title: East meets West: current issues relevant to integrating Chinese medicine.
abstract: This article describes the challenges that integration of Chinese medicine (CM) and biomedicine are likely to bring for improving safety, research, education, and cross-disciplinary communication. Potential strategies to meet these challenges are suggested, including the use of accessible language for the Western biomedical community, and further development of whole-system randomized controlled trials that support individualized treatment approaches.
authors.affiliation: Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, 6/F, William MW Mong Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR, China. ewong206@hku.hk.
authors.forename: Emily Yen
authors.initials: EY
authors.lastname: Wong
authors.forename: Barak
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Gaster
authors.forename: Sum Ping
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Lee