Traditional Chinese Medicine Meets Evidence-Based Medicine in the Acutely Infarcted Heart
Release Date: 10/24/2023
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info_outlineJAMA Executive Editor Gregory Curfman, MD, speaks with Richard G. Bach, MD, professor of medicine and medical director of the cardiac intensive care unit at the Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, about the use of traditional Chinese medicine to treat patients with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction.
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