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Annual Technical Report of WHO Collaborating Center (WHO CC) for Traditional Medicine § This is for information sharing among WHO CCs for Traditional Medicine only. It DOES NOT replace the annual progress report required by WHO. § Please include information during the 12 months of the respective calendar year stated below. Year of Report: _2007 Information on the WHO Collaborating Centers: * this information is open to the public through WHO website *Ref. number | CHN-36 | *General Information | Currently registered in WHO database* | Please describe new information if any changes occurred during this reporting period | *Name of the Institution | Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine | Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine | *Name of the Director | Dr WU Mianhua | Prof. Wu Mianhua | *Address | 282 Hanzhong Roa, Jiangsu Province, 210029, Nanjing, China | 138 Xianlin Rd., Nanjing 210046, P. R.China | *Phone | (86-25) 8679 8243 | (86-25) 85811117 | *Fax | (86-25) 8679 8078 | (86-25) 85811117 | *E-mail | tcm_liu@yahoo.com |
| *Website | http://www.njutcm.edu.cn |
| Communication focal point with WHO/TRM/HQ | Currently designated person | Please describe new information if any changes occurred during this reporting period | Name | Dr LIU Qin |
| Title | Deputy Director, Department of International Cooperation and Exchange |
| E-mail | tcm_liu@yahoo.com |
| Phone | + 86-25-85811080 |
| Fax | + 86-25-85811078 |
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Education and Training Activities (including postgraduate research training)
| Type of Activities | Subjects | International Activities | Domestic Activities | Y/N | Number of Countries attending | Number of Students (Total) | Y/N | Number of Students (Total) e.g. UG 200 , MSc 100, PhD 10, Postdoc 10, others 27 | Duration of Training e.g. UG-5yrs, MSc-3 yrs | Herbal medicines (including animal and mineral materials) | Y | Short-term 3 Long-term 2 | Total 27 Short-term 25 Long-term 2 | Y | Total 464 UG 389 , MSc 64, PhD 11 | UG-5 yrs, MSc-3 yrs, PhD-3yrs,Postdoc-2 yrs | Traditional medicine (please specify the name of traditional medicine) | Y | Short-term 5 Long-term 6 | Total 133 Short-term 52 Long-term 81 | Y | Total 1270 UG 917 , MSc 294,PhD 58, Postdoc 1 | UG-5 yrs, MSc-3 yrs, PhD-3yrs,Postdoc-2 yrs | Homoeopathy | N |
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| Acupuncture | Y | Short-term 17 Long-term 4 | Total 234 Short-term 226 Long-term 8 | Y | Total 80 UG 66 , MSc 8, PhD 6 | UG-5 yrs, MSc-3 yrs, PhD-3yrs,Postdoc-2 yrs | Manual therapies | Chiropractic | N |
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| Osteopathy | Y | Short-term 1 | Short-term 20 | N |
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| Tuina | Y | Short-term 8 | Short-term 89 | N |
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| Others (Please specify) | N |
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| Others (Such as Yoga, Taiji, Spiritual Therapies) Please specify | Qi Gong | Y | Short-term 1 | Short-term 4 | N |
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** This page of the form may be modified as needed by individual institutions.
Research Activities For research projects that last more than one year, annual progress including outcomes of research, such as publications should be provided. List term(s) related to research according to the current terms of reference | List research projects with very brief description on this year’s main progress/achievement on research If the research project lasts more than one year, please indicate with an * and give the duration of the research project as a footnote | International Cooperating Research | Y/N | List the cooperating countries including WHO CCs | 1. To carry out clinical and experimental studies on the safety and efficacy on TCM in the treatment of difficultdiseases. | Project 1 Research in Integrated TCM with Western Medicine Diagnosis and Treatment Guidelines and Efficacy Assessment Standards for Common Paediatric Diseases, having established eleven TCM diagnosis and treatment common practice, including diseases of pneumonia, asthma, diarrhoea, anorexia, kidney disease syndromes, etc., as well as the ancient literature data base of TCMPaediatrics. This research work is carried out as planned. | N |
| Project 2 Working out TCM and Integrated TCM with Western Medicine Treatment Guidelines for Epidemic Encephalitis B, Epidemic Hemorrhagic Fever and Dengue Fever, which is to complete by December 2008. | N |
| Project 3 Research in the Comprehensive TCM Treatment and Prevention of Diabetes and its Main Complication, TCM Intervention of Ulcerative Colitis and its Efficacy Assessment, and demonstrating studies on the Principle of Diagnosis and Treatment of Clinical Chronic Kidney Disease are all carried out smoothly as planned. | N |
| Project 4 Research on the Development of Three General Techniques for Pharmaceutics of TCM is carried out smoothly, achieving certain general techniques, such as removal method of pyrogen and allergen in the preparation of TCM injection, microfiltration technology of inorganic membranes in the refinement of TCM, etc. | N |
| 2. To carry out clinical research on acupuncture and moxibustion in treating gerontal and difficult diseases. | Project 5 Clinical Research on the Influence of Acupuncture on Tears Secretion of Menopause Xerophthalma is completed. Clinical treatment indicate that acupuncture did boost tears secretion, prolong the tear membrane break time and help keratopathy restoration with obvious improvement ( P< 0.05 ), finding out the new treatment with distinctive TCM characteristics for the disease ofmenopause xerophthalma. | N |
| Project 6 Research in the Function of Electro-Acupuncture on the Spinal Cord NMDA Receptor- NO- cGMP Signal Transmission Path of Rat with Neuropathologic Pain is carried out smoothly as planned. This research indicate that through regulating relevant passages of the NMDA receptor-NO-cGMP Signal Transmission Path of pathologic rat, acupuncture treatment may improve the pain adjustment system of the spinal cord so as to achieve pain-removing. | N |
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Support to WHO Activities Categories of support to WHO Activities | Support provided | Title of draft documents on which you sent comments to WHO | 1. WHO draft guidelines on Basic Training and Safety in Thai Traditional Massage 2. WHO draft guidelines on Basic Training and Safety in Tuina ( Chinese Remedial Massage ) | WHO Consultancies (such as WHO Short-term Consultant; WHO Temporary Adviser; Member of WHO Expert Advisory Panel) |
| Times attended a WHO Meeting/Consultation (both self-supported and funded by WHO) | 2 | Times hosted a WHO Meeting |
| Other activities WHO requested | Information sharing with other partner | Y/N | N | Provision of technical advisory supports | Number of experts sent at WHO’s request |
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