OBJECTIVE To develop a comprehensive conceptual framework of tobacco industry tactics in four countries in South East Asia for the purpose of: (1) generating consensus on key areas of importance and feasibility for regional and cross country tobacco industry monitoring and surveillance; (2) developing measures to track and monitor the effects of the tobacco industry and to design counterstrateg...

This commentary is intended to contextualise and expand upon Hansjoerg Strohmeyer’s article in this issue of the University of New South Wales Law Journal on post-conflict reconstruction of the judicial system in East Timor.* 1 In this commentary, I provide a brief overview of the history of United Nations (‘UN’) involvement in the governance of post-conflict societies generally, and describe s...

1Liver & Immunology Research Center, Daejeon Oriental Hospital of Daejeon University, Daejeon, Republic of Korea 2Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China 3Department of Orthopedic Surgery, University of Malaya, Faculty of Medicine, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 4Key Laboratory of Xin’an Medicine, Ministry of Education, Clinical College of TCM, Anhui University of TCM, Hefe...

Treatment with traditional Chinese medicinal composite is one of the most important characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Studying material base of TCM composite and its mechanism is a key to modernizing the industry of Chinese medicinal herbs. The research for TCM composite can be carried out from many different angles, including multiple components, multiple actions, multiple...

Jilin Province is one of the principal production bases of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in China with its typical preponderance in TCM resources, research and development power, and industrialization capacity. The province has 2,790 species of TCM materials in total. Over 20% of the TCM materials in common use are from Jilin Province. The province has established 36 good agricultural prac...

On May 25-26, the Taiwan Democracy Project (with support from the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in San Francisco) held its seventh annual conference entitled "How the Public Views Democracy and its Competitors in East Asia: Taiwan in Comparative Perspective.” The conference, cosponsored by the Program for East Asia Democratic Studies at National Taiwan University, brought together leading...

East Asia encompasses a wide variety of environments, peoples, cultures and languages. Although this review focuses on East Asia, no geographic region can be considered in isolation in terms of human population history, and migrations to and from East Asia have had a major impact. Here, we review the following topics: the initial colonization of East Asia, the direction of migrations between so...

Background: Oriental medicine is based on the 5-phase theory, in which the balance among the 5 viscera – the liver, the heart, the spleen, the lung and the kidney – is important. It is confusing that the viscera in Oriental and Occidental medicine have the same name. Out of the 5 viscera in Oriental medicine, it is the spleen that differs most from that in Occidental medicine. It mainly corresp...

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has been widely used as a complementary medicine in Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) treatment. In this study, we proposed a new classification of Chinese Medicines (CMs) by integrating the latest discoveries in disease molecular mechanisms and traditional medicine theory. We screened out a set of chemical compounds on basis of AML differential expression genes an...

Despite extensive efforts to improve the attitude and practice of physicians with respect to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), the role of training background on physician's own utilization of mainstream Western medicine (WM) and CAM remains unclear. We aimed to compare personal utilizations of WM and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) among doctors trained in WM only, TCM only or b...