Acupuncture is a form of alternative medicine and a component of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in which thin needles are inserted into the body. Acupuncture is a pseudoscience; the theories and practices of TCM are not based on scientific knowledge, and it has been characterized as quackery.
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is an alternative medical practice drawn from traditional medicine in China. It has been described as pseudoscientific, with the majority of its treatments having no known mechanism of action.
Chinese herbology is the theory of traditional Chinese herbal therapy, which accounts for the majority of treatments in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). A Nature editorial described TCM as "fraught with pseudoscience", and said that the most obvious reason why it has not delivered many cures is that the majority of its treatments have no logical mechanism of action.
Peking Union Medical College, founded in 1906, is a national public medical college located in Dongcheng, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with the National Health Commission. The college is part of the Double First-Class Construction. The school operates the Peking Union Medical College Hospital and hosts a joint 8-year clinical medicine science program with Tsinghua University.
The Kaohsiung Medical University is a private medical school located in Sanmin District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Pharmacy in China involves the activities engaged in the preparation, standardization and dispensing of drugs, and its scope includes the cultivation of plants that are used as drugs, the synthesis of chemical compounds of medicinal value, and the analysis of medicinal agents. Pharmacists in China are responsible for the preparation of the dosage forms of drugs, such as tablets, capsules, and sterile solutions for injection. They compound physicians', dentists', and veterinarians' prescriptions for drugs. Pharmacological activities are also closely related to pharmacy in China.
Blood stasis (BS) is a concept in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), described as a slowing or pooling of the blood due to a disruption of heart qi. Blood stasis is also described by practitioners of TCM in terms of yin deficiency, qi deficiency and qi stagnation. For non-practitioners of TCM it is sometimes explained in terms of hematological disorders such as hemorrhage, congestion, thrombosis or local ischemia, and in terms of tissue changes. TCM practitioners believe it is an important underlying pathology of many disease processes despite the fact that objective, consistent methods for measuring the presence of blood stasis syndrome are not readily available. Blood stasis is associated with justifications for acupuncture and herbal treatments.
Chen Zhu ForMemRS is a Chinese hematologist and molecular biologist who has served as president of the Red Cross Society of China since 2015.
Guangxi Medical University is located in Nanning, Guangxi, China and is one of the oldest higher education medical institutions in China. In 2010, the university was voted one of the top 20 universities in China for medicine study. Clinical medicine field by the university is categorized as world's top 1%, according to Thomson Reuters Web of Science Essential Science Indicators.
Bengbu Medical University was founded in July 1958. The school is located in Longzihu District, Bengbu, Anhui Province. The college currently has more than 2,000 teaching and medical staff, including more than 300 professors and associate professors. There are currently approximately 11,000 students enrolled in the college. Major faculties include biological sciences, preventive medicine, clinical medicine, medical imaging, medical laboratory, nursing, and pharmacology. There are three tertiary-level affiliated teaching hospitals with more than 8,000 inpatient beds.
Tu Youyou is a Chinese malariologist and pharmaceutical chemist. She discovered artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin, used to treat malaria, a breakthrough in twentieth-century tropical medicine, saving millions of lives in South China, Southeast Asia, Africa, and South America.
Frontiers Media SA is a publisher of peer-reviewed, open access, scientific journals currently active in science, technology, and medicine. It was founded in 2007 by Kamila and Henry Markram. Frontiers is based in Lausanne, Switzerland, with offices in the United Kingdom, Spain, and China. In 2022, Frontiers employed more than 1,400 people, across 14 countries. All Frontiers journals are published under a Creative Commons Attribution License.
Zhong Nanshan is a Chinese pulmonologist. He was president of the Chinese Medical Association from 2005 to 2009 and is currently the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Thoracic Disease. He is a recipient of Medal of the Republic, the highest honour of China.
Experimental Biology and Medicine is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers experimental biological and medical research. The editor-in-chief is Steven R. Goodman. It was established in 1903 as Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine and is published, as of January 2024, by Frontiers Media on behalf of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine. The journal acquired its current name in 2001.
The Chinese Journal of Integrative Medicine is a quarterly peer-reviewed medical journal covering integrative and alternative medicine. It was established in 1995 as the Chinese Journal of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine, obtaining its current name in 2003. The journal is published by Springer Science+Business Media, and sponsored by both the Chinese Association of Integrative Medicine and China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences. The editor-in-chief is Keji Chen. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 1.978.
Zhang Xichun, courtesy name Shoufu, was a Chinese physician and medical scholar who pioneered the integration of Western and Eastern medicines. The founder of a medical college in Tianjin, Zhang penned many articles on various medical topics. After his death in 1933, a thirty-volume compilation of his papers was released.
Higher Education Press (HEP) is a publisher in China of university and college-level textbooks, owned by Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China. The company's headquarters is in Beijing. HEP was among the world Top 50 publishers.
AME Publishing Company is an academic publishing company, which publishes medical journals and books. Founded in July 2009, it is currently headquartered in Hong Kong, with additional offices in Guangzhou, Changsha, Nanjing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Beijing, Taipei, and Hangzhou. Its name stands for "Academic Made Easy/Excellent/Enthusiastic". It has published over 50 medical journals, as well as 20 English-language books, 28 Chinese-language books, and 60 e-books.
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering all aspects of cardiology and vascular medicine with an emphasis on studies that offer new treatments and practices or facilitate the translation of scientific advances into clinical practice. It was established in 2014 and is published by Frontiers Media. The editors-in-chief are Hendrik Tevaearai Stahel and Masanori Aikawa.
Frontiers in Medicine is a peer-reviewed open access medical journal covering all aspects of medicine in 18 sections. It was established in 2014 and is published by Frontiers Media. The editor-in-chief is Michel Goldman.
