative medicine in China. In contrast, while 74% of Traditional doctors report experience with integrative medicine in South Korea, WM doctors in South Korea reported none. Doctors in China gave a slightly high...

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...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the therapeutic effect and applying value of Hegu (LI 4) for inertia of uterus. METHODS In three centers, 276 cases enrolled were randomly assigned to a western medicine group and an acupuncture and western medicine group. The western medicine group were treated with intravenous drip of oxytocin, and the acupuncture and western medicine group were treated with electroacu...

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a medical science and cultural heritage empirically applied reserved by people for thousands of years. The fact that TCM has been used in China years shows the value reason why it must exist. Although or being questioned, there no doubt about its importance terms efficacy. education "Western medicine practitioners learning medicine" mode continuing with cha...

BRIDGE # # Bridge = 1 week introduction to the clinical blocks. (Dotted lines denote 4 week segments within a block) Other than the two week vacation period over the Christmas and New Years Holidays vacation period each year, students are expected to assume the professional responsibilities of the service on which they are rotating. There will be no set days off for Memorial Day, July 4, Labor ...