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“Hello, Clarice—have the lambs stopped screaming?” I will not be surprised if your answer is both yes and no. For now the lambs will not scream again. But, Clarice, you measure yourself by the standards of that dungeon, and one must not measure oneself too…

According to an AFP report from Washington, a child in the United States with a rare disease has become the world’s first patient to receive personalized CRISPR gene-editing therapy. A medical team from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania successfully applied a…

Most end-stage cancer patients inevitably face the question of how to spend their final days: professional medical care in a hospital or nursing facility, or home care, spending the last days at home? The choice depends on personal wishes and family finances. In practice, most…

Prof. Wang Peng is an internal medicine professor, chief physician, and doctoral supervisor at Hubei University of Chinese Medicine. In May 1984 he admitted a patient with abdominal tympanites (ascites); the outcome was excellent and the approach distinctive. The case is reproduced below: Patient Peng,…

The American chemist Linus Carl Pauling (February 28, 1901 – August 19, 1994) was perhaps the earliest practitioner of high-dose vitamin supplementation in science. Pauling was one of the most respected scientists of the twentieth century and won the Nobel Prize twice. His research spanned…

Formula 1: Yiqi Ziyin Jiedu Tang (Qi-Boosting, Yin-Nourishing, Toxin-Detoxifying Decoction) Composition: Sheng Huangqi (raw Astragali Radix) 30 g, Daqingye (Isatidis Folium) 30 g, Baihuasheshecao (Hedyotidis Herba) 30 g, Yiyiren (Coicis Semen) 30 g, Xuanshen (Scrophulariae Radix) 15 g, Shengdi (Rehmanniae Radix) 15 g, Mudanpi (Moutan…

After a little over a month of trade frictions, the first round of talks between the two sides produced satisfactory results, and the degree of de-escalation surprised many observers. Still, it was within my expectations; in an article I wrote a month earlier, I reasoned…

An elderly relative at home mentioned some time ago that her hearing had declined noticeably, with tinnitus and deafness. Because she lives far away, I could not tell what was causing the symptoms, so I told her to go to the ENT department of the…

“Feishi Daishen Wan” is recorded in the Ding Ganren Jiachuan Zhenfang Xuan (Selected Family-Transmitted Precious Formulas of Ding Ganren); it is a pain-relieving formula. Ding Ganren was a towering figure of modern Chinese medicine, ranked alongside Shi Jinmo; any formula selected into that collection was…

As I have grown older, my temperament has become more and more easygoing. Perhaps because sex hormones no longer surge as they did in youth, or perhaps because I have seen more of the world, I have gradually taken everything more lightly. Fewer things irritate…