TY - JOUR
T1 - India-United States dialogue on traditional medicine
T2 - Toward collaborative research and generation of an evidence base
AU - White, Jeffrey D.
AU - O'Keefe, Barry R.
AU - Sharma, Jitendra
AU - Javed, Ghazala
AU - Nukala, Vid
AU - Ganguly, Aniruddha
AU - Khan, Ikhlas A.
AU - Kumar, Nagi B.
AU - Mukhtar, Hasan
AU - Pauli, Guido F.
AU - Walker, Larry
AU - Sivaram, Sudha
AU - Rajaraman, Preetha
AU - Trimble, Edward L.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 by American Society of Clinical Oncology
PY - 2018/3/1
Y1 - 2018/3/1
N2 - Therapies originating from traditional medical systems are widely used by patients in both India and the United States. The first India-US Workshop on Traditional Medicine was held in New Delhi, India, on March 3 and 4, 2016, as a collaboration between the Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, and Homoeopathy (AYUSH) of the Government of India, the US National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health, and the Office of Global Affairs, US Department of Health and Human Services. It was attended by Indian and US policymakers, scientists, academics, and medical practitioners from various disciplines. The workshop provided an opportunity to open a dialogue between AYUSH and NCI to identify promising research results and potential topics for Indo-US collaboration. Recommendations that emerged from the workshop underlined the importance of applying rational and scientific approaches for drug development; standardizing traditional medicine products and procedures to ensure reliability and reproducibility; promotion of collaboration between Indian traditional medicine practitioners and researchers and US researchers; greater integration of evidence-based traditional medicine practices with mainstream medical practices in India; and development of training programs between AYUSH and NCI to facilitate crosstraining. Several positive developments took place after the thought-provoking deliberations.
AB - Therapies originating from traditional medical systems are widely used by patients in both India and the United States. The first India-US Workshop on Traditional Medicine was held in New Delhi, India, on March 3 and 4, 2016, as a collaboration between the Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, and Homoeopathy (AYUSH) of the Government of India, the US National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health, and the Office of Global Affairs, US Department of Health and Human Services. It was attended by Indian and US policymakers, scientists, academics, and medical practitioners from various disciplines. The workshop provided an opportunity to open a dialogue between AYUSH and NCI to identify promising research results and potential topics for Indo-US collaboration. Recommendations that emerged from the workshop underlined the importance of applying rational and scientific approaches for drug development; standardizing traditional medicine products and procedures to ensure reliability and reproducibility; promotion of collaboration between Indian traditional medicine practitioners and researchers and US researchers; greater integration of evidence-based traditional medicine practices with mainstream medical practices in India; and development of training programs between AYUSH and NCI to facilitate crosstraining. Several positive developments took place after the thought-provoking deliberations.
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U2 - 10.1200/JGO.17.00099
DO - 10.1200/JGO.17.00099
M3 - Article
C2 - 30241135
AN - SCOPUS:85060558350
SN - 2378-9506
VL - 2018
SP - 1
EP - 10
JO - Journal of Global Oncology
JF - Journal of Global Oncology
IS - 4
ER -