The usefulness of a drug is typically measured by its active ingredient. But traditional Chinese medicine shows that there’s more to healing than using the right chemical.
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Fascinating facts about this unusual fish include that it doesn’t swim very well. A marine expert reveals why
New research shows that the oldest surviving anatomical atlas comes from Han Dynasty China, and was written over 2,000 years ago.
From herbal remedies to acupuncture, traditional therapies are valued particularly by ethnically diverse groups.
The slaughtered tigers were not bred in zoos, yet their story should put captive breeding in general into question.
Trading rhino horn has been legalised in a bid to undercut poachers and the black market.
Bears in Asia are trapped in bile farms, where they are kept in small cages for decades.
Would you trust a complementary medicine described as “vermifuge”, “vulnerary” or “emmenagogue”? That’s what new labelling proposes and not everyone’s happy about it.
Some emergency doctors are already using acupuncture to relieve patients’ pain. Now a new study shows when it works, when it doesn’t and how emergency departments of the future might use it.
The coveted and unusual aphrodisiac found only at very high altitudes can fetch up to US$100,000 a kilo.
Making sure that a tablet claiming to have 500 mg of paracetamol really does contain 500 mg of paracetamol is relatively easy. But how do you test for herbs?
Tu Youyou sifted through 2,000 ancient herbal remedies to develop a drug that now treats hundreds of millions of people a year.
The 2015 Nobel Prize for Medicine went partly for research done during the Chinese Cultural Revolution based on traditional Chinese medicine. Here’s the story of Project 523.
The first Chinese Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded for work based on traditional Chinese medicine. Will traditional medical knowledge now share the spotlight with evidence-based medicine?
Holistic dentistry claims to promote overall wellness rather than simply treating disease. But the lack of evidence for the alternative therapies underpinning it are cause for concern.
Rhinos, elephants and the big cats like lions and tigers are all at risk of extinction as a result of a resurgence in the illegal trade of their body parts. Newspapers in recent days have been filled with…
Type 2 diabetes patients treated with traditional Chinese medicine alongside anti-diabetic drugs are a third less likely…
Cutting complementary medicine courses from universities would dilute the quality of the education available and threaten safe practice but have no impact on demand for it, according to academics writing…
New software combines ancient Chinese practices and modern medicine to measure health by analysing images of the tongue…
There are polarising views on the subject of complementary and alternative medicines (CAM). This website has recently published numerous article about the efficacy and regulation of CAM, the placebo effect…
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Health activist, Medreach Pty Ltd., Bond University
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Professor of Neurophysiology, Department of Physiology, Flinders University
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Senior lecturer in Pharmacology, University of Adelaide
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Professor, Principal Scientist (Genomics), ESR
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ARC DECRA Fellow. Ancient DNA, Molecular Archaeology, Environmental DNA, Murdoch University
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Professor of Conservation and Applied Resource Economics, University of Kent
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Professor of Health Sciences, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer, Public health dentistry, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
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Assistant Professor of Chinese, Emory University
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Professor of Medicinal Plant Science, University of Westminster
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Olajos Goslow Chair, Northern Arizona University
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PhD Candidate in Conservation Biology, The University of Queensland
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Doctoral Student at the Institute for Applied Entomology, University of Hohenheim, University of Giessen
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Senior Lecturer in Animal Science, The University of Queensland
