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Acupuncture Today Celebrates 50 years of Traditional Medicine in Vietnam

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The National Hospital of Traditional Medicine in Hanoi, Vietnam, will mark its 50th anniversary with this year's scientific conference June 6 through June 7. The Hanoi conference will be comprised of more than 400 scientists, professors, medical doctors and speakers from China, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Canada, Italy and, of course, Vietnam. The main topic of the event, "Integrative Medicine in Community Health Care," will cover the general orientation of research and development of integrative medicine; research on products and research in therapeutic methods for chronic diseases, as well as newly emerging diseases.

July 2007
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