美国国立卫生研究院(简称NIH),根据1991年10月参议院立法通过在NIH内设立“替代医学办公室”(The office ofAlternative Medicine)简称:OAM。国会授权这个办公室负责评估“非正规医疗手段”(包括中国的传统医学),现在将各类西医以外的所有“非正规的医疗手段”重新命名为“替代医学”。建立这个办公室的目的,就是鼓励探讨替代性医疗手段的可能性,最终的目标是将已被证明有效的非正规的其它选择与西方的正规医疗手段相结合。 最近,这个办公室已拨出资金,欢迎在以下领域提出项目申请:第一、发展合作项目:由替代医学(包括中国的传统医学)行医人员与正规医学(现代西医学)研究人员合作;第二、小规 The National Institutes of Health (NIH), according to the legislation of the Senate in October 1991, established the “Office of Alternative Medicine” (OAM) within the NIH. Congress has authorized this office to evaluate “informal medical methods” (including Chinese traditional medicine) and now renames all “informal medical methods” other than Western medicine to “alternative medicine.” The purpose of establishing this office is to encourage the possibility of exploring alternative medical measures. The ultimate goal is to combine other options that have been proved to be effective with the informal Western medical methods. Recently, this office has allocated funds and welcomes application for projects in the following areas: First, development cooperation projects: cooperation between practitioners of alternative medicine (including Chinese traditional medicine) and regular medical researchers (modern western medicine); And rules