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Swiss-Vietnamese professor founded and supports acupuncture clinic in Vietnam:
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China is now the fattest country in the world, second only to the United States. One out of five Chinese children over the age of 7 is overweight, and nearly 10 percent are obese. A Chinese hospital that treats overweight children has a rather straightforward, but perhaps not politically incorrect name -- the Fat Reduction Hospital. Here kids are treated with calorie restriction, exercise and acupuncture.
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A 10-YEAR-OLD boy from a poor family in Sichuan Province finally received an operation to treat his congenital heart disease, thanks to a Shanghai hospital that used acupuncture anesthesia to reduce side effects and cut medical costs in half.
The boy, Wang Wenbin, was the youngest patient in China ever to undergo the needle-based procedure, under which doctors are able to cut the dosage of traditional anesthetic drugs by one-fifth to one-third and allow the patient to breathe by himself instead of using a respirator, the hospital said yesterday.
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An acupuncturist in the Swedish city of Sundsvall will have to pay a fine for illegally treating a young child, a court ruled. Prosecution in the medical case had asked that the unidentified acupuncturist be fined for offering her medical services to a 1-month-old child who was suffering from colic, The Local said Friday.
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Dr Steven Minger, director of the Stem Cell Biology Laboratory at King's College London, is leading a two-year project to establish links between UK and Chinese scientists to study the possible beneficial effects of TCMs. The project, on behalf of the British Government, aims to feed into the development of new drugs.
"You look at TCM and it is booming in China. People really believe in it, and I have to say I have begun to believe in it," he told Times Higher Education. "What I want to do is demystify it. I want to get it down to - if possible - what is it in this that really does something? What is it in here that, if you have got a bad cough and you (feel like you) are dying, makes your chest quit hurting?"
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China's Shenzhou-7 astronauts took traditional Chinese herbal medicine in their spaceflight to treat space motion sickness, a doctor with the astronauts training center said.
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The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) yesterday launched a new program in the field of acupuncture in collaboration with the Institute of Acupuncture & Natural Medicines (IANM), New Delhi. This is the first time that a medical program will be offered online with contact sessions for practical training.
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Shiatsu, developed in the early 20th century by a Japanese practitioner, Tamai Tempaku, incorporated the newer Western medical knowledge of anatomy and physiology into several older meth¬ods of treatment. Originally he called it "Shiatsu Ryoho", or "finger pressure way of healing", then "Shiatsu Ho", "finger pressure method". Now known simply as "Shiatsu", it was officially recognized as a therapy by the Japanese Government in 1964, so distinguishing it from the older form of traditional massage, Anma. Shiatsu therapists diagnose and treat according to the principles of Oriental medicine.
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Chinese herbal medicine, protected Chinese people through ages before the introduction of Western medicines to China.
A seventy-year-old man who holds to the traditional ways has come up with his own creations promoting Chinese medicine - he's turned herbal iconic images into cartoon toys.
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While Hangzhou's biggest tourist attraction is the scenic West Lake, the capital of Zhejiang province in eastern China has much more to offer than just picture-postcard views. The city was, after all, once the capital of China in the 12th and 13th centuries. And it played important roles in the development of iconic Chinese things such as tea, silk and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).
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