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Academy, WHO standardize medical terms

Terminologies of traditional medicine should no longer be lost in translation. The world's first document listing international standard terminologies of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) was jointly launched in Beijing yesterday by the ... ...full story at People's Daily

from People's Daily on Wed, Oct 17 2007

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