Background: Recently, the traditional and complementary medicine has largely gained interest among scholars across the globe. Keeping pace with the on-going trend, the Iranian academia have provided the PhD course on Traditional Iranian Medicine. In this study, we attempted to perform a qualitative study, comparing the PhD curricula of the Chinese and Iranian traditional medicine in detail. Met...

background and purpose: multiple choice tests are the most common type of tests used in evaluating the general english knowledge of the students in most medical universities, however the efficacy of these tests are not examined precisely. we compare and examine the integrative tests and discrete point tests as   measures of the english language knowledge of medical students. methods: three test...

Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia are two major diseases associated with dementia, which is common among the elderly. While the etiology of dementia is multi-factorial and complex, neurodegeneration may be the major cause of these two diseases. Effective drugs for treating dementia are still to be discovered. Current western pharmacological approaches against neurodegeneration in dement...

Background. Yangxue Qingnao granule (YQG) combined with antihypertensive drugs, a new integrative medicine therapy, has been widely used for essential hypertension (EH) in China. This study aims to assess the current clinical evidence of YQG combined with antihypertensive drugs for EH. Methods. Randomized controlled trials(RCTs) published between 1996 and 2012 on YQG combined with antihypertens...

Background ART is costly for governments and couples seeking treatment. In addition to any other costs that may arise during treatment, such as medication, consultations and extra procedures, women undergoing IVF experience physical and emotional stress. Furthermore, it is not always possible to get a favorable outcome. Despite all the remarkable scientific advances in modern medicine, traditio...

The newly emerged concept of integrative medicine may provoke a closer investigation into the pattern of biomedicine use in the context of medical pluralism. In this study, I propose two concepts to examine the complicated cognitive and behavioural responses to biomedicine (Western medicine, xi-yi) in relation to the use of non-biomedical therapies in Taiwan, a society with renowned medical plu...

By Changzhen Gong, Ph.D. The national debate about health care is often heated, and brings up many conflicting opinions. My area of interest is the acceptance and integration of traditional Chinese medicine into mainstream medical practice in the US. From my perspective, the trend for medicine in America is steadily moving toward integrative medicine. More and more, acupuncture and traditional ...