The World Health Organization's Decision About Traditional Chinese Medicine Could Backfire, a news feature published in Nature in 2019, reports on the criticism from scientists over the World Health Organization's ICD-11 diagnostic system including, for the first time, a chapter of Traditional Chinese Medicine diagnostic categories. As a news feature in a leading scientific journal, it accurately reports the scientific community's documented concerns at the time, drawing on named critics and the WHO's own stated reasoning. It is a report on the controversy rather than an independent clinical assessment of Traditional Chinese Medicine's efficacy, which needs separate clinical-evidence sourcing.
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The World Health Organization's Decision About Traditional Chinese Medicine Could Backfire, a news feature published in Nature in 2019, the middle tier reflecting that as a news feature in a leading scientific journal it accurately reports the scientific community's documented concerns over the WHO's ICD-11 inclusion of Traditional Chinese Medicine diagnostic categories, drawing on named critics and the WHO's own stated reasoning, notwithstanding that it reports on the controversy rather than independently assessing Traditional Chinese Medicine's clinical efficacy. NotesCoverage and scientist criticism of ICD-11's new traditional medicine chapter, first to include Traditional Chinese Medicine diagnostic categories.
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