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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: ______2009______ 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 | http://ice.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 |
| Fax | +86 25 8581 1078 |
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| 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 | Long-term 1 | Long-term 1 |
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| Traditional medicine (please specify the name of traditional medicine): Traditional Chinese Medicine | Y | Total 21 Short-term 9 Long-term 12 | Total 140 Short-term 50 Long-term 90 |
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| Homoeopathy | N |
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| Acupuncture | Y | Total 25 Short-term 16 Long-term 9 | Total 239 Short-term 208 Long-term 31 |
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| Manual therapies | Chiropractic | N |
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| Osteopathy | N |
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| Tuina | Y | Short-term 3 | Short-term 12 |
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| Others (such as Yoga, Taiji, spiritual therapies) please specify | Qi Gong | Y | Short-term 6 | Short-term 7 |
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** This page may be modified as needed by individual institutions. *** The above is the number of students indicated refers to the 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, research in 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 is completed. | 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. | 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. The second batch of medicine, case history records have been distributed to each research center. Inspections at different levels and joint inspections have been conducted for several times. Four related papers have been published. | N |
| e.g. Project 4 Research on TCM Intervention of Ulcerative Colitis and its Efficacy Assessment is continuously carried out as planned. At present 49 patients in affiliated hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, 47 patients in affiliated hospital of Capital MedicalUniversity, 72 patients in the first affiliated hospital of Henan University of TCM, and 21 patients in affiliated hospital of Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine have been tested. One related paper has been published. | 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. | N |
| e.g. Project 6 Research on the Development of Three General Techniques for Pharmaceutics of TCM is drawing to an end. The research work has been finished, while 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. 3 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 finished as demanded, and acceptance check is being prepared. | N |
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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) | Prof. Liu Qin has 3-month secondment to WHO General Headquarters since 01 May, 2009. | 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/N | Y | Provision of technical advisory support | Number of experts sent at WHO’s request |
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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 |
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