Traditional Chinese medicine's challenge to clinical science and health policy

Abstract

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been improving human health for millennia. And for that, it has gradually gained the attention of the global scientific community. TCM clinical research progresses, but slowly. I see it as being held back by perverse incentive structures in science and regulatory politics.

Keywords

• clinical research
• policy
• principal–agent problem
• statistical significance
• traditional chinese medicine