Pharmacists pack and sell Chinese medicine at the Hu Qingyutang Chinese Medicine Museum in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. [Photo by Feng Chonglin/chinadaily.com.cn] BEIJING -- The Chinese traditional medicine (TCM) evidence-based medical center, the world's first organization of such kind, was officially established Tuesday in the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences (CACMS). The center will pool together efforts of CACMS and other organizations like Beijing University of Chinese Medicine for TCM evidence-based research. Evidence-based medicine is a widely-used approach in medical practice that is intended to optimize decision-making in treating individual patients by emphasizing the use of evidence from well-designed and well conducted research. Under this approach, clinical evidence serves as the main basis for evaluating effectiveness and safety of treatment. Though increasingly recognized around the world, TCM still lacks evidence justifying its clinical effectiveness and safety, which according to experts hinders it from going global. Evidence-based medical studies evaluate the clinical verifiability and effectiveness of a medical theory with scientific examination and analysis, said Huang Luqi, academician with the Chinese Academy of Engineering and head of CACMS, at a Tuesday event marking the center's establishment. Combining evidence-based medical studies and TCM's features will help enhance clinical effectiveness of TCM, as well as provide opportunities for TCM to prove its medical values to the world, Huang said. Former Director-General of World Health Organization Margaret Chan said TCM had served the health needs of people in China and beyond for several thousand years and its safety and effectiveness deserved to be recognized. There should not be barriers between TCM and western medicine, which both should join forces to serve people's health needs, she said. silicone lymphedema braceletmontre tommy hilfiger homme bracelet siliconesilicone wristbands amazonwristbands online coupon coderubber band bracelets how to
Students undergo physical examinations ahead of the entry exam for a senior middle school in Changzhou, Jiangsu province. [Shi Kang/For China Daily] Like many nearsighted people, the first thing Chen Xu does when she wakes in the morning is grab her glasses and put them on. Other people might say the first thing should be to dress or brush her teeth, but Chen disagrees. She doesn't want her first view of the world every morning to be blurred. The 35-year-old, who teaches English at a junior middle school in Shanghai, started wearing corrective lenses when she was about the same age as the 13-to 15-year-old children she teaches. At first, my nearsightedness was only-3 or-4 diopters (a low level). It then grew with my educational background, joked Chen, who has a master's in education studies. Before I graduated from college in 2006, it had risen to-7 diopters and has stayed at that level ever since. Recalling spending her adolescence at her desk - often for hours without even a short break - to finish assignments or read novels, she said: The academic workload was just too heavy at the time. As far as I am concerned, most people my age became myopic at about the same age as me and for the same reason. Things don't seem to have improved. A 2016 report by the World Health Organization showed that with 600 million nearsighted people - almost half the population - China has the world's highest rate of adolescent myopia. More than 70 percent of high school and college students and almost 40 percent of primary school students have problems with their eyesight. Li Aoyu, chief ophthalmologist at the Eyecare Beaucare Clinic, a private hospital in Beijing's Chaoyang district, has worked as an optometrist for decades. In recent years, he has noticed a change in the age of the patients coming to see him. Primary school students now account for at least one-third of my patients. It's an obvious rise. he said. There were not so many before. Wang Ningli, director of the Ophthalmological Center at Beijing Tongren Hospital, a public hospital renowned for eye treatment, has also noticed the trend. More children are developing myopia at an earlier age. Some are already nearsighted, even though they are only 5 or 6 years old, he said. rubber band wristband makerpersonalized gold cuff braceletnew rubber band braceletsdual layer wristbandsentry wristbands for events<%2fcenter>
