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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe To help to integrate traditional Asian medicine with Western medicine (S. Cameron _et al_. _Nature_ 482, 35; 2012), the World Health
Organization (WHO) is developing common systems for collecting statistics from both. This information — known as the International Classification of Traditional Medicine (see
go.nature.com/mv3iux) — is being incorporated into a revision of the WHO International Classification of Diseases, to be released in 2015. Clean, standardized data from several countries
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PERMISSIONS Reprints and permissions ABOUT THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE Watanabe, K., Zhang, X. & Choi, SH. Asian medicine: A way to compare data. _Nature_ 482, 162 (2012).
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