Recently the World Health Organization published their guidelines on traditional medicine, actually referring to the category of "traditional, complementary and integrative medicine (TCIM) practices.

Treatment with five-fraction SBRT for prostate cancer may be more convenient than receiving traditional radiation therapy techniques, an expert said. For patients with low- to intermediate-risk ...

Poisons today typically evoke notions of harm and danger — the opposite of medicines for healing. Yet traditional Chinese medicine, which has been in practice for over two millennia, used a large ...

Traditional Chinese medicine predates most Western medical techniques. While some treatments yield little more than a placebo effect, others confer benefits. Here are a handful of Chinese medicine ...

Laser gum surgery offers a minimally invasive alternative to traditional scalpel-based procedures, significantly reducing ...

Mongolian shamans beat wicker drums to summon ancestral spirits. A Peruvian man in a headdress unleashes a piercing ululation ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Health representatives from more than 70 countries gathered in Beijing on Friday to swap ideas on how to make traditional medicine, ranging from acupuncture to leech treatment, ...

A new robot-assisted nipple-conserving mastectomy is “not very different” in terms of patient experiences versus the traditional procedure. A new technology is being evaluated in the breast cancer ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Yan Liu, University at Buffalo (THE CONVERSATION) Poisons today typically evoke ...