I. Introduction For years, Western medicine treated menopause as an afterthought, or worse, a burdensome disease to be managed. Women were not even required to be included in NIH-funded clinical trials until the passage of the NIH (National Institutes of Health) Revitalization Act in 1993. In contrast, Classical Chinese Medicine has spent thousands of years […]
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