Extracting useful and meaningful patterns from large volumes of text data is of growing importance. In the present study we analyze vast amounts of prescription data, generated from the book of oriental medicine to identify the relationships between the symptoms and the associated medicines used to treat these symptoms. The oriental medicine book used in this study (called Bangyakhappyeon) cont...

Marc Cohen is currently the Director of the Complementary Medicine Unit at Monash University and Vice President of the Australian Integrative Medicine Association. He received his MBBS from Monash Universi~. after completing a Bachelor of Medical Science and a PhD in Traditional Chinese Medicine. For the past six years he has been responsible for creating teaching programs in acupuncture and co...

BACKGROUND Chinese and contemporary Western medical practices evolved on different cultures and historical contexts and, therefore, their medical knowledge represents this cultural divergence. Computerization of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is being used to promote the integrative medicine to manage, process and integrate the knowledge related to TCM anatomy, physiology, semiology, pathop...

BACKGROUND Primary Care reform in Canada and globally has encouraged the development of interprofessional primary care initiatives. This has led to significant involvement of non-physician Health Care Providers (NPHCPs) in the teaching of medical trainees. The objective of this study was to understand the experiences, supports and challenges facing non-physician health care providers in Family ...

Published by Elsevier. This is an open access article under the s we anticipate the forthcoming 400th anniversary of the ublication of Donguibogam, a monumental achievement of raditional medicine in East Asia, the inauguration of Integraive Medicine Research is timely and welcome news. I hope and elieve that the journal will become a new milestone for the lobal medicine. Whereas the 20th centur...

1 South East Asia Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Network, 2 Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, National Hospital of Tropical Diseases, Hanoi, Vietnam, 3 Centre for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom, 4 Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Department of Microbiology, Bangkok, Thailand, 5 Oxford University Clinical...

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is widely used in the European Union (EU) and attracts intense research interests from European scientists. As an emerging area in Europe, TCM research requires collaboration and coordination of actions. Good Practice in Traditional Chinese Medicine Research in the Post-genomic Era, also known as GP-TCM, is the first ever EU-funded 7th Framework Programme (FP7...

a Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen , b Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg , c Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Giessen and Marburg, Giessen and Marburg , and d Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, ...

On September 26-27, 2015, the 8th European Congress for Integrative Medicine convened the Global Summit on Integrative Medicine and Healthcare in Greater Copenhagen and Helsingør, Denmark at the Culture Yard just across from Kronborg Castle, which is home to William Shakespeare's Hamlet. This article is a summary of the author's presentation about integrative medicine within the Nordic region, ...