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Establishing the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine

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  1. Division of Rheumatology, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, 895 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1L7, Canada itsang@arthritisresearch.ca

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  1. IKY Tsang is Clinical Professor Emeritus in the Division of Rheumatology, and Director of the Division of Traditional Chinese Medicine Research at the Arthritis Research Centre of Canada, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.,

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Tsang, I. Establishing the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine. Nat Rev Rheumatol 3, 60–61 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncprheum0406

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