Eighty-four-year-old Tu Youyou arrived in Sweden on Friday to collect China's first Nobel Prize in medicine for creating an anti-malarial drug that saved millions of people across the world.
On December 10, at the Nobel Prize Award ceremony held at the Stockholm Concert Hall, China's pharmacologist Tu Youyou, 84, received her 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discovery of artemisinin, used in the treatment of malaria.
China's first ever law on traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) will help ensure sustainable development of the time-honored medical science by introducing a new vocational qualification system which is more in line with the experience-based nature of the practice.
Wang Guoqiang, director of the State Administration of TCM, said Monday morning at the session that the draft law will support and exert TCM's role in the whole medical system, bringing it into the country's free-of-charge basic public health services program.
TCM originated in ancient China and has evolved over thousands of years. TCM practitioners utilize herbal medicines and various mind and body practices, such as acupuncture and tai chi, to treat or prevent health problems.
Around 12,800 people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in southwest China's Yunnan Province have benefited from a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) project over the past decade.
The Chinese cola brand Tianfu, once the country's top-selling soft drink, will return to the market after being absent from shelves for nearly two decades, according to the producer on Thursday.
Co-founded by Shandong Drug Abuse Control Bureau and the Shandong TCM University, the TCM rehabilitation research center inaugurated on Tuesday is the first provincial level agency of its kind.
The alliance, first of the kind in the country, comprises 101 TCM institutions such as colleges, academic institutes, medical facilities, and related enterprises across the nation, according to Liu Banyan, principal researcher of the academy.
China has been promoting the modernization of TCM and has been pushing for TCM to be accepted and popular worldwide. Tu Youyou's winning the Nobel Prize with a TCM-based anti-malarial drug served as a boon to the industry.
A panel of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM) experts from Northwest China's Gansu province left for Moldova Tuesday, starting their two-year aid efforts in the country, local authorities said on Wednesday.
Spain is to host the largest traditional Chinese medicine hospital in Europe, following the signing last week of an education and clinical practice cooperation agreement between the Beijing municipal government and Spanish authorities.