Evidence-based Research Methods for Chinese Medicine

Editor Siu-wai Leung is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal: Chinese Medicine. He and Associate Professor Hao Hu are from Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences, University of Macau.

• Methodology for clinical studies on traditional Chinese medicine.- Placebo controlled trials in acupuncture: problems and solutions.- Effectiveness assessment of Chinese medicine in clinical research.- Network meta-analysis of Chinese medicine clinical research.- Informatics for molecular authentication of Chinese medicinal material.- Chinese medicine in pharmacological research of neurological diseases.- Chinese medicine drug development for menopause.- Chinese medicine proteins and peptides isolated from Chinese medicines.- Proteomics response fingerprinting (ProRef) for rapid identification of protein targets for traditional Chinese medicine .- Integrating multiple “omics” analysis for Chinese medicine research and development.- Standard data collection procedures in studies on Chinese medicine.- Statistical methods for assessment of inter-rater reliability for Chinese medicine diagnosis.- New research practices for reducing biases and errors in research.- Ethical research practices that are often overlooked and ill-reported.