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Annual Technical Report of WHO Collaborating Centers (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 for the 12 months of the calendar year stated below. Year of Report: ______2010______ Information on WHO Collaborating Centers: * this information is open to the public through the 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 Institution | Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine | | *Name of Director | Professor Mianhua Wu | | *Address | 138 Xianlin Road - 210046 Jiangsu Province, 210046 Jiangsu Province, Nanjing, China | | *Phone | +86 25 8581 1117 | | *Fax | +86 25 8581 1117 | | *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 8581 1080 | +86 25 8581 1200 | Fax | +86 25 8581 1078 | |
| 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) | N | | | | | | Traditional medicine (please specify the name of traditional medicine): Traditional Chinese Medicine | Y | Total 20 Short-term 4 Long-term 16 | Total 149 Short-term 57 Long-term 92 | | | | Homoeopathy | N | | | | | | Acupuncture | Y | Total 28 Short-term 18 Long-term 10 | Total 204 Short-term 183 Long-term 21 | | | | Manual therapies | Chiropractic | N | | | | | | Osteopathy | N | | | | | | Tuina | Y | Short-term 3 | Short-term 22 | | | | Others (please specify) | | | | | | | Others (such as Yoga, Taiji, spiritual therapies) please specify | Qi Gong | Y | Short-term 2 | Short-term 20 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
** This page may be modified as needed by individual institutions. *** clarify whether the number of students indicated refers to the total number or to newly recruited students only.
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 giving a very brief description on this year’s main progress/achievements on research For research projects of 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 initiate the research, formulation and promotion of the diagnosis and treatment standards for traditional medicine as well as acupuncture and moxibustion. | e.g. Project 1 Through literature research and Questionnaire Survey, the Integrated TCM with Western Medicine Diagnosis and Treatment Guidelines and Efficacy Assessment Standards for 40 types of Common Paediatric Diseases including pneumonia, asthma, alvine flux, anorexia, and nephrotic syndrome has been completed, thus providing the common assessment standards for treating the above diseases by the Integrated TCM with Western Medicine. | N | | e.g. Project 2 TCM and Integrated TCM with Western Medicine Treatment Guidelines for infectious diseases such as Epidemic Encephalitis B, Epidemic Hemorrhagic Fever and Dengue Fever are completed. Currently, Guidelines for other infectious diseases are to establish. | N | | 2. To carry out studies on the safety, efficacy and quality control of traditional medicine. | e.g. Project 3 Research in the Comprehensive TCM Treatment and Prevention of Diabetes and its Main Complications is carried out as planned. Altogether 240 high-risk diabetes patients were included in the clinical preventive treatment, with all the cases put into groups.The follow-up observation of cases has been completed, and 5 related papers have been published until late December this year. | N | | e.g. Project 4 Research on TCM Intervention of Ulcerative Colitis and its Efficacy Assessment is continuously carried out as planned. TCM Intevention of Ulcerative Colitis is to develop the treatment of therapeutic effectiveness and characteristics of combing treatment in different stages with treatment of syndrome differentiation.Up till now, more than 176 cases has been collected and put into the data base. | N | | e.g. Project 5 Demonstrating Study on the Principle of Diagnosis and Treatment of Clinical Chronic Kidney Disease is carried out as planned. The seminar has collected 180 cases: 60 from Jiangsu Province Hospital of TCM, 30 from Guangdong Hospital of TCM, 48 from Zhujiang Hospital of Southern Medical University, and 42 from Xinqiao Hospital attached to The Fourth Military Medical University. The blinded data review report is completed, one related paper is published and four graduates are cultivated. | N | | e.g. Project 6 The project is drawing to an end, all the research has been finished, and the experimental statistics are being finally summarized. Basically, technical indicators are satisfactory, and problems in the process of research have been approached already. | N | | 3. To carry out clinical and experimental studies on the application of acupuncture and moxibustion in the prevention and treatment of diseases. | e.g. Project 7 Clinical Research on the Influence of Acupuncture on Tears Secretion of Menopause Xerophthalma is completed. Three related papers were published. Results indicate that acupuncture does boost tears secretion, prolong the tear membrane break time and help keratopathy restoration with obvious improvement.
| N | | e.g. Project 8 Clinical studies on Electro-Acupuncture in the treatment of moderate depression is completed as planned. | N | |
Support to WHO Activities in HQ and Regions Activities which have been included in the terms of reference Categories of support to WHO activities | Support provided and outcome | Title of draft documents on which comments were sent to WHO | | WHO consultancies (such as WHO short-term consultant; WHO temporary adviser; member of WHO Expert Advisory Panel) | | Occasions on which WHO meeting/consultations were attended (both self-supported and funded by WHO) | 1 | Occasions on which your institution hosted a WHO Meeting | | Other activities requested by WHO | Information sharing with other partners | Y | Holding 2010 Nanjing International Forum on TCM and Acupuncturefrom December 11 to 12, 2010, setting up the platform for academic exchange in Acupuncture and its related areas with other partners. | Provision of technical advisory support | Number of experts sent at WHO’s request | | Others (please specify) | |
Additional special activities/projects carried out in relation to WHO's renewed priority areas in HQ and Regions List related activities/projects | List projects giving a very brief description of this year’s main progress/achievements For projects of more than one year, please indicate with an * and give the duration of the activity/project as a footnote | International cooperation of the activity/project | Project 1 | | | Project 2 | | | Project 3 | | | | | | | | | | | |
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