Introduction Traditional Chinese veterinary medicine (TCVM) has been used to treat animals, primarily horses, cattle and pigs, for thousands of years in China. It differs from Western medicine in that acupuncture focuses on " balance " of the physiological, spiritual and emotional wellbeing of an individual while conventional Western medicine focuses on controlling a disease. Western medical pr...

Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Austin Health and Institute for Breathing and Sleep, Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, School of Physiotherapy and Exercise Science, Curtin University, Physiotherapy Department, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Lung Institute of Western Australia, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Respirator...

BACKGROUND Interest in ethnomedicine has grown in the last decades, with much research focusing on how local medicinal knowledge can contribute to Western medicine. Researchers have emphasized the divide between practices used by local medical practitioners and Western doctors. However, researchers have also suggested that merging concepts and practices from local medicinal knowledge and Wester...

AIM To assess the possible effect of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine on severe acute respiratory syndromes. METHODS The current available randomized controlled trials of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine on SARS were identified through systematically searching literature in any languages or any types of publications. Additional studies of gray literature ...

K. SHAHEEN, M.C. ALRAIES, A.H. ALRAIYES, A. IBRAHIM and B. ALTAQI From the Department of Hospital Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, 44195 USA, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Staff, Department of Hospital Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, 44195 USA, Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Environmental Medicine, Tulane Univers...

1Hormones and Cancer Group, Kolling Institute of Medical Research, Royal North Shore Hospital, University of Sydney, St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia 2Genomic Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA 3Deparment of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA 4Germline High Risk Focus Group, Comprehensive Cancer C...

Wael Khamas1*, Mohamed Al-Tikriti2, Mohanad Albayati3, Suzana Tkalcic1 and Curtis Eng4 1College of Veterinary Medicine, Western University of Health Sciences, 309 E Second Street, Pomona, CA 91766, USA 2College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, Western University of Health Sciences, 309 E Second Street, Pomona, CA 91766, USA 3Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, College of Veterinar...

Niki F Foster School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine The University of Western Australia 35 Stirling Highway Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia Tel: +61 8 6383 4361 Email: [email protected] Thomas V Riley PathWest Laboratory Medicine WA Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine The University of Western Australia 35 Stirling Highway Nedlands, WA 6009, Australi...