China is planning more and better nonprofit hospitals specializing in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in a bid to rapidly develop the country's TCM industry. A comprehensive reform will focus on State-owned TCM hospitals at county and ...
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China's trade in medical products grew by 7 percent in 2016, and the segment drove overall trade as well, a key industry body said on Friday. The China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Medicines and Health Products said higher ...
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East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet" Rudyard Kipling famously wrote, but a recent high level international conference in Frankfurt, Germany, is determined to prove him wrong, at least with regards healthcare, by ...
Traditional Chinese Medicines (TCM) are scientific and technological resources with advantages and huge innovation potentials, said Wang Guoqiang, director of the State Administration of TCM and vice-minister of the China's National Health ...
Traditional Chinese medicine makers are expanding their presence in the global markets in a big way, as the government reiterated its support to further strengthen the sector. Guangzhou Baiyunshan Pharmaceutical Holdings Co Ltd, the ...
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The UK needs to allow more shale gas exploration wells nation-wide before a reliable picture of the effect of a shale industry on the country can be properly formulated, the Task Force on Shale Gas said late Monday. The Task Force on ...
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Eighty-four-year-old Tu Youyou arrived in Sweden on Friday to collect China's first Nobel Prize in medicine for creating an anti-malarial drug that saved millions of people across the world. Half a century ago, the pharmacologist derived ...
A local UK council has validated the application for a proposed IGas project to drill two exploratory wells in order to evaluate geology and assess potential shale gas recovery, IGas announced in a statement Friday. Nottinghamshire County ...
Despite its long and proud history, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has never been a popular topic for major Chinese TV programs, but a new documentary is set to change that. Bencao Zhongguo, which translates as 'materia medica of ...
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Traditional Chinese medicine has won more recognition in Western countries in recent years, but the 5,000-year-old medical science still needs a modern interpretation to break into the mainstream Western market. According to the ...
French sportsman Julien Vandelli didn't foresee that he would spend five years reading the abstruse ancient Chinese medical text Huangdi Neijing in a Chinese university, where he practices acupuncture and medical massage. However, the ...
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The announcement of this year's Nobel Prize in medicine has triggered a new debate on traditional Chinese medicine, and reminds us that modern medical science depends on inspiration from every possible source. A Chinese scientist winning ...
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French sportsman Julien Vandelli didn't foresee that he would spend five years reading the abstruse ancient Chinese medical text Huangdi Neijing in a Chinese university, where he practices acupuncture and medical massage. However, the ...
Jiangxi Jiangzhong Pharmaceutical, one of China's major traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) makers, saw its net profit soar 45.2 percent year on year in the first half of 2015. Net profit attributable to the company's shareholders stood at ...
There's an old saying in China that a word is worth a thousand pieces of gold, but one anti-corruption official's accusations involving the name change of a medicinal herb may prove it can cost much more. Lu Qun, deputy director of an ...
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