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In an Australian Government-funded study, Ried and Stuart of Adelaide University reviewed 8 RCT’s and 22 smaller studies involving a total of 1851 women with poor fertility. Meta-analysis of studies involving over 1000 women found...
Categories: Herbal medicine
A cutting edge 'Quest for Personalised Health: Exploring the Emergent Interface of East Asian Medicines and Modern System Sciences' conference took place in London over the weekend, bringing together systems biologists, physicists, sinologists and Chinese medicine researchers and practitioners.
Categories: General discussion
In February, the UK government’s Department of Health announced that herbalists, including practitioners of Chinese herbal medicine, will be regulated by the Health Professions Council (HPC) from April 2012
Categories: Herbal medicine
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